Monument to Willie R. Pierce, ca. 1880. The large marble angel that once adorned this monument has been lost to time and weather, but the base still remains. (Lot 19954, Sec. E/G)

Monument to Irad Hawley (1793-1865), ca. 1865. (Lot 2762, Sec. 102)

Monument to Mateo C. Rodriguez, ca. 1861. (Lot 12345, Sec. 161)

View south from Ocean Hill, circa 1870.

Monument to Reverend John F. Messenger on the Messenger family lot, ca. 1880. (Lot 506, Sec. 93/94)

Monument of William Hunt Norris, ca. 1875. (Lot 1968, Sec. 77)

Monument to Abraham Scribner (d. 1862), ca. 1875.

Monument to Thomas M. Smith, ca. 1860. (Lot 10883, Sec. 94)

Monument to Civil War veteran Lieutenant William Moir Smith (1839-1861), ca. 1880. William Moir Smith, a Union officer during the Civil War, fell mortally wounded at the First Battle of Bull Run, July 21, 1861. He was just 22 years old. The monument is a tribute to his military service, adorned with items from the typical uniform of a Union soldier, including a forage cap and infantryman's belt set with a cartridge box, cap box, and bayonet scabbard. Additionally, the laurel leaves on the stone symbolize victory and eternity. (Lot 5007, Sec. 75)

Lot of the Hopkins and Robinson Families, ca. 1865. (Lots 13257 and 11952, Sec. 161)

View in Green-Wood showing the lot of Peter Cooper (1791-1883), before the installation of his monument, with a view of Ocean Hill, 1891. Cooper was the greatest philanthropist of his time; all others were compared to him. He founded Cooper Union for the free education of those who otherwise could not affort college. (Lot 3932, Sec. 97/101).

View of Ocean Hill from Vine Dell, looking east down Ocean Avenue, ca. 1870.

Monument to Abraham Scribner (d. 1862), ca. 1875. (Lot 13137, Sec. 160)

The "Sea Captain's Monument," memorializing John Correja (1826-1910), ca. 1880. The monument of Captain John Correja was carved by sculptor Patrizio Piatti from Carrara marble that Correja brought back from Italy on his ship in the late 1850's. The sextant held in the marble Sea Captain's hands was the same one that Correja used for years to guide his ship across the seas. It disappeard long ago, but early photographs such as this one record how the monument originally appeared. Note the green wash on the marble hands; that is from the bronze of the sextant. (Lot 9457, Sec. 41)

View of Meadow Hill in The Green-Wood Cemetery, ca. 1885.

Monument of the Sprague family, ca. 1880.

Monument of William Anson Lawrence (1805-1844), ca. 1870.

Monument to William Shepard Wetmore, ca. 1875. (Lot 639, Sec. 97)

Mausoleum of Stephen Whitney (1776-1860), ca. 1875. The mausoleum of merchant, cotton speculator, and real estate investor Stephen Whitney occupies a prominent spot atop Ocean Hill in Green-Wood. When Whitney died in 1860, he left an estate estimated at $15 million (close to $400 million today). The Gothic Revival structure has an octagonal plan with a copper roof and gabled entry vestibule. Each of the eight sides features a dormer with a stained glass window. Also known as "Whitney Chapel," it has a desk and bench inside for a priest or devotee. (Lot 9, Sec. 98)

Monument of Charles T. French, ca. 1880. (Lot 5101, Sec. 97)

Monument of Frederick Derbyshire (d. 1855), ca. 1875. (Lot 7935, Sec. 118)

View near Meadow Water, a glacial pond once located at The Green-Wood Cemetery, ca. 1875.

Monument to American physician, naturalist, and politician Samuel Latham Mitchill (1764-1831), ca. 1860. (Lot 1389, Sec. 77)

Monument to William S. Packer (1800-1850), ca. 1870. (Lot 170, Sec. 104)

Monument of Aaron Arnold (1795-1876), located along Atlantic Avenue in Green-Wood, ca. 1870. (Lot 1427, Sec. 118)

Abraham S. Scribner Monument, Ocean Hill, ca. 1865.

Monument of Otto Fabricotti (d. 1869), ca. 1875. This ornate marble monument no longer stands in Green-Wood; a simpler granite gravestone now stands in its place. (Lot 18912, Sec. F)

View northwest from Ocean Hill on a snow covered winter's day, ca. 1860.

