Posted 3 months ago
NicoleJere…
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Shown is a book titled "Pictorial Forest Lawn" from Forest Lawn cemetery in California in 1944. This book was sold to visitors at the gift shop. The inside contains numerous pictures of the art and architecture at the cemetery along with detailed descriptions.
If These Shirts Could Talk: The Tantalizing Tales Behind Used Clothes
Jockeying for Position: How Boxers and Briefs Got Into Men's Pants
Gloriously Grotesque 19th-Century Pipes
In the Hot Seat: Is Your Antique Windsor a Fake?
Love at First Kite: How Pizza and Pente Led to One Oklahoman's High-Flying Obsession
Blood, Sweat, and Steel: My Afternoon with the Ace of Swords
'The Great Gatsby' Still Gets Flappers Wrong
Say Ahhh: An Oral Surgeon's Quest to Reimagine the Garage-Band Guitar
Forget TV Pickers, Meet the Real Mavericks of the Antiques World
Coveting The Craziest Cat-People Collectibles

Very beautiful image on cover by William Adolphe Bouguereau. Bouguereau's works were considered maudlin by many in my college days. I think that he enjoys greater respect today, and I think that his work has always been comforting to those who mourn.