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With winged hourglasses and flying souls, cemeteries have long reminded visitors of the fleetingness of time. In the Victorian age, this memento mori—or remember death—style of symbolism transformed with a rising emphasis on resurrection and salvation. Instead of skulls, there were angels and suggestions of meeting again in the next life, like clasped hands carved on headstones. This walk in Green-Wood Cemetery—founded in 1838 in the midst of this shift in memorialization—will focus on memento mori symbolism in the 19th century.