A Box in the Archives

Larry Wolf, Archives Research Center, University of Illinois (2025)

Larry Wolf: Box 6: Negatives (2025)
University of Illinois Archives RS 31/13/5

Larry Wolf: Working in the Archives (2025)
Robert Allerton, John Gregg and Friends on Library Terrace
University of Illinois Archives RS 31/13/5 Box 6 Negatives

Robert Allerton Park - Pre-1946 Photo Negative Collection

These negatives were made as part of a project of copying early photographs carried out in the late 1980s and early 1990s at the park. A letter-code classification system for gardens and sculptures was devised in 1995 by Arnold Wajenberg and expanded by David Bowman and Connie Fairchild. A system of number/letter codes is used for the interior rooms of Allerton House & Stable, now the Conference Center. University of Illinois building numbers are used for buildings.

The numbers assigned to these negatives correspond with numbers on prints and slides still in the park collection. All of these negatives have print copies with additional information on the backs at the park.

Arrangement within the number sequences in mainly chronological. The prefix H is added to distinguish the "historic" pre-1946 photos from the post-1946 collection also at the park. Numbers missing from the negative sequences have been assigned to prints at the park that don't have negatives.

Connie Fairchild, Allerton Park volunteer
March 28, 2006