Columbia given cemetery papers
From Bloomberg News
Columbia University has been given Woodlawn Cemetery’s vast archives of maps, pictures, mausoleum blueprints and other materials so that architects, historians and other specialists can have access to the materials.
The items from the 143-year-old New York cemetery include documents about prominent figures in literature, business, jazz, theater and the arts who are buried there, including composer Duke Ellington, author Herman Melville, builder Robert Moses and jazz trumpeter Miles Davis.
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