Crammed into staff offices are 50 filing cabinets holding instructions
from monument designers, stone masons, and families, and blueprints for
hundreds of mausoleums. There are also stereoscopic photographs of the
grounds circa 1850, when the rolling hills attracted nearly as many
visitors as Niagara Falls, and families spread out picnics on the lawn.
Since 2009, a team of graduate students and volunteers has excavated the
materials from brown accordion pouches, unfolded them, and shimmied off
metal paperclips and anything else that might damage the delicate
surfaces. They’re still only about halfway through. “It’s an enormous
undertaking,” says Cucchiara.
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