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Collection P 004:
Fort Lewis College photograph collection

 

Quantity:
Approximately 17,000 photographs; more specifically, 27 document cases and 1 oversize flat lidded box of photoprints (nearly all, black and white), and 10 card file boxes of 4x5" (and some 35 mm) black and white photonegatives, bulk years 1957-1961.  To view selected images from the collection, see http://swcenter.fortlewis.edu/inventory/FortLewisImages.htm

Arrangement scheme:
For the sake of efficiency and to better preserve the photographic material in the Fort Lewis College Archives, we have grouped all of the Fort Lewis College Archives photographs together in Collection P004.  The series numbers within Collection P 004 reflect the numbering of the records in the Archives (Collection M001).  Photoprints are arranged by predominate departmental subject.  Photoprints within each series are numbered in a single numerical sequence beginning with 1 in each series.  The following table shows those basic series, and links to the other records of that portion of the college's administrative structure.

Series 1:  CCHE Series 2: CSU System Series 3: Governing Board (including, until Aug. 2002, the State Board of Agriculture) Series 4: Fort Lewis College President Series 5: Administrative Cabinet
Series 6: External Affairs Series 7: Office of Institutional Advancement Series 8: Affirmative Action Series 9: Athletics Series 10: College Relations
Series 11: Fort Lewis history Series 12: Office of Student Affairs Series 13:  College Union and Activities Office Series 14: Office of Academic Affairs Series 15: School of Arts and Sciences
Series 16: School of Business Administration Series 17:  School of Education Series 18: Educational Support Series 19: Faculty Government Series 20: Business and Financial Affairs
Series 21: Farm and Agricultural Experiment Station (Hesperus, Colo.) Index Press releases index Records Management Manual Records Management Office Survey form

Administrative information:
The photographs were arranged and described by Diana Novara, Assistant College Archivist, 2004-2005.  This inventory was prepared by Todd Ellison, C.A.

Photonegatives:

This collection includes approximately four thousand black and white photonegatives (most of them are on 4 x 5" safety film; some of the negatives in Box 36 are on 35 mm strips of film ).  The images on negative #s 13,000 through 16,095 and from 16,397 on are fairly well identified (they came to the Archives in their original acidic envelopes, each of which contained at least some identifying information); the remainder of the negatives in Box 39 were found loose and unidentified.  The Center anticipates cataloging the identified negatives at the item level when resources permit (we envision this as a long-term multi-year project). 

Photonegatives box 31: Fort Lewis School miscellaneous 4x5" photonegatives (removed from negatives Book I), 1950-1952, including faculty and staff, circa 1950-1952, #s 13,000 -13,328.  The faculty and staff images are filed alphabetically by personal name. 

Photonegatives box 32:  Fort Lewis School miscellaneous views (removed from negatives Book II), 1950-1954, including Fort Lewis School students and faculty 4x5" photonegatives, 1951-1952 and 1953-1954, #s 13,329 -13,732.

Photonegatives box 33:  Fort Lewis School photos arranged topically by subject, 4x5" photonegatives, #s 13,733 -14,052.

Photonegatives box 34:  Fort Lewis College 4x5" photonegatives, circa 1931-1961 (bulk years 1957-1961), #s 14,053 -14,406.

Photonegatives box 35:  Fort Lewis College 4x5" photonegatives, circa 1957-1981 (bulk years 1957-1961), #s 14,407 -14,830.

Photonegatives box 36:  Fort Lewis College 4x5" and 35 mm strip photonegatives, circa 1957-1981 (bulk years 1957-1961), #s 14,831 -15,240.

Photonegatives box 37:  Fort Lewis College 4x5" photonegatives, circa 1958-1961, #s 15,241 -15,620.

Photonegatives box 38:  Fort Lewis College 4x5" photonegatives, circa 1958-1961, #s 15,621 -16,008.

Photonegatives box 39:  Fort Lewis College 4x5" photonegatives, circa 1957-1961, #s 16,009 -16,396.  (None of the negatives from 16,096 -16,396 are identified.)

Photonegatives box 40:  Fort Lewis College students, faculty, and activities 4x5" photonegatives, circa 1951-1952 and 1953-59, #s 16,397 -1_,___.  (Most of these negatives are identified on the archival envelope that houses them.)

Doing your own research:  This description of a portion of the collections at the Fort Lewis College Center of Southwest Studies is provided to inform interested parties about the nature and depth of the repository's collections.  It cannot serve as a substitute for a visit to the repository for those with substantial research interests in the collections.

These collections are located at the Center of Southwest Studies on the campus of Fort Lewis College.  Interested researchers should phone the archivist at 970/247-7126 or send electronic mail to the archivist at: archives@fortlewis.edu.   Click here to use our E-mail Reference Request Form.  The Center does not have a budget for outgoing long-distance phone calls to answer reference requests, so please provide an email address if you wish to receive a response.

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