University of Virginia Cemetery Photographs
Content Description
This addition to RG 20/10/3 Administrative Committees/Cemetery includes slides of headstones of the University of Virginia Cemetery made between 1993 and 1996 and 9 CDs containing files of the digitized slides and associated HTML files.
This collection documents the photography portion of the project; each stone was rephotographed, and the slides were labeled by name and plot number. The boxes contain the slides, organized by cemetery sections. Box ViU2021.0133_001 contains slides from section A; Box ViU2021.0133_002 contains slides from sections B, C, and D; and Box ViU2021.0133_003 contains slides from sections E and F.
The optical disks consist primarily of digitized slides. Files have been given numerical identifiers which correlate to numbers on the back of the slide.
The digitized files have been kept in the original file structure to allow users to use the HTML galleries as they were originally created. They consist of several galleries of photographs created during the original project and feature both low quality .jpg files as well as high quality .tif files of the images.
Dates
- Creation: 1993 - 1996
Creator
- Burke, Alison K. (Person)
Conditions Governing Access
This collection is open for research with the following exception:
Original digital media (floppy disks, zip disks, thumb drives) and born-digital files cannot be handled directly by patrons. Please contact Special Collections via our online Reference Request form, https://small.library.virginia.edu/services/reference-request, to request access to these materials. Please be aware that additional actions may be required to make these items available. Items will be evaluated on a case-by-case basis before access can be made. Depending on the request size, making them available may take some time.
Biographical / Historical
This project was conducted by Alison K. Burke (MLA 1995) during the summer of 1993, the winter of 1994, and from the fall of 1995 to the spring of 1996 with additional work by Alison Kipp (MLA 1996) during the summer of 1995. Several other students also completed work on the cemetery records before 1993. The photographing of headstones continued the work first done in the late 1960s by Professor Garlick. This work was completed under the supervision of Jeff Ertel of the University of Virginia's Facilities Management Department. The photographing of cemetery stones was part of a larger project primarily designed to correct and upkeep records and create a new database held by the Landscape Office of Facilities Management.
Full Extent
33.1 Gigabytes (5,494 files including JPGs, TIFFs, HTML, and text files.)
Full Extent
0.67 Cubic Feet (3 Clamshell slide boxes and 18 cds)
Language of Materials
English
Metadata Rights Declarations
- License: This record is made available under an Universal 1.0 Public Domain Dedication Creative Commons license. The Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library of the University of Virginia makes its bibliographic records and the metadata contained therein available for public use under the CC0 1.0 Public Domain Designation. (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/)
Subject
- University of Virginia. Cemetery (Organization)
Geographic
- Title
- University of Virginia Cemetery Photographs
- Status
- Completed
- Author
- K Lighty
- Date
- 2026-1-13
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
Repository Details
Part of the Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library Repository
Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library
P.O. Box 400110
University of Virginia
Charlottesville Virginia 22904-4110 United States