Elizabeth Broman
Elizabeth Broman is a graduate of Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, New York with a Master's Degree In both Library Science and Art History and is recently retired as a Librarian at the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum, Smithsonian Institution, in New York City. Her MA thesis was "Egyptian Revival Funerary Art in Green-Wood Cemetery, Brooklyn, NY". She continues to pursue Egyptian Revival all these years later and has done presentations on pet cemeteries, hair and mourning jewelry.
Aug. 10, 2023
Episode 146 - A Gilded Age Tale: The Owl Mausoleum of James Gordon Be…
On the western side of Paris, France, not far from the Eiffel Tower, is Cimetière de Passy, a small cemetery where a simple mausoleum whose doors are topped by an owl sits among its fellow graves in a most unassuming …