A graveyard preservation primer / Lynette Strangstad
- Author
- Strangstad, Lynette
- Published
- Lanham, Maryland : AltaMira Press, [2013]
- Edition
- Second edition.
- Physical Description
- xvi, 220 pages ; 24 cm.
- Series
- Contents
- Machine generated contents note: ch. 1 Assessing the Problem -- The Importance of Early Graveyards -- A Few Definitions -- ch. 2 Organizational Concerns -- Developing a Plan -- Working with Volunteers -- Public Awareness Security -- Graveyards as an Educational Tool -- A Word about Funding -- ch. 3 Documentation and Research -- Documenting the Graveyard -- Research -- Surveys -- Site Management Plan -- Mapping the Graveyard -- Archaeology -- ch. 4 Conservation Issues -- Safety Note -- Cleaning and Maintaining the Site -- Landscaping -- Finding a Gravemarker Conservation Professional -- Stone in Graveyards -- Brick and Stone Box Tombs and Vaults -- Metals -- ch. 5 A Question of Ethics -- Observing Respect -- Maintaining Historic Integrity -- Gravestone Rubbing -- Removal of Gravestones -- APPENDICES -- A.Sample Gravestone Rubbing Regulations -- B.Sample Cemetery Survey Forms -- C.Sample Individual Marker Assessment Form -- D.Sample Vegetation Survey Form -- E.Ironwork Assessment Worksheet -- F.Sample Cemetery Legislation -- G.Consultants, Conservators, and Carvers.
- Summary
- An updated edition of a resource for those who seek to protect and preserve historic graveyards. Discussion of technological changes include those in mapping, surveying, photography, archaeology, and other areas of evaluation and planning. Consideration is given, too, to maintenance and conservation treatments, including both traditional and newer treatments for stone, concrete, and metals. Metals were not discussed in the earlier editions, and protection and preservation of the landscape as it relates to graveyards is an expanded focus of this book.
- Subject(s)
- ISBN
- 9780759122413 (cloth : alk. paper)
0759122415 (cloth : alk. paper)
0759122423 (pbk.)
9780759122420 (pbk.) - Bibliography Note
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Source of Acquisition
- Purchased with funds from the Class of 1966 Libraries Endowment; 2014
Purchased with funds from the Paterno Libraries Endowment (Campus College Libraries); 2017 - Endowment Note
- Paterno Libraries Endowment (Campus College Libraries)
Ada M. Zellers Albright Libraries Preservation Endowment
Class of 1966 Libraries Endowment
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