Identifier: americanannualof3334newy (find matches)
Title: The American annual of photography
Year: 1919 (1910s)
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Subjects: Photography
Publisher: New York : Tennant and Ward
Contributing Library: Harold B. Lee Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University

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dge in The Witching Hour boastedof the painting which he had smuggled over in the top of histrunk. At any rate, it is too decidedly sub-rosa for mention inthe British Formulary. You stroll into a cemetery on a sunny day through the onlyentrance that is open to the public, your F P K in the pocketfarthest from the little house where the watchman sits. If heis sunning himself before the door you may hand him a cigar,and pass a remark that will throw him completely off hisguard. In this way you may even make him an unwittingaccomplice and get a direction that will save you much fruitlesstravel. But the safest plan is to let him alone and take yourchances of finding the grave you want. I did this, and spentthe better part of a day tramping up hill and down dale in thegreat Forest Lawn Cemetery in Buffalo trying to locate thegrave of Millard Fillmore, and finally came away picturelessbut undetected. The plan has its drawbacks. Photographing the graves of the Presidents is good practice. 90
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BUFFALO BILLS GRAVE,LOOKOUT MOUNTAIN, COLORADO. GEORGE STEELE SEYMOUR. 91 A few of them are known to every schoolboy—Washington atMount Vernon, Lincolns impressive column at Springfield andGrants Tomb on Riverside Drive, New York. Garfields-tower in the cemetery at Cleveland is well known throughoutthe middle west. Jefferson rests under a plain shaft at hisbeloved Monticello, and Jackson is at home at the Hermitage,Nashville. Madison and Monroe are both buried at Richmond.Another town that harbors two Presidents is Quincy, Mass.,-where both the Adamses are laid away within a stones throwof the two quaint old houses that were their birthplaces. NewYork State honors five within its bounds—Grant, Fillmore,Arthur in the Rural Cemetery at Albany, Van Buren in the oldchurchyard at Kinderhook and Roosevelt, the latest, at OysterBay. Cleveland is the only President interred in New Jersey,at Princeton. He was born at Caldwell in the same State, in alittle cottage that I have often seen. Mc

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