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Preliminary Guide to the Washington State University Student Media Photographs and Negatives, circa 1977-2002

Overview of the Collection

Creator
Washington State University. Office of Student Media
Title
Preliminary Guide to the Washington State University Student Media Photographs and Negatives
Dates
circa 1977-2002 (inclusive)
Quantity
41 Linear feet of shelf space, (41 Boxes)
Collection Number
UPC0034 (collection)
Summary
Photographs from Washington State University’s student newspaper, the Daily Evergreen, and yearbook, the Chinook, covering student and campus life between 1977 and 2002.
Repository
Washington State University Libraries' Manuscripts, Archives, and Special Collections (MASC)
Manuscripts, Archives, and Special Collections
Terrell Library Suite 12
Pullman, WA
99164-5610
Telephone: 509-335-6691
mascref@wsu.edu
Access Restrictions

This collection is open and available for research use.

Languages
English
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Historical Note

Washington State University’s first student-published newspaper, the College Record, was printed monthly during the 1892-1893 school year. The Evergreen began publication in spring of 1895 and remains in publication. It became known as the Daily Evergreen in 1979. The Chinook is the WSU yearbook, which was first published in 1899. It was produced by the Junior Class until 1926, when the Associated Students of the State College of Washington took control of publishing the yearbook. Since 1974 it has been the responsibility of Student Publishing / Student Media.

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Content Description

This collection consists of an estimated 40,000 Washington State University photographic images created for the Chinook yearbook and the Daily Evergreen student newspaper between 1977 and 2002. Most of the materials are negative strips, with a comparatively small quantity of slides and photographic prints. Some of the images are described and dated; some have no information whatsoever.

Box 1. 1996-1999. Black and white prints, negatives, positives, two slides, primarily of WSU Theater but some prints are miscellaneous. No apparent order. Materials are dirty.

Box 2. 1973-1983. Negatives of students and campus activities (most from 1982 or 1983). Negatives are housed in tissue paper envelopes and labeled with folder numbers, but there are no folders in this box, rather grouped by folder number and bound by paper clips.

Box 3. 1982-1983. Negatives of students and campus activities. Negatives are housed in tissue paper envelopes and labeled with folder numbers, but there are no folders in this box, rather grouped by folder number and bound by paper clips.

Box 4. 1992-1996. Negatives and prints of WSU sports (but also includes a series of campus events and performances from November 2, 1992 to December 16, 1992). Photographs of sports are separated by sport and housed in envelopes with basic description of the sport, date, and opponent.

Box 5. 1892-1968. Chinook microfilm rolls from 1899-1962, and Daily Evergreen microfilm roles from 1892-1968 (These have since been removed the relevant areas in WSU Publications collection; box 5 no longer exists.). The microfilm boxes are not organized, but could be easily placed in order.

Box 6. 1992-1993. Negatives and positives of Daily Evergreen photograph, including sports and general photographs between January 8, 1993 to May 4, 1993. Organized according to sport and then date.

Box 7. 1993-1995. Negatives and prints of Daily Evergreen photographs, with whole sections of: January 13, 1994 to April 21, 1994, then August 19, 1993 to December 15, 1993, then sporadic dates. Some order (see description note).

Box 8. 1995-1996. Negatives, positives, prints, and related papers of Daily Evergreen photographs, including some folders of WSU sports. Folders with sports are partially organized, but folder labels do not correspond with the contents.

Box 9. 1995-1996. An assortment of negatives, positives, and prints of Daily photographs of campus activities. Not organized, but a majority of the photographs are contained in labeled envelopes.

Box 10. 1989. Negatives and positives of students and campus activities from August 10, 1989 to December 19, 1989. Organized by envelope and date.

Box 11. 1983. Negatives of students and campus activities. Negatives are housed in tissue paper envelopes and labeled with folder numbers, but there are no folders in this box, rather grouped by folder number and bound by paper clips.

