Joan Geismar Research on the United States Naval Hospital Cemetery
Collection, MC/57
- Creator:
- Joan H. Geismar
- 1995 – 1999
- 1920 – 1940
- Quantity
- 1 box
- Language of Materials
- English.
- Call Number
- MC/57
- Administrative/Biographical History
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Joan H. Geismar is an archaeological consultant who has been practicing urban archaeology since 1981. She received her doctorate in Anthropology from Columbia University, and has experience documenting the history of sites in the New York metropolitan area, assessing potential archaeological sites and carrying out fieldwork.
She has worked with a number of private developers, institutions and municipal agencies in New York and New Jersey. She is a founding member of the Professional Archaeologists of New York City Inc. (PANYC), served as president for four terms and as of this writing is currently a member of the Executive Board. She also serves on the Preservation Committee of the Municipal Arts Society. She has received a number of preservation awards, and in 1999 was designated a Centennial Historian of the City of New York by Mayor Rudolph Giuliani. - Scope and Content
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The Joan H. Geismar, Ph.D., Research Materials on the United States Naval Hospital Cemetery, Brooklyn, New York, were compiled while conducting research on the Naval Hospital Cemetery in Brooklyn New York for the US Department of the Navy, Northern Division, Naval Facilities Engineering Command. The product of this research, State of the Research: Naval hospital cemetery historical documentation, Naval Station, Brooklyn, New York (1999), was created in conjunction with TAMS Consultants Inc. to address undocumented military burials when the US Naval Hospital cemetery in Brooklyn, New York underwent a disinterment in 1926 to Cypress Hills National Cemetery.
The collection includes contextual documentation on the Naval Hospital and its cemetery, and letters concerning the subsequent disinterment and reinterment at Cypress Hills. Also included are files relating specifically to the capture, death and burial of the Fijian Chief, Vendovi, as well as some documentation on the addition of water closets on the hospital site. There are also fourteen registers and lists of individuals who were buried at the Naval Hospital cemetery and/or placed at Cypress Hills, which were obtained from over 20 federal, state and local repositories. - Related Materials
- Publication Note: The product of this collection was published as State of the Research: Naval hospital cemetery historical documentation, Naval Station, Brooklyn, New York (1999), created in conjunction with TAMS Consultants Inc.
- System of Arrangement
- This collection contains 2 series: Contextual Research Materials and Cemetery Registers and Lists.
- Access Points
- Naval Cemetery
- Access and Use
- Conditions Governing Access This collection is open for research.
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- Preferred Citation Published citations should take the following form: Identification of item, date (if known); Joan Geismar Research on the United States Naval Hospital; MC/57; Brooklyn Navy Yard Development Corporation Archives, Brooklyn, NY.