Alexander Gardner, A Lonely Grave, Union soldiers standing near a comrade’s grave at the battlefield of Antietam, USA, September 1862.
Source: Library of Congress
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Felix Nadar, Catacombes de Paris, 1861.
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Etienne Neurdein, The grave of Victor Hugo, Paris, 1885.
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Alfred Eisenstaedt, A young woman visiting her father’s grave in the Jewish cemetery of Weissensee, Berlin, Germany, September 1979.
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A woman visiting a grave in a cemetery. Photograph by Jack Birns. Macau, July 1949.
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Walter E. Scott’s stetson, which was dipped in glue and smothered in gold petals, resting by his rocky grave. Photograph by Loomis Dean. Death Valley, California, 1954.
A nurse holding a floral tribute stands at the grave of an elderly woman who died after a long stay at Dr. Albert Schweitzer’s hospital village. Photograph by W. Eugene Smith. Lambarene, Gabon, 1954.
