Tag: memorials

1928 memorial ideas to dress up the family plot so it can be fashionable too. Imagery from a promotional booklet put out by the Georgia Marble Company of Tate, Georgia entitled “Memorials: To-Day for To-Morrow.” It was written by William Henry Deacy.

Title page. Image 5 of Memorials Today for To-Morrow, written in 1928 by William Henry Deacy for the Georgia Marble Company. American. Collections of the Columbia University Libraries. In the public domain due to age. via https://archive.org/details/memorialstodayfo00deac/page/n4/mode/1up
Eloquence (garden bench). Image 13 of Memorials Today for To-Morrow, written in 1928 by William Henry Deacy for the Georgia Marble Company. American. Collections of the Columbia University Libraries. In the public domain due to age. via https://archive.org/details/memorialstodayfo00deac/page/n12/mode/1up
Modest (tablet). Image 19 of Memorials Today for To-Morrow, written in 1928 by William Henry Deacy for the Georgia Marble Company. American. Collections of the Columbia University Libraries. In the public domain due to age. via https://archive.org/details/memorialstodayfo00deac/page/n18/mode/1up
Joy (column monument). Image 37 of Memorials Today for To-Morrow, written in 1928 by William Henry Deacy for the Georgia Marble Company. American. Collections of the Columbia University Libraries. In the public domain due to age. via https://archive.org/details/memorialstodayfo00deac/page/n36/mode/1up
Virtue (Greek stele). Image 30 of Memorials Today for To-Morrow, written in 1928 by William Henry Deacy for the Georgia Marble Company. American. Collections of the Columbia University Libraries. In the public domain due to age. via https://archive.org/details/memorialstodayfo00deac/page/30/mode/1up
Sympathy (bird bath). Image 55 of Memorials Today for To-Morrow, written in 1928 by William Henry Deacy for the Georgia Marble Company. American. Collections of the Columbia University Libraries. In the public domain due to age. via https://archive.org/details/memorialstodayfo00deac/page/30/mode/1up
Divine (altar tomb). Image 66 of Memorials Today for To-Morrow, written in 1928 by William Henry Deacy for the Georgia Marble Company. American. Collections of the Columbia University Libraries. In the public domain due to age. via https://archive.org/details/memorialstodayfo00deac/page/n66/mode/1up
Purity (urn). Image 73 of Memorials Today for To-Morrow, written in 1928 by William Henry Deacy for the Georgia Marble Company. American. Collections of the Columbia University Libraries. In the public domain due to age. via https://archive.org/details/memorialstodayfo00deac/page/n72/mode/1up
Heaven (shaft). Image 91 of Memorials Today for To-Morrow, written in 1928 by William Henry Deacy for the Georgia Marble Company. American. Collections of the Columbia University Libraries. In the public domain due to age. via https://archive.org/details/memorialstodayfo00deac/page/n90/mode/1up

I find most of these down some tangent or other but this turned up as part of a post on the blog https://gravelyspeaking.com/2024/07/13/acroterion/. I think the blogger is a funeral director. I think the watercolors are pretty and I hope you agree. At least where I am bronze plaques are the standard thing but eventually perhaps it will shift back to these and the Victorian statuary that preceded it.