Beech Grove Cemetery postcards and Board of Trustees report
Scope and Contents
This collection consists of digital surrogates of 41 postcards (circa 1905-1916) featuring images of Beech Grove Cemetery in Muncie, Indiana and a 1906 report from the Beech Grove Cemetery Board of Trustees. Also included is an undated postcard for the Gardens of Memory cemetery. Several of the postcards were printed by the Galion View Company of Galion, Ohio, which created one of the largest series of postcards of Muncie featuring nearly one hundred views of various buildings and locations throughout the city.
Dates
- circa 1905-1916
Conditions Governing Access
This collection is open for research.
Conditions Governing Use
Legal title, copyright, and literary rights reside with Archives and Special Collections, Ball State University Libraries, Muncie, IN. All requests to publish or quote from manuscripts must be submitted to Archives and Special Collections.
Extent
0.1 Cubic Feet (Digital files only (11.9 GB))
Language of Materials
English
Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements
Digital file formats include JPEG (.JPG), Adobe Portable Document Format (.PDF), and Tagged Image File Format (.TIF)
Custodial History
This collection was received by Archives and Special Collections as donation by Jeff Koenker on 2015/09/03.
Accruals
No further additions are expected.
Existence and Location of Originals
Original materials were digitized and returned to the donor.
Processing Information
Collection processing completed 2015/09/04 by Brandon Pieczko. EAD finding aid created 2015/09/04 by Brandon Pieczko.
- Cemeteries Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Digital file formats Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
- Muncie (Ind.) -- History -- 20th century -- Sources Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Postcards Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Reports Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Title
- Beech Grove Cemetery postcards and Board of Trustees report
- Status
- Completed
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- Undetermined
- Script of description
- Code for undetermined script
Repository Details
Part of the Stoeckel Archives of Local History Repository
Alexander M. Bracken Library
2000 W. University Avenue
Muncie Indiana 47306 USA
libarchives@bsu.edu
