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Sarcophagi, usually "false", made a return to the cemeteries of America during the last quarter part of the 19th Century, at which time "it was decidedly the most prevalent of all memorials in our cemeteries.". They continued to be popular into the 1950s at which time the popularity of flat memorials (making for easier grounds maintenance) made them obsolete. Nonetheless a 1952 catalog from the memorial industry still included 8 pages of them, broken down into, Georgian and Classical detail, a Gothic and Renaissance adaptation, and a Modern variant. Shown on the right are two sarcophagi from the late 19th Century located in Laurel Hill Cemetery in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. the one in the back, the Warner Monument created by Alexander Milne Calder (1879) features the spirit or soul of the deceased being released.
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