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  • Aderman Slide Inventory
  • Over 2,900 slides spanning 1966-1993. Extensive coverage of Europe, as well as Israel, Egypt, Australia, New Zealand, Alaska and western Canada.

  • AGSL Digital Collections Portal

    Over 11,000 images from multiple photographic collections are found on the AGSL Digital Collections Portal. Selected images from the AGSL print archive can be seen through the work of the UWM Libraries Digitization Department, who continuously add new images to the digital archive.

    Photographers represented in the portal include Harrison Forman, Harold Mayer, Clarence W. Sorensen, Eugene V. Harris, William O. Field, and many others.

  • Forman Photo Inventory
  • 4,000 prints and negatives spanning the 1920's through 1970's. Coverage spans seven populated regions of the world, with emphasis on China and Indonesia. Events covered Forman's Tibet imagery, the Sino-Japanese War, Chinese Civil War, the Henan Famine, and the Blitzkrieg of Poland in World War II.

  • Kerr Slide Inventory

    900 plus slides taken between 1967-1977 covering 10 European countries, focusing on England and Ireland.

  • Sorensen Photo Inventory

    The Sorensen Photo Inventory includes 32,000 contact prints and negatives spanning 1940-1970. Coverage includes all seven populated regions of the world, with emphasis on manufacturing and rural agriculture. Geographical emphasis on South America, South Asia, the Mediterranean, and western United States & Canada.

 


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