Colorado Mesa University Campus Photograph collection

Digital Record

Identifier: CMU-UA-016

Staff Only

Mesa College cheerleaders pose with the Mesa College sign

Dates

Creation: 1925-2005

Summary

Photographic prints, negatives, and slides of Colorado Mesa University and its campuses throughout its history.

Summary

The Colorado Mesa University Campus Photograph collection includes photographic prints, negatives, and slides of photographs taken by professional studios, Criterion staff photographers, yearbook photographers, and staff in the Office of Marketing and Communications and its earlier iterations. The physical photographs, negatives, and slides date from 1925 to around 2005 when photography on campus shifted from film to entirely digital. Digital photographs can be requested from the Office of Marketing and Communications or Special Collections and Archives.

Conditions Governing Access

Open for research in Tomlinson Library Special Collections and Archives. Please make an appointment at archives@coloradomesa.edu to ensure staff availability.

Conditions Governing Use

It is the responsibility of the user to obtain permission to publish from the owner of the copyright (the institution, the creator of the record, the author or his/her transferees, heirs, legates, or literary executors). The user agrees to indemnify and hold harmless Colorado Mesa University, Tomlinson Library, its administrators, employees, and agents from and against all claims made by any person asserting that they are an owner of copyright.

Biographical / Historical

On April 20, 1925, Governor Clarence Morley and Lieutenant Governor Sterling Lacy signed Senate Bill 262, founding Grand Junction Junior College. The first photographs of Grand Junction Junior College are of its first football team in October of 1925 and its first class in 1926 taken by local photography studio Dean Studio. The number of photographs of the students and activities of the institution remained few until the late 1930s with the majority focused on the athletic teams and a few theatrical productions. Once the students started to produce a more professional newspaper and yearbooks in the 1930s, the number of photographs significantly increased. With the addition of promotional photography for the institution in the 1960s, the amount of photographic material continued to proliferate until today when the university produces hundreds to thousands of digital photographs each academic year.

Language of Materials

English

Additional Description

Immediate Source of Acquisition

Material in the collection has been transferred by the Criterion staff in student life and the Office of Marketing and Communications or donated by alumni.