Moses Taylor was a 19th-century New York merchant and banker and one of the wealthiest men of that century. At his death, his estate was reported to be worth $70 million. He controlled the National Ci
Thomas Nast cartoon of the "White-washing Committee" (L–R: Astor, Taylor, Marshall O. Roberts)
The New York City Marble Cemetery is a historic cemetery founded in 1831, and located at 52-74 East 2nd Street between First and Second Avenues in the East Village neighborhood of Manhattan, New York
The cemetery entrance on an open house day (May 1, 2011)
The monument to John Lloyd Stephens, with the Mayan glyph designed by his collaborator, Frederick Catherwood in the inset, lower right
A marble marker, used for those vaults without monuments