The Onondaga County Public Library Beauchamp Branch Neighborhood Photodocumentation Project was funded by the New York State Archives and Records Administration's Documentary Heritage Program. The project was intended to create a collection of photographs which would document the African American community served by the Beauchamp Branch Library. Members of the community were asked to bring in personal photographs during four scheduled copy clinics held during May 1994 at the Beauchamp Branch Library. Selected photographs were copied by Ellen Blalock, a professional photographer, using a 35mm camera and black and white film. One set of negatives and two sets of photographs were developed and printed by ProLab, a commercial photographic laboratory. The photographs and negatives were then housed in archival-quality albums. These photographs, including the negatives, are at the main branch of the Onondaga County Public Library, in the Local History/Genealogy Department.
This collection contains photographs contributed by over 20 families living in the Beauchamp Branch Library neighborhood. The photographs include family photographs and photographs of businesses and people in the Beauchamp Branch Library neighborhood. A project guide contains information on the families who contributed the photographs, as well as information on the photographs themselves. Also included in the archives is information on the grant that was used to fund this project, and promotional material used by the library to advertise this collection.
Series 1: Photographs Prints, Negatives and Digital Images
This series encompasses the black and white prints of the grant photographs, the negatives of these photographs, and their digital files saved on a CD and a flash drive. This series also includes duplicate prints, enlargements and mounted display prints of the photographs.
Series 2: DHP Grant Material
This series documents all aspects of the DHP grant for the Beauchamp Branch Library Photodocumentation Project. Files include copies of the grant reports, participant release forms, information on the photo clinics, brochures advertising the project, newspaper clippings and grant publicity, grant employee files, grant supplies and contractual information.
Series 3: Onondaga County Public Library Beauchamp Branch Neighborhood Photodocumentation Project Collection Guide, 1994
This series contains both the draft and the final copy of the project collection guide. This guide is divided into two parts. The first part provides information about the person who supplied in the photographs, and is arranged alphabetically by participant. The second part provides information about the photographs and is arranged by accession number.
The collection is arranged into series based on broad subject categories. Photographs are stored together and arranged in archival albums by accession number, followed by duplicates and display photographs in no particular order. Grant material is arranged in folders and kept in the order that it was donated by the Beauchamp Branch Library.
For online users, a photograph collection is available on New York Heritage. www.newyorkheritage.org
Patron must have a valid OCPL library card.
User must use materials in the Local History and Genealogy Department of
OCPL.
Permission must be obtained from staff for reproduction of any
materials.
Preferred citation for this material is as follows:
Onondaga County Public Library Beauchamp Branch Photodocumentation Project,
1994
Onondaga County Public Library
Local History and Genealogy
Department
MS-17