78E13A to 78J30A, 1978 - 1978

These are the negatives and contact sheets that comprise most of the prints contained within the collection. The negatives are the original images taken by the photographer, and the contact sheets show small replications of the entire sets of negatives. Many of the negatives and images included in the contact sheets were never printed. The contact sheets themselves seem to have been used to select which photos to enlarge, where to crop, and what to keep. Many of the contact and negative sheets even include more identifying information on the time, place, event, and who than the prints themselves. In many ways, these negatives are necessary to grasp the entire content and context of the individual prints, especially for prints in albums that were not labeled or arranged in any known order.