Box 1

Abstract

Queens College Creative Services employs and/or contracts photographers to document academics, student life, and events on campus to create publicity and marketing material about the college. This collection includes photograph prints, photograph albums, and some negatives from the founding of the college in 1937 through about 2007, used by the Creative Services department in its work.

Scope and Contents From the Series: Photographs depict images of Queens College campus and grounds. As originally organized by Creative Services, photos are grouped by named buildings (mostly exterior shots but some interiors) or outside campus features. Some folders contain renderings of buildings both constructed and not realized, and several depict the construction process for various campus features and buildings. Other folders are organized by a unifying theme, like seasons. While students may be in these...

Scope and Contents From the Series: Photographs depict images of Queens College campus and grounds. As originally organized by Creative Services, photos are grouped by named buildings (mostly exterior shots but some interiors) or outside campus features. Some folders contain renderings of buildings both constructed and not realized, and several depict the construction process for various campus features and buildings. Other folders are organized by a unifying theme, like seasons. While students may be in these...

Scope and Contents From the Series: Photographs depict images of Queens College campus and grounds. As originally organized by Creative Services, photos are grouped by named buildings (mostly exterior shots but some interiors) or outside campus features. Some folders contain renderings of buildings both constructed and not realized, and several depict the construction process for various campus features and buildings. Other folders are organized by a unifying theme, like seasons. While students may be in these...

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This series, containing the largest number of photographs in the collection, depicts Queens College from its founding in 1937 through the early 2000s. The subjects are primarily students on campus, and the events, meetings, classes where they congregate, so as to capture the atmosphere, energy, and feel of the College to transmit through its advertising and marketing materials.

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Photos in Box 1 Folders 1-4 photographs document student demonstrations, the Virginia Student Help project of 1963, and the Jamaica Student Tutorial. Photos in box 25 document protests and building occupations in the spring of 1969.

Scope and Contents From the Series:

This series, containing the largest number of photographs in the collection, depicts Queens College from its founding in 1937 through the early 2000s. The subjects are primarily students on campus, and the events, meetings, classes where they congregate, so as to capture the atmosphere, energy, and feel of the College to transmit through its advertising and marketing materials.

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As differentiated from "Campus Art" in the Buildings and Grounds series, the photographs in this grouping all depict students making or displaying art, including drawings, paintings, ceramics, scupltures, and broader exhibits.

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These photographs depict students as part of Queens College formal sports teams and programs, as part of the physical education department, or as participating in athletic activity on campus.

Scope and Contents Photographs in this series consist mainly of students on campus and participating in campus life. For its published materials, Creative Services collected existing evidence and commissioned photographers to capture the diversity of the student population, its interests, and the everyday situations students could expect to see and alumni could be prompted to remember. Named events, organizations, or departments can be found in other series; these photographs are almost entirely of unnamed...