Series XV: Columbiana Negatives

Scope and content:

Original and copy negatives depicting a variety of subjects and individuals associated with Columbia University. Negatives are primarily 4x5 in size. Other sizes include 8x10, 5x7, 35mm, 120mm, and slides. Many of the negatives are on Safety Film (one will notice an "SF" in the corner of the negative envelope to signify this). There are also silver gelatin and glossy negatives within this collection. Most of the negatives are in black and white, but there are some that are color negatives. Before the advent of digital scanning, copy negatives were often created from original photos to create duplicate prints. This series is comprised of many such negatives created for past patrons.

Some negatives included in this series are negatives of articles, books, drawings/sketches/etchings/paintings, etc. One will notice that there are two titles concerning coffeepots—one is "Myers Coffeepot," the other is "Johnson, Samuel—Coffeepot." It appears that the coffeepots depicted are identical, however, these were the titles assigned them and processing did not deviate from that.

Please note that box numbering for this series re-starts from Box 1.

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