Buried Treasures
This book resurrects the stories of some 500 individuals buried in world-famous Mount Hope Cemetery, Rochester, New York. The good and the bad, the famous and the notorious, the rich and the destitute, the creative and the eccentric, the lucky and the unfortunate, are all represented on these 176 pages with mini-biographies and a pictorial kaleidoscope of Victorian funerary art. The book covers the period from the cemetery's inception in 1838. There is even a dictionary of symbols and decorative motifs used in 19th- and 20th-century gravestone design. This is a book to enhance your visit to America's first and largest municipal Victorian cemetery. It is also a book to read at your leisure about Rochester's amazing past. Inspired text by Richard O. Reisem. Stunning photographs by Frank A. Gillespie.
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Mount Hope Cemetery: America's First Municipal Cemetery
The Friends of Mount Hope have published a big, beautiful coffee table book about the cemetery. Tales of heroism, tragedy, romance, torture, achievement, suicide, adventure, pageantry, intrigue, embezzlement, weird happenings, fame, and even cannibalism are interwoven with rich, moody large duotone photographs of Rochester's world-famous cemetery. Photos by Frank A. Gillespie; text by Richard O. Reisem. Hardcover.
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