By Sara Fetherolf, Brooklyn College Intern
Title: Scrapbooks of Lot Owner Orders, 1921-1939
Extent: 7.0 Boxes
Arrangement: Arranged chronologically
Subjects: Cemeteries--Recording--New York State, Cemetery Rules and Regulations, Green-Wood Cemetery--New York, N.Y., Wills
Forms of Material: Correspondence
Languages: English
This series is made up of scrapbook-style albums which contain typewritten copies of correspondence concerning lot usage, including messages from lot owners pertaining to burial authorizations, requests for lot reassignments, protests at unauthorized lot usage, and notifications of clauses in wills pertaining to lot use. The documents are in their original order within the albums, and follow a loose chronological arrangement. The overlapping dates in several of the books may indicate that the document copies were pasted there as the requests were received or acted upon by the cemetery, rather than according to the original dates on the correspondence.
While the series spans from 1921-1939, there are many gaps in the records. The earliest book is marked Volume 9, indicating that many previous volumes are either missing or have been disassembled. The Memo Files contain documents that appear to have been torn from the Scrapbooks and filed in the appropriate lot folder. Additionally, many of the books have lost their covers, so it is no longer possible to ascertain a volume number. In these cases the books have been arranged chronologically according to the earliest dates found in the volume.
These books are embrittled, and in many cases are missing pages or contain pages where documents were once pasted but have been removed. Records end abruptly in the middle of the last volume, with the last correspondence dated May 1938. However, the series contains a folder with a few additional documents from 1939.
The Scrapbooks are referenced in the Green-Wood lot books, where a specific volume number and page number is noted if a record exists for that lot.
Cemeteries--Recording--New York State
Cemetery Rules and Regulations
Green-Wood Cemetery--New York, N.Y.
Wills
