University Slide Collection

About

This collection of 35 mm slides includes approximately 70,000 images depicting the university, faculty, staff, and students. This collection comes largely from the university's Photo Services Unit, which ceased operations in 2001. The collection has been supplemented with contributions from individual donors and other campus units. The vast majority of images are in color. Older images are often reproductions of images found in the University Photograph Collection.

Access

Along with the highlighted collections, photographs may be found throughout SCUA's collections in scrapbooks and alongside paper records. Search CARDinal for more information.

Selected images from SCUA's collections are available online in our Digital Collections. Non-digitized images are available for viewing in our Reading Room.

Learn about how you can create or request reproductions of images from SCUA's collections for use in various ways.

Search tips 

To locate images of interest in the University Photograph Collection, please use the Find Function in your computer's browser on this web page to search the tables below. 

Individual faculty, staff, and administrators can be located by looking through photographs related to the departments in which they worked or those with which they were most often identified. The university presidents are an exception, and are listed individually.

Organization

The slide collection uses the same record group system as the University Archives. For convenience, the collection has been broken down into the series listed below. Due to the frequent requests for images of buildings, each building is listed individually.

• Presidents
• Buildings
• Academic, Administrative, and Research Units
• Athletics
• Student and Faculty Groups, Alumni, and General Topics
• Name Index

Presidents

This series lists the University Presidents that are included in the slide collection. In addition, there are several boxes with images of the presidents' families and office staff.

Buildings

This series lists all former and current buildings that are included in the slide collection. For some buildings, interior and exterior shots are available. Folders titled "Campus Scenes" and "Aerial Views" typically highlight more than one building in the image.

Academic, Administrative, and Research Units

This series lists campus units that are represented in the collection. For each department, there may be images of faculty and staff, classroom scenes, and administrative activities. The series is listed alphabetically by title.

Athletics

These images contain individual and team photos, scenes from athletic events, and some casual shots of athletes and coaches. Photos from the Office of the Director of Athletics are listed first, followed by coaches and trainers, and each sport alphabetically thereafter.

Students, Alumni, and General Topics

This series contains images of faculty and student groups such as VEISHEA and homecoming, alumni and former students, and general topics such as campus art, campus flooding, and student protests.

Name Index

This index can help locate people identified in the slide collection. However, there are many other unidentified individuals. If a person you are looking for is not listed here, it may be worthwhile to look at slides of the departments or programs the person was most often associated with. Please also check out the University Photograph Collection.