University of Virginia Cemetery Photographs

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 DVDs containing files of the digitized slides and associated HTML files. 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.

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.