1. UMass Dartmouth Historical Archives

Scope and Contents The collection consists of 111 photographs depicting faculty, students, classrooms, textile machinery, offices and lavatories more or less uniform in size and presentation (apparently conceived as a set) with captions set within the photoprint. Most of the collection is unmounted and was previously housed in two black binders, not original to the photographs. The few that are mounted on cardboard display additional descriptive captions, added for display purposes. All but 9 of the...

Scope and Contents The 151 photographs in this collection form a coherent group in that they document the design, groundbreaking ceremonies and clearing of land for the North Dartmouth campus, as well as document the construction of Group I, the Arts and Humanities Building. Early photos include meetings at the Capri Hotel. Of particular note in this group are those that include images of preliminary architectural drawings which may now be lost. The bulk of the collection documents Group I construction. There...

Scope and Contents The photographs in this collection are from a number of sources, and were dated by comparing them to photographs reproduced in the BDTS catalogs and similar dated photographs. Most, like the large group of photographs that make up PC1, are public relations and presentation prints depicting equipment and buildings. There are some photographs with students and faculty; of note are class group photographs for 1910-1914 and the 1920s. The first female graduate of the school, and ultimately the...

Scope and Contents The collection includes lantern slides, glass plate negatives, transparencies and photoprints. The bulk of the lantern slides primarily depict students from the New Bedford Textile School operating textile machinery and tools, engaged in classes on topics such as advanced designing, electrical laboratory, motor testing, hand warping, loom, mechanical drawing, and machine shop to name a few. They date to approximately the 1920s and are reproduced in the annual catalogues of the school. The...

Scope and Contents The collection consists of 345 high resolution digital image files created by Reynolds DeWalt printers and book designer Deb Smook. TIFF image files are stored on an Apollo Imation portable hard drive; they are also available on the original storage media, 8 CDs that were provided by Reynolds. It is a nearly complete set of images used in the book. A selection of 197 images from the original 345 were converted to JPEG files and cataloged in the Digital Archive Collection.

Content Description Black and white negatives and contact sheets, and color negatives, contact sheets and color slides. All images taken by Photographics staff, students and outside contractors.