Photographer Allen Porter created the photographs and negatives in this collection while employed for Mesa State College or his personal photography business. Subjects of the photographs include faculty and staff at the college, construction projects, college groups, athletics and college royalty attendants. This collection also includes photographs relating to Grand Junction such as aerial photographs of the city and photos of Wayne Aspinall, including Aspinall’s second wedding in Washington, D.C. Items in the collection date from 1950-1976 but materials are predominantly from the 1960s and 1970s.