The park-like settings of new nineteenth-century rural cemeteries became tourist destinations, promoted in travel literature of the era. Tourist guidebooks were published for the large cemeteries of major cities, describing monuments of interest and advising the visitor of the most beautiful vistas.
This page from an 1854 guidebook for Mount Auburn Cemetery in Boston features monuments for a child and a mother and daughter along with the inscriptions from the stones.
Nathaniel Dearborn, Dearborn’s Guide through Mount Auburn, 1854, 26. Courtesy of Archive.org
Image featured in Discovering Quacks, Utopias, and Cemeteries: Modern Lessons from Historical Themes by Cynthia Resor