{"id":54024,"date":"2026-07-15T17:12:34","date_gmt":"2026-07-15T21:12:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/libapps.libraries.uc.edu\/liblog\/?p=54024"},"modified":"2026-07-15T17:15:12","modified_gmt":"2026-07-15T21:15:12","slug":"looking-for-photos-of-uc-if-so-check-the-university-photographs-collection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/libapps.libraries.uc.edu\/liblog\/2026\/07\/looking-for-photos-of-uc-if-so-check-the-university-photographs-collection\/","title":{"rendered":"Looking for Photos of UC?\u00a0 If so, check the University Photographs Collection"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Over the years, the Archives and Rare Books Library (ARB) has acquired numerous photographs of UC\u2019s campus, university events, student activities, and academic departments.\u00a0 ARB\u2019s largest collection of photographs related to the University of Cincinnati, though, is the University of Cincinnati photographs collection.\u00a0 The first materials in this collection came to ARB in 1977 and the photographs were organized in what archivists and librarians often call \u201csubject files.\u201d\u00a0 This means that photos were grouped together according to subject matter.\u00a0 Over the years, Public Relations and ARB staff added to the collection, and over the years, due to heavy use, photographs got misfiled into the wrong subject files.\u00a0 Making the collection even more confusing, the collection was never fully inventoried nor was a finding aid created.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n

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An aerial view of the University of Cincinnati’s west campus dated 1922 from the University Photographs collection.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

In the Fall of 2024, ARB student worker, Sophia Sheppard , began working on this project.  We could have approached this collection in several different ways, but since there was little information indicating where individual photographs came from, we decided to keep these photographs together as they were and to organize it and describe it as best we could.  Sophia took the files out of the filing cabinets in which they had been stored, moved them into archival boxes, refiled misfiled photographs and created an online finding aid.  It was a daunting undertaking since many photographs were not labeled, and Sophia had to do some research to get photographs into the right places.<\/p>\n\n\n

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A photo outside of Raymond Walters College, now UC Blue Ash from the University Photographs collection.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

The online finding aid<\/a> has been available since 2025, and the collection is largely complete, but we continue to add material as we process it.  We recently added two additional boxes of oversize photographs to the finding aid.  The collection is organized alphabetically into files by subject matter and the photographs date as far back as the 1890s and as recent as the early 2000s.  The collection covers a wide variety of topics related to the University of Cincinnati and its students, faculty, and staff.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In this collection, researchers can find photographs of various athletic events and athletic eams from the early 20th<\/sup> century through the early 21st<\/sup> century.\u00a0 There are photos of campus buildings, including buildings that no longer exist.\u00a0 The photographs cover all of UC\u2019s campus\u2019s including the main campus, medical campus, Clermont College and UC Blue Ash, and include aerial shots that demonstrate the growth of UC.\u00a0 \u00a0There are photos of students and faculty in classrooms, laboratories and workshops.\u00a0 The collection also includes photographs of some of UC\u2019s predecessor schools such as the Cincinnati College of Music.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n

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A winter scene on UC’s west campus from the University Photographs collection<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

Are you interested in coming into the Archives and Rare Books Library to browse through this collection?  Do you have questions about the photographs in this collection or other photographs that may be found in the Archives and Rare Books Library?  If so, please contact the Archives and Rare Books Library at archives@ucmail.uc.edu<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Over the years, the Archives and Rare Books Library (ARB) has acquired numerous photographs of UC\u2019s campus, university events, student activities, and academic departments.\u00a0 ARB\u2019s largest collection of photographs related to the University of Cincinnati, though, is the University of … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,31],"tags":[66],"class_list":["post-54024","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arb","category-uc","tag-university-archives"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/libapps.libraries.uc.edu\/liblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54024","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/libapps.libraries.uc.edu\/liblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/libapps.libraries.uc.edu\/liblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libapps.libraries.uc.edu\/liblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libapps.libraries.uc.edu\/liblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=54024"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/libapps.libraries.uc.edu\/liblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54024\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":54030,"href":"https:\/\/libapps.libraries.uc.edu\/liblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54024\/revisions\/54030"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/libapps.libraries.uc.edu\/liblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54024"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libapps.libraries.uc.edu\/liblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54024"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libapps.libraries.uc.edu\/liblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54024"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}