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April 1, 2024 by Mount Auburn Cemetery
Historical Collections & Archives
Overview Mount Auburn is one of the few cemeteries in the country to have preserved and cared for its records since its founding in 1831. Our collections document the beginnings…
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April 1, 2024 by Mount Auburn Cemetery
Historical Collections Overview
Search Our Collections We invite you to explore our online collections. Search for digitized images and catalogue information. Search Our Collections Collections Description More than 3,500 linear feet of records,…
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April 7, 2024 by Mount Auburn Cemetery
Photograph Collections
When photography burst upon the scene in 1839, the medium provided a new way of documenting and remembering Mount Auburn’s sacred landscape. (The earliest visual representations of the Cemetery, founded…
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January 28, 2012 by Melissa Banta Archives History
Horticulture and a Tradition of Landscape Design
Generations of landscape architects, gardeners, and horticulturalists have contributed to a continual transformation in Mount Auburn's character and design. Items from Mount Auburn's Historical Collections provide a wealth of delightful…
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March 7, 2025 by Amelia Maguire
Plucked From Earth To Bloom
Join 24-25 Artist-in-Residence Markel Uriu for a special one-day only exhibit of her original artwork, Plucked From Earth to Bloom. Plucked From Earth to Bloom is a portrait of Mount…
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March 6, 2025 by Amelia Maguire
“From Cambridge to PBS” with former AiR Roberto Mighty
In 2014, Roberto Mighty became Mount Auburn Cemetery’s first Artist-in-Residence. His AiR project earth.sky, inspired by and filmed at Mount Auburn, is an immersive multimedia meditation on life, death, ritual,…
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January 3, 2025 by Melissa Banta Archives Art History
A Mid-Century Chronicle of Mount Auburn: The Photography of Arthur Cushman Haskell
For 25 years, from 1937 to 1962, Mount Auburn Cemetery was beautifully chronicled through the eyes of Arthur Cushman Haskell. The celebrated New England architectural photographer created an extensive body…
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June 11, 2024 by Corinne Elicona
Botanists, Horticulturists, & Garden Enthusiasts of Mount Auburn
Explore Mount Auburn's landscape through the eyes of it's designers, as well as the many notable garden professionals and enthusiasts who chose their resting place here.
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May 21, 2024 by Jessica Bussmann
Summer SOLSTICE: Deep Looking Tour
Mount Auburn was designed to look like a picture and can be experienced as a series of emplaced sensations, impressions, and images. Please join Mount Auburn’s Curator of Historical Collections…
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