Contents

Collection Overview

Biographical Note

Scope and Contents of the Collection

Organization of the Collection

Search Terms

Typescript Volumes,1976

Photographs,1977-1978

Old South Hadley burial ground history, 1976-1978.

Finding Aid

Encoding funded by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

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Biographical Note

Conceived by Jessie G. (Lie) Farber and supported by the South Hadley Bicentennial Committee as part of the United States bicentennial celebrations through the creation of a visual record of the history of the old burying ground in South Hadley. Originally established in 1728 at the site now occupied by the Gaylord Library, the stones and remains were moved to the Evergreen Cemetery between 1868 and 1904.

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Scope and Contents of the Collection

Collection consists of 5 manuscript (typescript) working volumes from which a 1-volume published work "The Old South Hadley Burial Ground, 1976 : A Conservation Project" was published by the South Hadley Historical Society in 1976, and 130 additional photographs of 18th and early 19th-century gravestones from the cemetery printed in 1977-78. The "conservation project" documenting the cemetery was conceived by Jessie G. Lie (later Jessie Farber) and was carried out by many citizens of South Hadley as part of the American bicentennial. The photographs are by Daniel Farber and Jessie Lie.

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Search Terms

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Organization of the Collection

This collection is organized into two series:

• Typescript Volumes
• Photographs

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Contents List

Typescript Volumes, 1976 5 v. 22 x 28 cm

Working draft of published volume title "Old South Hadley Burial Ground, 1976 : A Conservation Project". Documents history of the old burial ground, now part of Evergreen Cemetery, with 4x4 in. color photographs and descriptions of all the stones extant in 1976. Includes stones not in the set of b&w photographs printed in 1977-78. Principal contributors: Jessie G. Lie, Daniel Farber, Yvonne Nicholson, Paul and Constance Saintonge; with additional contributions by: Leslie Abrams, James B. Allen, Dvora B. Ashman, Alexander Bannerman, Theodore B. Belsky, Peter Benes, Harry Brock, Horace Brockway, Constance Clancy, Dorothy Cogswell, Dorothy S. Eaton, Anne C. Edmonds, Michael D. Feinstein, Wayne D. Gass, Martha M. Godchaux, Celia O. Goodale, Terry M. Griffiths, Leslie Herman, Linda Hess, Kathy Hirsch, Philip Jones, Susan Jones, Candy Kaihlanen, Marion Kohler, Edwin P. Larrow, Bert Lisi, Marjorie Long, Warren McAvoy, Jytte Muus, Chip Pysz, Irma Rabbino, Walter E. Rudolph, Ruth Ryder, George St. George, Curtis Smith, Elaine Smith, Kathy Smith, Faith Stacy Smith, Margaret Taylor, Mary Tuttle, Helen Vannett, Dorothy M. Vilbon, Ruth Warfel, Melvin Williams, Lynn Hoar, Myra Ryder, Francis Y. Duval, Ivan B. Rigby, Betty J. Jackson, Rev. Charles P. Blakney and William McGeer.

Photographs, 1977-1978 2 boxes

One hundred thirty 8x10 in. b&w photo prints of the relocated old burial ground and details of 78 gravestones carved primarily between 1741 and 1803 (the full range of dates is 1729-1853). Dimensions and other details of the stones is given with 4x4 in. color pictures in the typescript volumes. Forty-five photographs are by Daniel Farber and were printed in 1977; the remaining 85 photographs, by Daniel & Jessie (Lie) Farber, were printed in 1978.

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