Chapter 6

Establishing a Visual Record

Mary J. Thornbush and Sylvia E. Thornbush

Abstract

The use of photography in research has enabled the preservation of several important features historical monuments such as headstones. This established visual record creates a gateway to studying the past in a more accessible way. Yet, these have also been used for more sentimental reasons, in the remembrance of the dead; by establishing a seriation in their use on headstones, which commence in the mid-1980s and then in the 1990s in Oxford, UK cemeteries.

Total Pages: 87-99 (13)

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