Tombstone tourist
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A tombstone tourist is an individual with a passion for cemeteries, epitaphs, gravestone rubbing, photography, art, and history of deaths. The term has been most notably used by author and biographer
A group of tourists visiting the Dunkelgrafen
Stone rubbing
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Stone rubbing is the practice of creating an image of surface features of a stone on paper. The image records features such as natural textures, inscribed patterns or lettering. By rubbing hard render
Tombstone tourist
…as a "cemetery enthusiast", "cemetery tourist", "grave hunter", "graver", or "taphophile") is an individual with a passion for cemeteries, epitaphs, gravestone rubbing, photography, art, and history of (famous) deaths. The term has been most notably used by author and biographer Scott Stanton as the title of his former…
Stone rubbing at the Vietnam Veterans Memorial
A National Park Service volunteer kneels and uses paper and a graphite stick to create a rubbing of a name from the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
A stone rubbing (graphite on paper) for documentation of a petroglyph
Stone rubbing of anthropomorphic stele no 10, Sion, Petit-Chasseur necropolis, Neolithic