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~ ROCHESTER'S HISTORY ~
AN ILLUSTRATED TIMELINE
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VICTORIAN CEMETERY MONUMENTS
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Mount Hope Cemetery, Rochester, NY
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Standard obelisk
Shaped like a finger or ray from the sun. Egyptian in origin to represent "Ra" the giver of all life. A variation in materials is the white bronze obelisk made of cast zinc that appeared in the late 1800s, but had disappeared by the 1920s.
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