An Invitation to Help Transcribe Our History — From Home!
Mount Auburn is pleased to announce an exciting new transcription project that welcomes your participation in making our history more accessible. The Cemetery’s Historical Collections & Archives staff have preserved our most significant archival documents, but many of these are … Continue reading
New Document Transcription Project: Starting to Use “FromThePage” Software
Thank you for your support of Mount Auburn Cemetery and for your interest in transcribing 19th-century documents in Mount Auburn’s Historical Collections & Archives. Your work will make this important content accessible to scholars, researchers, and the public. Whether you … Continue reading
A Mid-Century Chronicle of Mount Auburn: The Photographs of Arthur Cushman Haskell
For 25 years, from 1937 to 1962, Mount Auburn Cemetery was beautifully chronicled through the eyes of photographer Arthur Cushman Haskell. The noted New England architectural photographer created an extensive body of photographs of Mount Auburn. A little known … Continue reading
The Egyptian Revival Gateway: Mount Auburn’s First Iconic Image
Among the early illustrations of Mount Auburn’s Egyptian Revival Gateway is an 1834 lithograph. Behind the image lies the story of how the majestic portal to the Cemetery both evolved and endured as the iconic, granite structure we know today. … Continue reading