Guide to the Cathy Ambler Collection Typescript, rural cemetaries & Oak HIll Cemetary, Lawrence, Kan., 1992

Guide to the Cathy Ambler Collection

Typescript, rural cemetaries & Oak HIll Cemetary, Lawrence, Kan., 1992


COLLECTION SUMMARY
Repository:	University of Kansas Kenneth Spencer Research Library Kansas Collection 1450 Poplar Lane, Lawrence, KS 66045-7616 Phone: (785) 864 - 4334 Fax: (785) 864-5803 URL: http://spencer.lib.ku.edu rs, 28 November 1990 amh 2004
Creator:	Ambler, Cathy.
Title:	Typescript, rural cemetaries & Oak HIll Cemetary, Lawrence, Kan., 1992
Dates:	1990
Quantity:	1 v., 28 cm
Physical Description:	(various pagings), ill., maps.
Abstract:	This volume, which is divided into 3 parts, provides information concerning the development and popularity of the rural cemetery movement (or "garden cemetery movement"), the history of Oak Hill Cemetery in Lawrence, Kansas and the relationship between Oak Hill and the rural cemetery movement.
Identification:	RH MS D279

Administrative Information

PREFERRED CITATION

Cathy Ambler Collection, Kansas Collection, RH MS D279, Kenneth Spencer Research Library, University of Kansas

Acquisition Information

Gift, Cathy Ambler, 1990.

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Restrictions

RESTRICTIONS on ACCESS

None.

RESTRICTIONS on USE

Spencer Library staff may determine use restrictions dependent on the physical condition of manuscript materials.

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INDEX TERMS

Subjects:

Cemeteries-Kansas--Lawrence.

1854-1859

1860-1869

1870-1877

Cemeteries--United States.

Lawrence (Kan.) - History.

Oak Hill Cemetery (Lawrence, Kan.)--History.

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Oak Hill Cemetery was developed during the turbulent years following Quantrill's raid on the city of Lawrence. Many of the city's most prominent people have been buried there. This history provides a detailed description of the methodology used by the townspeople of Lawrence to plan a cemetery which would be considered a thing of beauty and would serve the city for years to come.

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