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19th Century

Years in Stone

this book and its contents are copyright © 2009 by glen kaltenbrun

an introduction

Cemeteries are among my favorite places to visit.

To a great extent, they are places of history and artistry but, for me, they are places of

untold stories and of connection to another time and place.

The stories - usually no more than hinted at on the stones - might involve infant sisters

who died eight years apart (plates 26 and 31); a person who died on that most festive of

days, Christmas; or another who left a stone with only their first name.

Nineteenth century stones is the subject of this book because that time is sufficiently

remote for lives to have been dramatically different from ours, but also close enough for

me to have had direct experience with "residents" of that century (my grandparents were

all born within fifteen years of the end of the American Civil War).

To add context, I've included an event that took place in the birth or death year in each

photograph.

This book - 19th Century Years in Stone - results from participation in the

second Solo Photo Book Month [aka SoFoBoMo] from mid-May to early June 2009.

The goal of SoFoBoMo is to produce a PDF book of at least 35 new photographs in 31

days.

BORN 1803

Ohio admitted to the union as 17th state

Santa Barbara Cemetery

PLATE 1

BORN 1804

Thomas Jefferson re-elected president

Goleta Cemetery

PLATE 2

BORN 1809

Fulton's steamboat patented

Goleta Cemetery

PLATE 3

BORN 1813

Pineapples first cultivated in Hawaii

Santa Barbara Cemetery

PLATE 4

BORN 1817

Mississippi admitted to the union as 20th state

Santa Barbara Cemetery

PLATE 5

BORN 1819

Alabama admitted to the union as 22nd state

Mission Santa Barbara Cemetery

PLATE 6

BORN 1821

Mexico gains independence from Spain

Goleta Cemetery

PLATE 7

BORN 1822

Boston incorporated as a city

Goleta Cemetery

PLATE 8

BORN 1824

Beethoven's Ninth Symphony premieres

Goleta Cemetery

PLATE 9

BORN 1825

John Quincy Adams elected 6th president

Santa Barbara Cemetery

PLATE 10

BORN 1828

Webster's dictionary first published

Santa Barbara Cemetery

PLATE 11

BORN 1832

Source of Mississippi River discovered

Santa Barbara Cemetery

PLATE 12

BORN 1832

Andrew Jackson re-elected president

Goleta Cemetery

PLATE 13

BORN 1835

First tour of P.T. Barnum's circus

Mission Santa Barbara Cemetery

PLATE 14

BORN 1835

Horse shoe manufacturing machine patented

Goleta Cemetery

PLATE 15

BORN 1850

San Francisco & Los Angeles incorporated as cities

Goleta Cemetery

PLATE 16

BORN 1851

Melville's Moby Dick published

Goleta Cemetery

PLATE 17

DIED 1851

Yosemite Valley discovered

Mission Santa Barbara Cemetery

PLATE 18

BORN 1860

Missouri-California Pony Express service begins

Santa Barbara Cemetery

PLATE 19

DIED 1863

Lincoln establishes the Thanksgiving holiday

Mission Santa Barbara Cemetery

PLATE 20

DIED 1867

First roller skating rink opens

Santa Barbara Cemetery

PLATE 21

DIED 1870

First hotel with indoor plumbing opens

Santa Barbara Cemetery

PLATE 22

BORN 1871

President U.S. Grant re-elected

Mission Santa Barbara Cemetery

PLATE 23

DIED 1876

First running of the Kentucky Derby

Goleta Cemetery

PLATE 24

DIED 1877

Thomas Edison makes first sound recording

Santa Barbara Cemetery

PLATE 25

BORN & DIED 1880

First Woolworth's 5 and 10 Cent Store opens

Santa Barbara Cemetery

PLATE 26

DIED 1882

Gilbert and Sullivan's Iolanthe premieres

Santa Barbara Cemetery

PLATE 27

DIED 1883

Brooklyn Bridge opens

Santa Barbara Cemetery

PLATE 28

DIED 1883

First Wild West Show presented

Santa Barbara Cemetery

PLATE 29

DIED 1885

First cafeteria opens

Santa Barbara Cemetery

PLATE 30

BORN & DIED 1888

George Eastman registers the name Kodak

Santa Barbara Cemetery

PLATE 31

DIED 1889

Eiffel Tower completed

Goleta Cemetery

PLATE 32

DIED 1891

Spam meat product is introduced

Santa Barbara Cemetery

PLATE 33

DIED 1892

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes published

Goleta Cemetery

PLATE 34

BORN 1896

X-rays discovered

Santa Barbara Cemetery

PLATE 35

DIED 1899

First evaporated milk processed

Goleta Cemetery

PLATE 36

finis