Stephen Quick Old Greencastle Cemetery Gravestone Photographs (SC-324)
Scope and Contents
The collection consists of digital photographs of all surviving, visible gravestones at Old Greencastle Cemetery, located at South Broadway and Miami Chapel Road, Dayton, as of February 2019. The photo documentation project was undertaken by local Boy Scout Stephen Quick as his Eagle Scout service project.
Dates
- Creation: 2018-2019
Creator
- Quick, Stephen (Person)
Conditions Governing Access
All items listed in this finding aid are processed and available; however, researchers are requested to provide two days advance notice when requesting electronic records. Call (937) 775-2092 or e-mail library-archives-ref@wright.edu.
Conditions Governing Use
Copyright restrictions may apply. Unpublished manuscripts are protected by copyright. Permission to publish, quote, or reproduce must be secured from the repository and the copyright holder.
Biographical / Historical
The collection was created by local Boy Scout Stephen Quick as his Eagle Scout service project. From November 2018 to February 2019, Quick and a team of volunteers combed the cemetery to photograph all surviving, visible gravestones. The earliest gravestone photographed as part of this project is for Elizabeth Fogleson, who died in 1853.
Old Greencastle Cemetery is located on the east side of South Broadway Street, between Miami Chapel Road and Noble Avenue, in Dayton. It is most likely the oldest surviving cemetery in Dayton. Burials at the site began about 1849, when Simon McClure donated three acres of land to Henry Shoup to build a church and burial ground.
Extent
5.66 Gigabytes (sc324_e0001 (including 894 digital photographs))
Language of Materials
English
Arrangement
The collection is arranged in a single series, alphabetically according to the last name of the deceased person.
Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements
Electronic files require the use of appropriate computer hardware and software. Original file formats include JPEG and HTML.
Other Finding Aids
The finding aid is available on the Special Collections & Archives, Wright State University Libraries web site at https://www.libraries.wright.edu/special/collectionguides/files/sc324.pdf.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
The collection was donated to Special Collections and Archives, Wright State University Libraries, by Stephen Quick in March 2019.
donor
- Quick, Stephen (Person)
Subject
- Old Greencastle Cemetery (Dayton, Ohio) -- Photographs (Organization)
- Title
- Guide to the Stephen Quick Old Greencastle Cemetery Gravestone Photographs (SC-324)
- Status
- Completed
- Author
- Lisa Rickey
- Date
- 2019 Mar 22
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
- Language of description note
- English
Repository Details
Part of the Special Collections Repository
Wright State University Libraries
Special Collections and Archives
3640 Colonel Glenn Hwy
Dayton OH 45435-0001 USA
937-775-2092
library-archives@wright.edu
