The Argonaut digital materials
Content Description
This collection contains more than 35,000 born-digital photographs and documents received from The Argonaut student newspaper. Not all photographs taken by the Argonaut staff were used in publication. Includes raw and edited files.
Dates
- Creation: 2000-2017
Creator
- Argonaut. University of Idaho (Organization)
Conditions Governing Access
This collection is open for research.
Biographical / Historical
The Argonaut is the University of Idaho student newspaper produced by Student Media in the Department of Student Involvement. It was first published in 1898. Now, the Argonaut publishes daily to their online edition, while continuing to print limited special issues.
Extent
236 Gigabytes (35,332 files, 1,361 folders) : nef, jpg, pdf, doc, tif files
Language of Materials
English
Abstract
Born-digital photographs and documents received from The Argonaut student newspaper.
Arrangement
When this collection was recieved the files were first arranged into folders by date. Upon processing this collection, it was decided that subject folders would replace the date folders in order to provide researchers with contextrual information. The folders are arranged in alphabetical order. Some folders contain sub-folders to help narrow the scope. The number of files within a given subject folder then determined whether they were organized into folders according to date.
Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements
Please note this collection contains pdfs, docs, jpgs, tiffs, nef, psd and other file formats that may need required software to view.
Existence and Location of Originals
The access files of the digital materials in this collection are located on the Archive drive. Folder path: Processed Collections\University Groups\UG 130 (The Argonaut digital materials/data/Objects/Subjects. Contact University of Idaho Library Special Collections and Archives for access or questions.
Other Descriptive Information
Materials in this collection may contain images, language, or other content that may be offensive or disturbing. These materials are a product of a time and place in history and should be viewed within their historical context. To maintain historical accuracy, the materials appear as they were originally created to serve as historical evidence of the social mindsets, occurrences, behaviors, and norms of their time. They do not reflect the current views of the University of Idaho. For more information about how we treat materials with offensive or disturbing content, please see the University of Idaho Library, Special Collections and Archives Offensive Content Policy.
Cultural context
Topical
- College students
- Aerial photography
- College campuses
- College graduates
- College sorority members
- Colleges and Universities
- Fraternal Organizations
- Greek letter societies
- Idaho
- Journalism
- Journalism, School
- Natural resources
- Nature photography
- Newspaper publishing
- Photographs
- Photography of plants
- Universities and colleges
- Universities and colleges -- Faculty
- Universities and colleges -- Professional staff
- University of Idaho--Students--Societies, etc.
- Women college students
Uniform Title
- Title
- Guide to The Argonaut digital materials
- Status
- Completed
- Author
- Finding aid prepared by Sara Szobody.
- Date
- 2024
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
- Language of description note
- Finding aid written in English.
Repository Details
Part of the University of Idaho Library, Special Collections and Archives Repository