Scope and Content: The Edward P. Busse Photographs collection contains photographs collected by Edward P. Busse, a superintendent of the Madison State Hospital from 1910-1915. Topics within the photographs include Hanover College, students, student clubs, glee club, and the Madison State Hospital (Cragmont).

Historical Note: Hanover College was founded in 1827 by John Finley Crowe, a Presbyterian minister, in southern Indiana as a Presbyterian Seminary. The college was the first private college in the state of Indiana. Dr. Edward P. Busse was the first superintendent of the Madison State Hospital, originally known as the Southeastern Hospital for the Insane, from 1910-1915. The hospital was nicknamed Cragmont due to its location on a bluff overlooking the Ohio River.

This is a finding aid, which provides information about the contents of an archival collection. The presence of a finding aid on this website does not mean that items from the collection have been digitized or are available online. For more information about this collection, or to schedule a time to visit and review nondigitized materials, please contact the Hanover College Archives at archives@hanover.edu.

Creator

• Busse, Edward P.

Subject

• Hanover College

• Universities and colleges--Hanover College

Publisher

• Hanover College

Language

• English

Keyword

• Hanover students

• Hanover College, Edward P. Busse Photographs, PH 32

• Finding Aid

• Glee Club

Date created

• 1910-1915

Resource type

• Book

Rights statement

• http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC-EDU/1.0/