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Final Exam Review
History of Photography, Cemetary types, Research, Census info
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11th Grade
06/08/2009

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1839, daguerretype
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Dauguerre received patent for ____
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1840, New York City
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1st daguerretype studio opened in______
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1850, Gallery of Illustrious Americans
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Mathew Brady published photo book called_____
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1850, stereoscopic view
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Langheim brothers created this
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1853, tintype
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Hamilton Smith of Ohio created this
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1854 ambrotype
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James Cutting created_____
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1856, enlargements
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Alexander Gardner (Civil War photographer) created a process for ______
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1857, Cartes de visite
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Duke of Parma introduced this & it came to America 2 years later
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1864-1866, revenue stamps
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____ were required for photos
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1888, "You push the button - We do the rest"
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Kodak roll-film camera slogan was _____
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1935, Kodachrome
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Eastman Kodak introduced low-cost color photo slides and prints called ____
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1957, Polaroid
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Edwin Land introduced full-color ______
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Instamatic Camera
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Kodak introduced this in 1963
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1991, CDs
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Kodak made pictures available on what?
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Church Graveyard
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originated in Europe and moved to US
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Family Burial Plot
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most difficult cemetaries to locate
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Family Burial Plot
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most difficult cemetaries to locate
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Country Cemetery
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contained homemade or mail order headstones
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Elite Garden Cemetery
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began in Mt. Auburn Massachusetts in 1831 and is often used for picnics
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Ordinary Urban Cemetery
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contains rows of tombstones in the middle of a city
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Veteran Cemetery
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110 in the nation, Arlington National Cemetery is the most famous, which started out as a joke on the Lees
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Memorial Park
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markers are flushed in the ground to make mowing the grass easier
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Potter's Field
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the unwanted and poor are burried here
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before 1650s
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markers were uncut boulders and some had initials carved in them
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1650s-1850s
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stones made of sedimentary rock or slate and Roman lettering was used
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1770s-1880s
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marble was used with italic letter but was changed to Roman in the 1840s because it was easier to read
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1880s-1990s, early 1900s
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granite was used and sandblasting became popular
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east
Definition
Christians were burried facing this way so that they are ready for the second coming of Christ
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left
Definition
wives are traditionally burried to this side of their husband because it is believed that Eve was created out of the ____ side of Adam
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1600s-early 1700s
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Puritans used winged death heads as tombstone toppers
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Victorian Age
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a heart meant romantic love in this age
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Woodmen of the World Society
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a treestump as a tombstone means that person was a member of this organization
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Bible, end of life
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books usually referred to the ______ and a closed book meant ______
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over 8000
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______ number of symbols have been identified and were all chosen with a purpose
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too expensive
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stone cutters sometimed made mstakes but they weren't always fixed because it was _____
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epidemic, war, or natural disaster
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similar death dates in a cemetery may indicate one of these three things
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shaving cream
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______ is bad for tombstones but was smeared on then rubbed of in order to make out the writing on a tombstone
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Massachusettes
Definition
it is illegal to make grave rubbings in this state
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Yankees from sitting on Confederate tombstones
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stones of confederate soldiers had points on them to prevent _______
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1790, determine house representation
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first census taken in order to _____
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1790, determine house representation
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first census taken in order to _____
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1850 Census
Definition
first census to list all the family names
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1880 Census
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first census to use the soundex system
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1890 Census
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was destroyed by a fire in 1921
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Privacy Act of 1974
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census records have to be kept private for 72 years before being released
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Soundex System
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helps to identify mispelled names
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1892
Definition
Ellis Island opened
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Ellis Island
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only third class passengers could immigrate through here
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1924
Definition
immigrants required to get a VISA in their own country before coming to the US
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1954
Definition
Ellis Island became surplus property
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1785, Philadelphia
Definition
this city published the first city directory in the US
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