Historic Gravestones and Memorials

A collection of ancient gravestones showcasing intricate carvings and inscriptions in various cemeteries, framed by natural surroundings and historical significance.

Lithuania, Vilnius-area, Paneriai, Paneriu memorialas, site of the Nazi deathcamp in World War Two where most of the Jews of Vilnius were massacred, memorial marker

Gravestone, Old Jewish Cemetery, Winterberg, Vlotho, Herford district, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, Europe

In the misty swamp 100 feet from this water spring, according to tradition, King Philip was gunned down and fell to his death on August 12, 1676 ending the Indian war. Mount Hope, RI

Head stone, Park Street , Cemeteries, Tombs & sepulchral monuments, Granary Burying Ground Boston, Mass.. Edmund L. Mitchell Collection

Theodore Roosevelt's Grave, Youngs Memorial Cemetery, Oyster Bay, New York, USA, 1922

Head stone, Park Street , Cemeteries, Tombs & sepulchral monuments, Granary Burying Ground Boston, Mass.. Edmund L. Mitchell Collection

Here ended the pilgrimage of John Howland who died Feb. 23, 1672/3, aged about 80 years , Tombs & sepulchral monuments, Howland, John, 1592-1672. Leon Abdalian Collection

Memorial Stone with the Inscription, intended forever, what happened to us, 1945 1990, at the Majoratsut in Großhartmannsdorf, Saxony, Germany

John Brown's grave at North Elba, New York, 1896

Tomb of the son Wilhelm 1794-1803 of Wilhelm von Humboldt 1767-1835

Lithuania, Vilnius-area, Paneriai, Paneriu memorialas, site of the Nazi deathcamp in World War Two where most of the Jews of Vilnius were massacred, memorial marker

Coronado Trail Scenic Byway - Coronado Trail Historical Marker. Surrounded by spring greenery, this marker stands near Hannagan's Meadow commemorating the 1926 opening of the Coronado Trail, the U.S.'s 1st Federal Aid Highway. Location: Hannagan's Meadow, Arizona

Buttenhausen Jewish cemetery, gravestone, mazewa, matzevah, matzewa, Hebrew script, memorial, Jewish history, protected cultural monument on the northern slope of the Muehlberg forest, Muensingen-Buttenhausen, Baden-Wuerttemberg, Germany, Europe

Plaque in memory of the partisans who fell in battle against the Nazi-fascists. Monte dell'Uccelliera. Maceglia Pass. Abetone. Pistoia mountains. Pistoia. Tuscany. Italy. Europe

Gedenkstein Den Gründer und Förderern des Thüringer Wintersport Oberhof 1905-1930 im Sommer 2022, Memorial stone to the founders and supporters of Thuringian winter sports Oberhof 1905-1930 in summer 2022

Jewish gravestone of the 18th century, historical Jewish cemetery, Franconia, Bavaria, Germany, Europe

Old Jewish Cemetery in Wroclaw

Revolutionary War graves in old cemetery near Concord, MA

Graveyard at Thornton Gore in Thornton, New Hampshire USA. Thornton Gore was an old hill farm community abandoned in the 19th century

Dublin, Co Dublin, Ireland, Thomas Davis' Grave At Mount Jerome Cemetery

Breezy Point Point Road Cemetery in Warren, New Hampshire during the summer months.

Gravestone for Betsy Ross in The Betsy Ross House on East Third Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Ardennes, Sedan, France, Europe

Breezy Point Point Road Cemetery in Warren, New Hampshire during the summer months.

Canada, Nova Scotia, Halifax. Fairview Lawn Cemetery, Titanic grave sites.

Headstone at historic CLD Burying Ground, Cambridge, MA

Grab Wolfgang Hilbig, Dorotheenstaedtischer Friedhof, Chausseestrasse, Mitte, Berlin, Deutschland

Keadue, Co Roscommon, Ireland, Turlough O'carolan Grave, Harper, Composer, Poet And Singer

USA, New England, Massachusetts, Boston, Granary Burying Ground, Paul Revere, headstone

Kleist grave, Bismarckstrasse, Wannsee, Steglitz-Zehlendorf, Berlin, Kleist grave, Germany, Europe

Large Queens to See Marriage Register -- Princess Elizabeth Wedding bouquet of white orchids decorating the Tomb of the Unknown Warrior in Westminster Abbey to-day (Friday). There were long queues of people, of them women, at Westminster Abbey this morning (Friday) to inspect the Royal Wedding Register. They also the Wedding Bouquet of White orchids on the Tomb of the request of H.R.H. Princess Elizabeth. November 21, 1947.

850 years of Flecken Alverdissen

Here ended the pilgrimage of John Howland who died Feb. 23, 1672/3, aged about 80 years , Tombs & sepulchral monuments, Howland, John, 1592-1672. Leon Abdalian Collection

Memorial, memorial stone with plaque for Pastor M. Friedrich Eng, shot by imperial soldiers in 1634, Wental, Barholomä, Swabian Alb, Baden-Württemberg, Germany, Europe

Tsunami Victims Memorial Stone, Alter Park, Tempelhof, Berlin, Germany, Europe

Canada, Nova Scotia, Halifax. Fairview Lawn Cemetery, home to the largest number of Titanic grave sites in the world, 121.

