Statue of Charlotte Canda (Green-Wood Cemetery, Brooklyn)

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Real photograph of the monument to Charlotte Canda located in The Green-Wood Cemetery in Brooklyn, NY. This monument is an absolutely gorgeous piece of Victorian history and worth seeing if you’re ever in Brooklyn!

More on Charlotte Canda from Wikipedia:
Charlotte Canda (February 3, 1828, February 3, 1845), sometimes referred to simply as “Miss Canda”,[3][4] was a young debutante who died in a horse carriage accident on the way home from her seventeenth birthday party in New York City. She is memorialized by a Victorian mausoleum in Green-Wood Cemetery, Brooklyn by Robert Launitz and John Frazee. The ornately and expensively decorated monument attracted thousands of visitors to Green-Wood Cemetery in the late 19th century.[5]