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 Sometimes it is just about fooling around. A few people have been mentioning that some of my recent pictures might work well in B&W so this evening I just picked one and started fooling around with it. This is another from the Oakwood Rural Cemetery in the City of Troy, NY. The things that interests the archaeologist in me is the transition of stone styles through time. The dominate style in this section of the cemetery are the large obelisks. Some may think these were done in imitation of the Washington Manument, erected during the mid 19th Century. While the graves also come from that general period, it is probably more correct to find the roots of both the grave stones and the Washington Monument in the fascination of the 19th century in the archaeological investigations going on in Egypt. In fact, it was during this same general time period that two such obelisks, called Cleopatra's Needles were delivered to London and New York City. So we see in this image, how persistent this symbol became. | |
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