KZ Memorial Bergen-Belsen Jewish memorial made of stone inaugurated on April 15, 1946, on the first anniversary of the liberation. English inscription: Israel and the world are said to be reminiscent of 30,000 Jews who were killed in the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp by the hand of the murderous Nazis. Hebrew inscription: May the earth never cover the blood spilled here.

Tumba de Samuel Wheeler (1742-1820) en el cementerio "Christ Church Burial Ground", situado en la zona antigua de la ciudad. Filadelfia (Philadelphia). Estado de Pensilvania. Estados Unidos.

USA. Pennsylvania. Philadelphia. Christ burial Ground. Tomb of Benjamin Rush (1745-1813), one of the Founding Father of the United States.

Tomb of the family Steyn Parve, Anonymous, in or after 1903 - c. 1910.

Headstone on grave of Samuel Adams, Old Granary Burying Ground, Tremont Street, Boston, Massachusetts, USA

The headstone of Gardner G. Baston (1816-1895) at Woodstock Cemetery in Woodstock, New Hampshire during the autumn months. This cemetery is located along the Daniel Webster Highway.

Forest Hills Cemetery , Tombs & sepulchral monuments, Cemeteries, O'Neill, Eugene, 1888-1953, O'Neill, Carlotta, Forest Hills Cemetery Boston, Mass.. Leon Abdalian Collection

Ruse's Grave. June 12, 1937.

Memorial stone on the ore Memorial stone over the Royal Second Livgrenadjärdegemen's exercise site on the ore.

Memorial stone Dorothea Viehmann at the former cemetery at the Matthäuskirche, Kassel-Niederzwehren, Hesse, Germany

Anefo photo collection. Hie Holland England / Anefo London series. Grave London Kangdjeng Goestie Pangeran Ario Soejono, Minister Colonies (1886-1943). 1944. Britain, London

Neuer jüd. Friedhof in Fürth, Bayern, seit 1906 Neuer jüd. Friedhof in Fürth, Bayern, seit 1906 Copyright: xZoonar.com/HGVorndranx 22027142

Memorial plaque, synagogue, Fraenkelufer, Kreuzberg, Berlin, Germany, Europe

Headstone on grave of Paul Revere, Old Granary Burying Ground, Tremont Street, Boston, Massachusetts, USA

The remains of Samuel Gray, Samuel Maverick, James Caldwell, Crispus Attucks and Patrick Carr, victims of the Boston Massacre, March 5th 1770, were here interred by order of the Town of Boston , Tombs & sepulchral monuments, Attucks, Crispus, -1770, Gray, Samuel, -1770, Granary Burying Ground Boston, Mass.. Leon Abdalian Collection

HUNGARY, Lake Balaton Region, BALATONUDVARI: Heart Shaped Grave Stones

Memorial to Buddy Holly, Richie Vallens,

Collection of the Dutch Heidematschappij. REPORTAGE 50 years NHM course. undated

Palenque Chiapas di Maya, Templo del Sol Palenque cult site, UNESCO World Heritage Site, Palenque, Chiapas, Mexico, Central America, Memorial plaque in an archaeological site in Palenque, surrounded by grass, Central America

Poll photo collection. Carl Spitzweg. Tombstone on the tomb of the Spitzweg family in Munich. March 1935. Germany, Munich

Memorial stone to the victims of the tsunami, cemetery at the village church, Alt-Tempelhof, Tempelhof, Berlin, Germany, Europe

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St. Kitts and Nevis, St. Kitts. Middle Island, Tomb of Sir Thomas Warner, established St. Kitts as the first English colony in the Caribbean in 1624

Tomb of Alfred Adler, 1870-1937, psychologist, founder of individual psychology

Ogallala, Nebraska, Boot Hill, a cemetery for gun fighters, murder victims, and others that was used until 1885. Some of those buried here were cowboys who drove cattle from Texas to the Union Pacific railhead in Ogallala

UK, South Georgia and South Sandwich Islands, Grytviken, Text on stone tombstone

Hourly column on the Griessemer Berg

The Elias Cemetery in Dresden is considered the city's most culturally and historically significant cemetery. The burial site in the Pirnaische Vorstadt, which has been closed since 1876 for traffic and security reasons, has been a listed building since 1924.grave Chistian Clausen Dahl romantic landscape painter

Historic Bel Air Cemetery, although already badly dilapidated, is a national monument and one of the sights on the island with graves of famous personalities, Victoria, Mahe, Seychelles, Victoria, Mahe, Seychelles, Africa

Stele inaugurated on April 7, 2008, at the entrance of the 'Trouee d'Arenberg' in homage to Jean Stablinski. This stele was crafted by the sculptor Michel Karpovitch. Jean Stablinski had a special knowledge of Arenberg. Before he even turned Professional cyclist, he worked in the mine at the southern entrance to the Forest.