Box 12. 1989-1990. Negative and positives of students and campus activities from March 1, 1989 to May 3, 1989, then January 6, 1990 to May 8, 1990 , and miscellaneous negatives. Dated folders are organized by envelope and date.

Box 13. 1981-1982. Negatives of students and campus activities (mainly 1981). Negatives are housed in tissue paper envelopes and labeled with folder numbers, but there are no folders in this box, rather grouped by folder number and bound by paper clips.

Box 14. 1979-1985. Negatives of students and campus activities (mainly 1979). Negatives are housed in tissue paper envelopes and labeled with folder numbers, but there are no folders in this box, rather grouped by folder number and bound by paper clips.

Box 15. 1980-1982. Negatives of students and campus activities (mainly 1980 and 1982). Negatives are housed in tissue paper envelopes and labeled with folder numbers, but there are no folders in this box, rather grouped by folder number and bound by paper clips.

Box 16. 1981-1982. Negatives of students and campus activities (mainly 1981). Negatives are housed in tissue paper envelopes and labeled with folder numbers, but there are no folders in this box, rather grouped by folder number and bound by paper clips

Box 17. 1981-1984. Photographic slides of athletics, primarily basketball and football (1981-1984). Individuals slides are unlabeled, but they are in about 40 boxes of 36 slides each, and many of the boxes are labeled.

Box 18. 1980s-1990s. Empty plastic sleeves for negative strips with folder and negative information. No order.

Box 19. 1980-1982. Negatives of students and campus activities (mainly 1980). Most negatives are housed in tissue paper envelopes and labeled with folder numbers, but there are no folders in this box, rather grouped by folder number and bound by paper clips, and some are loose.

Box 20. 1993-1999. Various negatives, including those of campus concerts and WSU and U of I sports. Some loose sheets of negatives, but also containing labeled envelopes with corresponding negatives

Box 21. 1983-1985. Negatives of students and campus activities (mainly 1985). Negatives are housed in tissue paper envelopes and labeled with folder numbers, but there are no folders in this box, rather grouped by folder number and bound by paper clips.

Box 22. 1983-1984. Negatives of students and campus activities (mainly 1984). Negatives are housed in tissue paper envelopes and labeled with folder numbers, but there are no folders in this box, rather grouped by folder number and bound by paper clips.

Box 23. 1990-1997. Negatives and positives of campus activities, including WSU sports, as well as black and white prints of individuals and administration (mainly 1997). Photographs are in folders, but they do not correspond with the contents.

Box 24. 1995-1997. Negatives, positives, prints, and related papers of campus activities, including some folders of WSU sports ( mainly 1996-1997). Photographs are in folders, but they do not correspond with the contents, and some organization exist within the envelopes of sports.

Box 25. 1990-1998. Negatives, positives, prints, and related papers of campus activities. Photographs are in folders, but they do not correspond with the contents, and also includes loose negatives. Loose negatives are curled.

Box 26. 1977-1979. Negatives of students and campus activities (mainly 1979). Negatives are housed in tissue paper envelopes and labeled with folder numbers, but there are no folders in this box, rather grouped by folder number and bound by paper clips.

Box 27. 1991-1992. Negative and positives of students and campus activities from August 1, 1991 to December 7, 1991, then January 1992 to April 1992, and miscellaneous negatives. Some loose sheets of negatives, but also containing labeled envelopes with corresponding negatives.

Box 28. 1982-1984. Negatives of students and campus activities (mainly 1984). Negatives are housed in tissue paper envelopes and labeled with folder numbers, but there are no folders in this box, rather grouped by folder number and bound by paper clips.

Box 29. 1992-1991. Negative and positives of students and campus activities from August 13, 1990 to December 16, 1990, then January 10, 1991 to April 18, 1990, and miscellaneous negatives in labeled envelopes. Partially organized by date and envelopes.

Box 30. 1904 - 1995. Negatives, positives, microfilm of Chinooks (1904-1975), and slides of students and campus activities, including and WSU sports (1979-1980s). Organized within each box of slides.

