Call Number:

PH-00272

Collection Name:

E. L. Goldbeck High School Panoramic Negatives Photography Collection

Creator:

No. of Items:

16,764 items

Span Dates:

1946-1979

Description:

The collection consists of approximately 16,764 panoramic negatives taken by E. L. (Edward Lyman) Goldbeck (American, 1922-2016) between 1946 and 1979. E. L. Goldbeck was the son of renowned panoramic photographer E. O. (Eugene Omar) Goldbeck (1892-1986) who he began working for as early as 1942. The majority of the negatives are of of high school graduating classes, bands, choirs, and other school groups from across the state of Texas. A few schools in Louisiana, Oklahoma, and New Mexico are also represented. The negatives are housed in their original boxes that usually contain two negatives of the same subject and are differentiated with an "A" or a "B" after the negative number to indicate whether or not the subjects are smiling ("B") or not ("A").

Access Restrictions:

Negatives cannot be paged to the Reading and Viewing Room without advance notice and curatorial permission. For additional information, please contact the Curator of Photography.

Location(s):

Curatorial permission required (Negatives 3451-8179, unnumbered)
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Curatorial permission required (Negatives 1-3450)
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