Box 7

Scope and Contents

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.

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...

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.