To the Happy Couple
A Digital Collection of Objects Celebrating a Marriage
Contents: About the Collection | People | Tech
About the Collection
This site is a collection of digitized materials from the bridal shower and wedding scrapbook of Suzanne Stratman Machenheimer and Harry Machenheimer. The materials consist of photographs from the bridal shower; cards given or sent to the couple for their bridal shower and wedding; an invitation to the bridal shower; monogrammed napkins from their bridal shower and wedding; newspaper clippings announcing their engagement and wedding; a letter from a priest; and, church bulletins announcing their wedding to the congregation. The majority of the materials belong to Harry Machenheimer. The cards were produced by various greeting card companies, but they have entered the public domain. Users of the site are free to use these materials for personal or educational use.
This site is generated using CollectionBuilder-GH, a project to create a free and simple digital collection using GitHub Pages from:
- a CSV of collection metadata
- a folder of JPG images or PDF documents
For full details of creating your own collection site, visit CollectionBuilder Documentation!
People
Casey Machenheimer is an MLS student at Indiana University Bloomington. She created this site as a part of her MLS program. She is specializing in Rare Books and Manuscripts, and she is passionate about increasing public interest in special collections through access and advocacy. She also has a BA in English from Ohio University.
Special thanks go to Harry Machenheimer for graciously allowing the creator to digitize this collection; thanks to Jane and Mike Machenheimer for facilitating the use of this collection and identifying some individuals in photographs; thanks to John Walsh and Alex Wingate for teaching the Digital Libraries course and assisting with many technical questions; thanks to Dr. Nazareth Pantaloni III for assisting with copyright inquiries; thanks to Caroline Scheving for providing access to an Epson scanner for digitization purposes, as well as technical and emotional support; and, thanks to Josh Peters and Julia Parkinson for providing additional technical and emotional support throughout the duration of this project.
This site is also created in memory of Suzanne Stratman Machenheimer.
Technical Credits - CollectionBuilder
This digital collection is built with CollectionBuilder, an open source framework for creating digital collection and exhibit websites that is developed by faculty librarians at the University of Idaho Library following the Lib-Static methodology.
The site started from the CollectionBuilder-GH template which utilizes the static website generator Jekyll and GitHub Pages to build and host digital collections and exhibits.