Philadelphia Graveyards and Cemeteries (Arcadia Publishing, $19.99), the first pictorial history of the city's burial sites, traces the story of these silent cities of the dead from Philadelphia's founding until the present. Now in its third printing, Philadelphia Graveyards and Cemeteries includes chapters on Colonial and Federal graveyards; Laurel Hill Cemetery; the Woodlands; other Victorian cemeteries; neighborhood graveyards; African-American burial sites; Catholic and Jewish cemeteries; the trappings of death; and vanished cemeteries.  Author Thomas H. Keels has collected over 200 photographs, many of them rarely seen, from private collections and from Philadelphia's major museums and historical collections. Interwoven with Keels' concise yet detailed text, they create a compelling chronicle of how Philadelphians have commemorated the dead for over three centuries.

Published by Arcadia Press.

© Copyright, 2003. Thomas H. Keels