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Cemeteries, Manhattan

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  • Cemeteries - Nagel Cemetery., 1925

    Cemeteries - Nagel Cemetery.

    1925

  • Cemeteries - Nagel Cemetery., 1925

    Cemeteries - Nagel Cemetery.

    1925

  • Cemeteries - Nagel Cemetery., 1925

    Cemeteries - Nagel Cemetery.

    1925

  • Cemeteries - Nagel Cemetery., 1926

    Cemeteries - Nagel Cemetery.

    1926

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Cemeteries - Nagel Cemetery., 1926

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Cemeteries - Nagel Cemetery.

1926

Nagel Cemetery (Manhattan): Some of the remaining tombstones of the pre-Revolutionary burial ground located between Ninth and Tenth Avenues and W. 212th and W. 213th Streets, on the Harlem River. Note the contrast: symbol of the dead and the living. The inscription on the stone still standing reads: George W. Hadley Died Feb. 12th 1859. In his 81st yr. ------------------Mary R. His wife died Apr. 20th 1880 In her 100th yr. For additional data see other views. About 1925 Gift of W. Jerome Daly Secretary of Board of Transportation, City of New York

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