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CC-23 Photographs

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Collection Inventory

CC-23.1A Early Centre College Photograph Collection

This collection consists of photographic prints dating from the nineteenth century to the 1960s. All have been digitized. The images with their descriptive metadata can be browsed or searched at Omeka.net. Oversize photographs from this collection are located in the top drawer of the flat map case. The images in Omeka are scaled jpeg files suitable for viewing. Each photograph is also available in a tiff format, scanned at 100% size, 24-bit color, and 400 dpi.

Sub-groups include:

  • 01 Caldwell College and Kentucky College for Women
  • 03 Athletics
  • 04 Buildings and Campus
  • 05 Students
  • 06 Faculty and Presidents
  • 07 Danville and Boyle County
  • 08 Student Social Life

CC-23.1B Charles A. Thomas Photograph Collection

Charles A. Thomas served as Centre's official photographer during the late 1950s and early 1960s. Although characterized by his often formal and posed style, Thomas captured the college during a period of tremendous growth and change in the campus and student body. Thomas also taught printing at the Kentucky School for the Deaf.

All the prints in this collection have been digitized and can be browsed or searched at Omeka.net. The images in Omeka are scaled jpeg files suitable for viewing. Each photograph is also available in a tiff format, scanned at 100%, 8-bit grayscale, and 300 dpi.

Sub-groupings include:

  • Kentucky College for Women Series
  • Centre College Series

CC-23.1C Charles A. Thomas Photograph Collection (Not Digitized)

The photographs in this collection have not been digitized. Many of the prints aren't dated or identified. Sub-groups include:

Box 1 Athletics
Box 2 Baseball and Basketball
Box 3 Football
Box 4 Alumni and Buildings
Box 5 Carnival
Box 6 Commencement and Fine Arts
Box 7 Fraternities and Homecoming
Box 8 Students
Box 9 Students

CC-23.2 Rolled Photographs (Not Digitized)

  • Caldwell College students, undated, but circa 1910 (2 copies)
  • Centenary football team, dated 1922; players are identified
  • Centre students, undated but circa 1920-1922; Old Young, Old Main, and Carnegie Library visible in background (2 copies)
  • Centre students and faculty, dated December 1920, outside Old Main
    Centre students and faculty, dated 1926, outside Old Main
  • Centre students, dated 1927
  • Centre students, dated 1932, outside Old Main
  • Centre vs. Harvard football game at Harvard Stadium, dated October 23, 1920
  • Football team at Fort Worth, Texas, dated 1920-21
  • Football team, dated 1923
  • Football team at the White House, dated 1925
  • Football team, undated (c. 1930s)
  • KCW students, undated but circa 1920s
  • KCW faculty and staff, dated December 1927
  • Kentucky Presbyterian Synod members at an undated meeting on the KCW campus

CC-23.3 Slides (Not Digitized)

Box 1 Miscellaneous slides
Box 2 Miscellaneous slides
Box 3 Miscellaneous slides

CC-23.4 Negatives (Not Digitized)

Box 1 Miscellaneous negatives

CC-23.5 Miscellaneous (Not Digitized)

Box 1 Miscellaneous photographs and slides
Box 2 Old Centre renovation
Box 3 Alumni slide program, 1977
Box 4 Centre College show, 1985

CC-23.6 Slides (Not Digitized)

This collection of color slides dates from the 1980s, and consists of miscellaneous views of Centre College buildings, students, events, and athletics.

Box 1 Academic affairs
Box 2 Alumni affairs
Box 3 Campus buildings
Box 4 Campus buildings
Box 5 Campus buildings
Box 6 Commencement
Box 7 Faculty and students
Box 8 Homecoming
Box 9 Kentucky
Box 10 Miscellaneous
Box 11 Norton Center
Box 12 Norton Center
Box 13 Sports
Box 14 Sports
Box 15 Student affairs
Box 16 Students
Box 17 Students
Box 18 Students

CC-23.7 Oversize Photographs

Box 1 Miscellaneous oversize photographic prints

CC-23.7 Photograph Albums

Volume 1 Graduates, Class of 1878-79
Volume 2 Howard A. Dorsey, 1908-09
Volume 3 Professors and graduates, Class of 1878
Volume 4 Ruby Cheek album. Caldwell College class photographs