Scene at the historic Woodlawn Cemetery in Woodlawn, within The Bronx borough of New York City

The graveyard opened during the U.S. Civil War in 1863, in what was then part of rural Westchester County, in an area that was annexed to New York City in 1874. Itis the final resting place of many American notables, including journalist Nellie Bly, novelist Herman Melville, and musicians Irving Berlin, Miles Davis, Duke Ellington, and W.C. Handy.
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Purchase; Carol M. Highsmith Photography, Inc.; 2018; (DLC/PP-2018:052-2)
Forms part of Carol M. Highsmith's America Project in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive.
Credit line: Photographs in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division.