The University of Massachusetts Amherst
Robert S. Cox Special Collections & University Archives Research Center
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Napoleon, Nanette

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Nanette Napoleon Collection

1960-1989
1 box 0.25 linear feet
Call no.: MS 681

A freelance researcher and writer from Hawaii, Nanette Napoleon founded The Cemetery Research Project in 1985 to document graveyards and burials on the island of O‘ahu. She has subsequently completed inventories for the islands of Maui and Moloka‘i, documenting over 300 graveyards and more than 30,000 tombstone inscriptions.

The Napoleon collections consists of an array of articles on cemeteries and the culture of death from popular media assembled by Nanette Napoleon. One folder contains information on the Cemetery Research Project and cemeteries in Hawaii.

Subjects

Cemetery Research ProjectSepulchral monuments--Hawaii

Contributors

Association for Gravestone StudiesNapoleon, Nanette

Types of material

Photographs