Information sign on concrete by river, Windelsbach, Germany

Salem, Charter Street, monuments, gravestone, Nathaniel Richardson , Cemeteries, Tombs & sepulchral monuments. Frank Cousins Glass Plate Negatives Collection

Neuer jüd. Friedhof in Fürth, Bayern, seit 1906 Neuer jüd. Friedhof in Fürth, Bayern, seit 1906 Copyright: xZoonar.com/HGVorndranx 22027100

Canada, Nova Scotia, Halifax. Fairview Lawn Cemetery, Titanic grave sites. Grave of the unknown child the most beloved victim in Halifax.

Collection of the Dutch Heidematschappij. Nobody outside of the shore. undated. Overijssel, Weiteman Lands

Monuments, Danvers, Walnut Grove Cemetery, gravestone of General Moses Porter , Cemeteries, Tombs & sepulchral monuments, Military officers, Porter, Moses, 1755-1822. Frank Cousins Glass Plate Negatives Collection

Memorial stone for the crew of the rescue cruiser Adolph Bermpohl, Cemetery of the Nameless, Insel Duene, Helgoland, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany, Europe

, MINORS PLACE - HOFTBBOUT DECAL, Bruno Raising Strategy -, Photographs

Milestone showing 39 miles to Hyde Park Corner plus Godalming and Liphook, Hindhead, Surrey, England, United Kingdom, Europe

Hokkaido, Japan, Asia, Sapporo,

Inscription on a wayside cross near Otterswang, Upper Swabia, Baden-Wuerttemberg, Germany, Europe

Grave Arnold and Beatrice Zweig, Dorotheenstaedtischer cemetery, Chausseestrasse, Mitte, Berlin, Germany, Europe

Northern cemetery in Norrköpng. Memorial stone over killed at Getå accident in 1918.

Titanic Cemetery. Place in the city of Halifax in Canada where the victims of the shipwreck were buried.

Grab Adolf Hölscher auf dem Friedhof Bad Pyrmont Grab Adolf Hölscher auf dem Friedhof Bad Pyrmont Copyright: xZoonar.com/MartinaxBergx 7786508

USA, District of Columbia, Washington, Female Union Band Cemetery, abandoned former cemetery of black women and paupers, gravestones

Gravestone from the Franklin expedition, Beechey island, Nunavut, Canadian Arctic, Canada, North America

Joseph Hewes gravestone in Christ Church Burial Ground, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, a signer of the Declaration of Independence

Salem, Charter Street, monuments, burying ground, gravestones, Colonel John Hathorne , Tombs & sepulchral monuments, Hathorne, John, active 1688. Frank Cousins Glass Plate Negatives Collection

Inscribed boulder Nova Scotia Canada

Canada, Nova Scotia, Halifax. Fairview Lawn Cemetery, Titanic grave sites.

Grave of Sir Ernest Shackleton in whalers' cemetery.

Monuments, witchcraft tablet, Salem, 70 Washington Street , Plaques, Historical markers, Witchcraft. Frank Cousins Glass Plate Negatives Collection

World War One execution pole and epitaph The Coward by Rudyard Kipling at inner courtyard of the Poperinge town hall, Belgium, Europe

Grave Paul Singer, Memorial of the Socialists, Central Cemetery Friedrichsfelde, Gudrunstrasse, Lichtenberg, Berlin, Germany, Europe

New York, Rome. Historic Erie Canal Village. Fort Bull historic marker.

Europe Germany City Hamburg, District Altona, Cemethery to the Chrstian's Church, Tomb Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock, German Poet, German Poet, German Poet, German Poet, German Poet, German Poet, German Poet, German Poet, German Poet, German Poet, German Poet, German Poet, German Poet, Commemorative Plaque McPkst McP Wal GFC6343 McPkst

Ancient petroglyphs displayed outside Nuyumbalees Cultural Centre in Cape Mudge village, Quadra Island, British Columbia, Canada

Remembrance of the victims of the World War in Pansfelde Harz

Whitehouse TX - 18. Januar 2025: Grabsteine auf dem historischen New Canaan Cemetery in Whitehouse TX Whitehouse TX - January 18, 2025: Headstones at Historic New Canaan Cemetery Located in Whitehouse Texas LicenseRF Copyright: xZoonar.com/LorixMartinx 23175671

Stone tablet with Japanese calligraphy, Imperial Palace Gardens, Tokyo, Japan

Lithuania, Vilnius-area, Paneriai, Paneriu memorialas, site of the Nazi deathcamp in World War Two where most of the Jews of Vilnius were massacred, memorial marker

Memorial plaque for woman and girls in beech forest concentration camp, now a concentration camp memorial, Weimar, Thuringia, Germany, Europe

An old stone marker with worn inscription, derbyshire, england

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