University of Miami historical photograph collection

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University of Miami historical photograph collection

• 1926-1981 (Produção)

172 Boxes

The U.M. Historical Photograph Collection holds over 500,000 photographs, negatives, and slides that document the University’s growth from the 1920s through the presidency of Henry King Stanford in the 1970s.  The collection is especially rich in images showcasing UM sports, the expansion of each campus, student life, and special events such as commencement ceremonies.

The collection is organized by the following categories:

Series I: Buildings and grounds

Series II: Athletics

Series III: Student organizations and activities

Series IV: Events

Series V: Students

Series VI: Colleges, institutions, and schools

Series VII: Administrators, deans, faculty, and presidents

Series VIII: Administrative and Other Service Organizations

Series IX: Alumni and other support organizations

Series X: Miscellaneous photos

The collection has been processed at the folder level.  For further details see the the container list PDF attached to the finding aid for the 4,000 subcategories from “Albert Pick Hall Center for Advanced International Studies” to “Trustees.”

This collection is open for research.

This collection is kept in an off-campus storage facility. Please contact the University Archivist, Nick Iwanicki, at ngi5@miami.edu with the boxes you are interested in prior to your visit, and allow up to 1 week for delivery of materials.

The University of Miami owns the rights of the images. Please contact the University Archivist, Nick Iwanicki, at ngi5@miami.edu for further information regarding reproduction requests.

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Patrons can browse approximately 8,000 images from the collection or research them by subject and keyword by visiting the website below.  The images available on the site are in lower quality, but publication-ready high quality images are also available at additional cost.

https://digitalcollections.library.miami.edu/digital/collection/umphotos

• Division of Communication Services slide collection
• James S. Penny photograph collection

This collection was originally processed by Archives Technician, Marcia Heath. Finding aid was edited by Processing Archivist, Yvette Yurubi, 12-08-22.

• College buildings -- Florida -- Miami -- History
• College students -- Florida -- Miami -- History
• Universities and colleges -- Florida -- Miami

• University of Miami -- Sports (Assunto)
• University of Miami -- Students (Assunto)

• Fotografias
• Slides (Photographs)
• Negatives (photographs)