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Photographs, 1930-ongoing

 Series

Scope and Content Note

The News/Information Office photographs are the largest collection of photographs in the WHOI Image Collection, and offer the most complete visual documentation of WHOI's history. There are tens of thousands of images in the collection showing scientific activities, shipboard operations, events, and portraits.

Dates

  • Creation: 1930-ongoing

Language of Materials

From the Record Group:

The records are in



English.

Access

Open/Restricted: most materials in the collection are available for research; some materials may only be viewed by the Office of Origin or with permission of the Archivist.

Extent

From the Record Group: 36 boxes plus photographs and electronic records (35.25 linear feet)

Arrangement

The collection contains negatives, contact prints, 35mm strip negatives and slides. Four boxes of unprocessed photographs received with acc2010-26 are stored at the end of the paper records.

List of sub-series

  1. Negatives
  2. Contact prints
  3. 35mm strip negatives
  4. Slides

Physical Description

20,000+ images

Repository Details

Part of the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Data Library and Archives Repository

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