Photographs

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  • Refers to still images produced from radiation-sensitive materials (sensitive to light, electron beams, or nuclear radiation), generally by means of the chemical action of light on a sensitive film, paper, glass, or metal. Photographs may be positive or negative, opaque or transparent. The concept does not include reproductive prints of documents and technical drawings, for which descriptors found under "<reprographic copies>" are more appropriate. The concept may include photographs made by digital means.

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  • AAT

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Photographs

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University of Puerto Rico Student Movement collection

  • ASM0675
  • Collection
  • 2010-2011

The University of Puerto Rico Student Movement collection (2010-2011) documents through digital photographs and ephemera (30,061 KB) the student led strike to protest austerity and tuition measures announced by University of Puerto Rico administrators.

Rosa, Allesandra

University of Miami University Communications collection

  • ASU0245
  • Collection
  • circa 1980s-2000s

This collection contains photographs, video recordings, university publications, and press clippings of University of Miami's schools, departments, programs, and events, created by the University Communications during the 1980s through the 2000s.

University of Miami University Communications

University of Miami Seventy-Fifth Anniversary by Connie Crowther & Company collection

  • ASU0335
  • Collection
  • 1999-2001

This collection contains materials from the University of Miami's 75th Anniversary celebration. The materials in this collection include news clippings, memorabilia, posters, t-shirts, correspondence, general ephemera, reports, photographs, pamphlets, programs, invitations, announcements, and other materials related to the event planning among the different schools, colleges, and divisions.

University of Miami Office of Media Relations photograph collection

  • ASU0052
  • Collection
  • 1943-1994

The majority of the items found in this collection are photographs, negatives, and contact sheets of university buildings, its people, and events taken by the Office of Media Relations from the 1940s to the 1990s. Press releases, university publications, correspondence, and other materials created by the department are also available in the collection.

The Office of Media Relations is a department of the University Communications, and they are responsible for communicating information regarding the University’s achievements, faculty research, programs, and events to the local, regional, national, and international news media.

University of Miami Office of Media Relations

University of Miami Lowe Art Museum records

  • ASU0096
  • Collection
  • 1954-1993

The Lowe Art Museum collection contains records, reports, correspondence, cookbooks, publications, and other documents pertaining to the museum's publicity, administration, and events.

Lowe Art Museum

University of Miami historical photograph collection

  • ASU0642
  • Collection
  • 1926-1981

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.

University of Miami

University of Miami Commencement Ceremony collection

  • ASU0017
  • Collection
  • 1927-2014

This collection provides records of the commencement ceremonies held by all the schools and departments of the University of Miami since 1927.  It consists of UM Commencement Programs in print (1927-2014), UM Commencement Recordings (2003-2014), UM Commencement Photographs (2002-2009), UM Commencement Hard Drives, and UM Commencement Scripts (2003-2009) transferred from the University of Miami's Office of Commencement.

University of Miami

University of Miami campus architecture collection

  • ASU0651
  • Collection
  • 1926-2013

The historical blueprints and the drawings of UM buildings are important components of the University Archives.  The items in the collection are identified by building name, architect, location, types of materials, and date.  Materials range in date from the earliest days of the University in the 1920s to current day materials.

University of Miami

University of Miami Black Alumni Society collection

  • ASU0316
  • Collection
  • 1970-2017

This collection contains materials donated by members of the University of Miami Black Alumni Society. Contained within are photographs, event announcements, calendars, certificates, memorabilia, programs, plaques, and publications.

University of Miami Black Alumni Society

University of Miami Biology Club records

  • ASU0341
  • Collection
  • 1970-1995

This collection captures the history of the University of Miami Biology Club. Contained within are administrative documents, correspondence, exams, financial records, laboratory notes, member lists, and member photographs.

University of Miami Biology Club

University of Miami Athletics collection

  • ASU0010
  • Collection
  • 1926-2012

This collection contains an array of materials that document the history and legacy of the University of Miami Department of Intercollegiate Athletics. Contained within are photographs, audio-visual materials, publications, news and magazine clippings, sports statistics, contracts, questionnaires, and topical files.

University of Miami Athletics

Una Austin Weeks collection

  • ASU0343
  • Collection
  • 1855-1919

Una Austin Week, whose maiden name was Una Austin, was a professional concert mezzo-soprano singer performed in London, England in the 1910s.  The collection contains professional portrait photographs, concert programs, and press clippings of her performance appeared in newspapers and telegraphs.

Austin Weeks, Una

Toy Moon Photograph Collection

  • CHC5144
  • Collection
  • n.d., 1936-1957

The collection includes photographs on a variety of Cuban subjects ranging from buildings and monuments to street vendors and musicians.

Tom Pohrt Photograph Collection

  • CHC5252
  • Collection
  • ca. 1845-1940s

The Tom Pohrt photograph collection includes photographs from Cuba in the 19th and 20th century collected by Mr. Pohrt: albumen prints, including a group of images from an album dating from 1859 through the early 1860s of the lighthouses of Cuba and attributed to the studio of C.D. Fredricks; daguerreotype, ambrotype, carte de visite, and cabinet card portraits, the earliest dating from about 1845; stereographs taken by George Barnard around 1863; over 200 glass stereographs from the late 1890s to the 1920s; and 35 color slides from the 1940s.  Barnard’s images include several prints that are among the earliest known photographs documenting slavery in 19th-century Cuba.

Pohrt, Tom

Tom Austin papers

  • ASM0735
  • Collection
  • 1975-2022

The Tom Austin papers include the published articles, research notes, manuscripts, drafts, correspondence, photographs, ephemera, clippings, and other materials collected and produced by the prolific Miami/South Beach writer, editor, and columnist, Tom Austin (1955-2022).

Austin, Tom

Thorson, Milton Z. papers

  • ASM0461
  • Collection
  • 1954

Fourteen color photographs of a fishing trip to the Florida Keys.

Thorson, Milton Z.

Thomas de Valcourt and Michael Lerner collection

  • ASM0056
  • Collection
  • 1864-1947

The Thomas de Valcourt and Michael Lerner collection contains materials concerning 19th century New England poets and authors, most prominently Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, but also Henry David Thoreau, Washington Irving, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Walt Whitman, and minor figures. Much of the materials - which predominantly consists of prints, photographs, clippings, photocopies, newspapers, periodicals, postcards, reprints, poetry, and other formats - concerns their famous New England homes and their families' homes, and other literary landmarks in the vicinity. Most of the materials date from the late 19th and early 20th century.

Also included are a scrapbook of clippings of poetry, a 1962 plaster cast bust of Henry David Thoreau by Melvina Hoffman, an 1864 ceramic bust of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow by M. Milmore, two paperweights with depictions of the Longfellow house, a brick noted as "being used by Thoreau when adding to the family house on Virginia Road in Concord," and one copper ashtray.

de Valcourt, Thomas H.

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