Santa Rosa, California. Japanese laborers were usually buried in unmarked graves. Someone at least saw fit to memorialize the spot with what little information is known. Not sure if this is a mass grave or a general cenotaph for those buried in the area.
Discovered in Big Pine California's cemetery.
A forlorn and grieving figure in Cypress Hill Cemetery, Petaluma, CA, US
A full-figure photo of one of the caryatids supporting the Smith mausoleum in Oakland California.
This is the resting place of Francis Marion "Borax" Smith, his spouse Mary Rebecca Thompson Wright, his other spouse (not simultaneously) Evelyn Kate Ellis, and several adopted children.
Smith was called Borax, because he came to dominate the extraction and processing of borates from the Mojave Desert in the 19th century.
One of four caryatids holding up the Smith mausoleum. Oakland California
Victor Noir was the pen name of Yvan Salmon, a young French journalist caught up in a dispute with a member of the Bonaparte family, the latter taking umbrage at some choice words published about him.
Ultimately, Prince Bonaparte shot and killed Noir, but that only fueled anti-elite sentiments. Noir became a sort of martyr of the working class and the gravesite was covered with a life size sculpture of him, supine as though he had just been shot.
Here's where things take an unusual turn. The bronze effigy has a distinct bulge in the pants. At some point this became fetishized and visitors started touching the protuberance and kissing the face for good luck in love and fertility.