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FIG. 1. ELIZABETH CUSHION HEAD- FIG 10. NATHANIEL RICHARDSON FIG. 2. ISRAEL WALKER STONE. 
STONE. STONE. Gianary Burial Groinnl. Boston. 
Granary Burying- Ground. Boston. Mass. Charter St.. Buryin.g Ground. Salem. Mass. 
MONUMENTAL ART in old COLONIAL HEADSTONES 
In the study of our early monumental 
traditions, the more important old his- 
torical burial grounds have offered up a 
rich store of suggestion for adaptation 
and improvement, and as ever, one goes 
to Salem. Mass., as to a great storehouse 
of American antiquities, walking along 
her principal streets with admiration and 
rambling through her cemeteries with 
reverence. Each offers much food for 
fruitful study, and any antiquarian, his- 
torian, genealogist or monumental de- 
signer will be well repaid for a visit. 
Charter Street Burial Cround, the oldest 
By Fro.nk Cousins and Phil. M. Ri- 
ley. Photographs by Frank Cousins. 
in Salem, and dating back to 1637, na- 
turally surpasses all others in popular in- 
terest. From this collection two of the 
accompanying illustrations were chosen ; 
two were taken from the Granary and 
one from the King’s Chapel Burying 
Ground, Boston, and another from an old 
cemetery in Danvers. 
Our oldest stones are about twenty 
inches wide by thirty high above the 
ground, usually two inches thick, hut fre- 
quently more. Toward the end of the 
eighteenth century the height was con- 
siderably increased, although at a great 
sacrifice in good appearance and pleasing 
proportion. Sidney Perley, the eminent 
antiquary and editor of The Essc.v An- 
tiquarian. claims that most of the head- 
stones now standing that were erected 
prior to 1705 are the work of skilled Eng- 
lish stonecutters, even to the inscriptions 
which, together with the ornamentation in 
relief is very much superior to anything 
later until comparatively recent times. 
The first maker of headstones in Amer- 
ica of whose activities Mr. Perley has dis- 
covered definite proof was Robert Mulli- 
kin, of Bradford, Mass., a Scotchman, 
Fir;, 7, \NX .mMl'.sri.N HR.\D.«TD.\E. 
Kinii's Chapel Burying Ground Boston, Mas.s. 
FIG, S, H< il.LI.NGWMR'ril DdCULK H E.\ I )S'D i.\ K. 
Ghartcr St. ( '.•iiictery. Salem. Ma.s>. 