The Harper Brothers Monument, ca. 1880. The four partners of Harper & Brothers, once the leading publishing house in the world, are interred together at Green-Wood. James Harper (1795-1869), John Harper (1797-1875), Joseph Harper (1801-1870) and Fletcher Harper (1806-1877), each contributed to the success of the business with such notable periodicals as Harper's Weekly and Harper's Bazaar. Though James was originally interred with his wife at the Sands Street Church, their remains were later brought to Green-Wood. The fitting monument to the brothers is four-sided, with each side dedicated to one of the brothers and bearing his bronze portrait. (Lot 947, Sec. 95)

Monument to Henry and Elizabeth Ruggles, ca. 1860. The marble base, now weathered from time, bears an inscription from a hymn by eighteenth-century English minister Isaac Watts: "There are no acts of pardon past, In the cold grave to which we haste. But darkness, death and long despair, Reign in eternal silence there.” (Lot 10467, Sec. 121)

View south from Ocean Hill, ca. 1870.

Detail of the interior of the mausoleum of Thomas Clark Durant (1820-1885), ca. 1875. (Lot 10399, Sec. 65)

Mausoleum of Thomas Clark Durant (1820-1885), financier and promoter of the Union Pacific Railroad, ca. 1875. The Durant Mausoleum stands prominently on the side of Battle Hill, along Battle Avenue. The rarely-seen interior features three sculptures by John Moffitt as well as a plaque put there by Durant's son. It reads, "This Vault was Constructed Anno Domini 1868. For Thomas Clark Durant, M.D. Projector, Builder, Vice President, and General Manager of the Union Pacific Railroad. He died October 5, 1885. And this inscription to his memory was placed here by his son William West Durant, Anno Domini 1891." (Lot 10399, Sec. 65)

Mausoleum of Ambrose Cornelius Kingsland (1804-1878), ca. 1865. (Lot 8033, Sec. 75)

Monument to Abraham Scribner (d. 1862), ca. 1865.

Monument to Elias Howe (1819-1867), inventor of the sewing machine, 1906. The monument to Elias Howe, standing prominently at the intersection of Battle and Hemlock Avenue, features a bronze likeness of Howe, sculpted by famed artist Charles Calverley. (Lot 19967, Sec. H)

Monument of Reverend Henry Ward Beecher (1813-1887), as seen from Hillside Avenue, 1891. Henry Ward Beecher was a clergyman, social reformer, orator, and ardent abolitionist. Well known across the United States (indeed, Debby Applegate titled her Pulitzer Prize winning biography of Beecher “The Most Famous Man in America”), thousands would come to hear him at Plymouth Church in Brooklyn Heights, his sermons were transcribed and published, and he was regularly requested to speak at high profile events. An 1875 adultery trial threatened his reputation, but ultimately the civil jury could not reach a verdict. Despite being surrounded by controversy, his granite monument bears the inscription, "He thinketh no evil." (Lot 25911, Sec. 140)

Monument of Mary T. Baldwin Norris, ca. 1865. Walk around behind Mary’s sculpture; note the signature of the sculptor, Joel Tanner Hart. Hart also sculpted busts of Andrew Jackson and Henry Clay. Originally from Missouri, Hart established his studio in Florence, Italy, where he died in 1877. Sculptor Hiram Powers called Hart “the best bust-maker in the world.” (Lot 1968, Sec. 77)

View of five mausoleums along the southeastern side of Ocean Hill, from the intersection of Central and Grove Avenues, ca. 1865.

Mausoleum of prominent surgeon Dr. Valentine Mott (1785-1865), ca. 1870. (Lot 6035, Sec. 98)

View west from Ocean Hill, overlooking the lot of Peter Cooper (1791-1883), ca. 1875.

View along Cypress Avenue, ca. 1860.

Monument to Irad Hawley (1793-1865), ca. 1870.

Robinson family lot, ca. 1865. (Lot 11952, Sec. 161)

Chauncey Mausoleum, ca. 1870. (Lot 1017, Sec. 95)

Fire at the Booth Felt Company factory, January 12, 1929. A fire broke out at 5am and spread throughout the felt manufacturer's 19th Street building, causing residents of nearby tenements to evacuate.