Days Gone By

Eduard Spelterini, The necropolis (“city of the dead”) where the Sultans are buried, Cairo, Egypt, January 1904.

Zumurrud Khatun Tomb (1200 CE.), in a cemetery in Baghdad, Iraq, October 1932.

Source: G. Eric and Edith Matson Photograph Collection, Library of Congress

Russell Lee, Llano de San Juan, New Mexico, Catholic Church, 1940.

Source: Library of Congress

Pascal Sebah, A Turkish cemetery, ca. 1880s.

Alfred Eisenstaedt, A young woman visiting her father’s grave in the Jewish cemetery of Weissensee, Berlin, Germany, September 1979.

Michael Rougier, A view of the grave of gangster Al Capone, Chicago, Illinois, USA, February 1959.

Tombstones in the quicksilver mining town of Terlingua. Photograph by Carl Mydans. Terlingua, Texas, USA, 1939.

A Coast Guardsman bowing in reverence over the marked graves of American soldiers who gave their lives to win a small atoll during World War II, 1944.

Photograph by Andreas Feininger. Southern United States, May 1942.

A woman visiting a grave in a cemetery. Photograph by Jack Birns. Macau, July 1949.