Prints, #911-920, 1939-1943

The Edward B. Van Voorhees Visual Materials Collection contains black and white negatives and photographs illustrating Georgia Tech student life and activities, 1939-1943. There are many images of Georgia Tech dances, an NROTC summer cruise, initiations by various student organizations, and student life in general.

The negatives have been scanned and the digital images are available for viewing. Some of the negatives have slight deterioration that may affect the quality of the image. There was one negative that was brittle and broken; it was not scanned, however it appears to be the third of a series of three images of the same woman.

Not all of the images were taken by Edward Van Voorhees. A few photos are credited to other photographers; that information is written on the back of those photos. It is possible that because of Van Voorhees’ association with the Technique, Blueprint, and Camera Club, he may have acquired other students’ work. Additionally, it is possible that other items were intermingled with Van Voorhees’ when a different department used his images for a project in the 1990s. Despite the indefinite origin of some of the materials, it appears that all of the images date from 1939-1943, with only one exception. That exception is a set of four images of a graduation ceremony at Alexander Memorial Coliseum dating from circa 1957.

Although many of the images had little or no original identifications, some negatives were originally identified by a number and brief caption. Any such original information is in parentheses following the item description. A number of the images appear in various issues of the Blueprint; in these instances, the annual date and the page number are provided in brackets following the image description.