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Calvary Cemetery Office Acrylic Print
by Tom Brickhouse
Product Details
Calvary Cemetery Office acrylic print by Tom Brickhouse. Bring your artwork to life with the stylish lines and added depth of an acrylic print. Your image gets printed directly onto the back of a 1/4" thick sheet of clear acrylic. The high gloss of the acrylic sheet complements the rich colors of any image to produce stunning results. Two different mounting options are available, see below.
Design Details
Calvary Cemetery Office as it looked in 1971. The cemetery is located in Norfolk, Virginia and at that time was segregated for blacks only. It was a... more
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Artist's Description
Calvary Cemetery Office as it looked in 1971. The cemetery is located in Norfolk, Virginia and at that time was segregated for blacks only. It was a great experience for me, a young white boy, to work with these men of color.
From Calvary Cemetery website:
Calvary Cemetery was established as a burial ground for Norfolk's African American citizens on January 9, 1877. Calvary spans more than 68 acres of green space in a pastoral setting. For nearly a century, most of Norfolk's African American citizens were interred at Calvary as there were not other burial options available to African Americans in Norfolk until the mid-1970s.
About Tom Brickhouse
In my youth I would watch my dad in his makeshift darkroom developing photographs of the family. It seemed like magic when, in the red glow of the safelight, the image would appear from a blank piece of paper immersed in the developing tray. I was hooked. That was when I was still in high school, over 40 years ago. I have been taking pictures ever since. I attended Virginia Commonwealth University for a year and a half. At that time VCU didn't even offer photography as a course let alone a major so I ended up majoring in sculpture in order to do photography. If that sounds crazy, just remember it was the seventies. Any way I soon realized that college was not going to take me where I wanted to go. For the next 30 years I continued to...
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Craig Carter
Beautiful slice of history Tom! My first duty station was Norfolk Virginia in 1983. To my regret today I didn't take many photos.
Tom Brickhouse replied:
Thank you for your comments Craig. I created a blog that gives more information about my experience working at Calvary in 1971. http://tom-brickhouse.artistwebsites.com/blogs/calvary-cemetery-1971-my-summer-job-pt-1.html