Box 31. 1986-1987. Prints and negatives of campus activities, including Greek Row events for 1986. Prints are housed in envelopes from the developer and contain the corresponding negatives.

Box 32. 1989-1990. Negatives and positives of WSU sports for the academic year of Fall 1989 and Spring 1990. Organized according to sport and then date within envelopes and by date in box.

Box 33. 1983-1985. Negatives of students and campus activities (mainly 1983). Negatives are housed in tissue paper envelopes and labeled with folder numbers, but there are no folders in this box, rather grouped by folder number and bound by paper clips.

Box 34. 1979-1998. A few large prints from 1998, but primarily negatives of students and campus activities (mainly 1979). Negatives are housed in tissue paper envelopes and labeled with folder numbers, but there are no folders in this box, rather grouped by folder number and bound by paper clips.

Box 35. 1995-2001. Prints, negatives, positives, and slides of miscellaneous photographs, as well as a poster, note pad with Spanish class notes, copy of the July 31, 1995 Evergreen newspaper, photograph equipment manuals, as well as miscellaneous postcards and papers. No order. Prints are curled.

Box 36. 1992-1995. Negatives and positives of campus activities, including WSU sports (mainly 1994-1995). Some organization according to envelopes with sport photographs.

Box 37. 1986-1988. Three ring folders with indexes for folders of negatives and then two folders with negatives (but only 1988). Organized by folder and date.

Box 38. 1986-2002. Negatives (including long strips of large color negatives), slides, prints, floppy disk, and miscellaneous papers of campus activities, including WSU sports. No order.

Box 39. 1986-1988. Three ring folders with negatives (mainly 1986). Organized by folder and date.

Box 40. 1995-1999. Negatives, positives, and prints of campus activities, including WSU sports, as well as miscellaneous papers, photography equipment manuals, and files of newspaper clippings. Slight organization of sport photographs in labeled envelopes.

Box 41. 1987-1988. Color prints and corresponding negatives of campus activities (mainly WSU sports) and three ring folders with negatives (mainly 1988). Envelopes with photographs have labels indicating subject, year, and file name.

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Use of the Collection

Restrictions on Use

Copyright restrictions apply.

Preferred Citation

[Item description]

Preliminary Guide to the Washington State University Student Media Photographs and Negatives, circa 1977-2002 (UPC0034)

Manuscripts, Archives, and Special Collections, Washington State University Libraries, Pullman, WA.

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Administrative Information

Arrangement

This is an unprocessed collection. Any arrangement reflects either a pre-existing order from the records' creators or previous custodians, or preliminary sorting performed by staff.

The collection is retained in the order in which it was received. There is limited organization - a majority of the boxes contain a specific year(s), but few are in chronological or thematic order. The box summary descriptions here predate foldering for many of the boxes. Most boxes are uniform in their contents - while some materials are unlabeled and undated and in no order, and other materials are neatly labeled, ordered, and dated, those conditions will generally be the same for all materials in a given box. Where labeling and dates exist, they were typed out in detail by Aneesa Turner-Rahman in 2020-2021.

Location of Collection

(MASC STAFF USE) 3-19-01-1

Acquisition Information

The provenance of this collection is unknown. Presumably the materials were transferred direct to WSU MASC from the office of Student Media, likely in the mid to late 2000s, but no documentation exists of this.

Processing Note

Needs appraisal. While portions of this could easily be reorganized and processed, the unlabeled and undated materials might best simply be discarded due to both bulk and the sheer impossibility of identifying images.

Separated Materials

As noted in the box level descriptions, Evergreen and Chinook microfilm has been moved elsewhere.

Related Materials

WSU MASC holds several other collections of Office of Student Media (Evergreen / Chinook) images.

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Detailed Description of the Collection

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Corporate Names

  • Washington State University. Office of Student Media -- Photographs
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