Class Group Portraits

Photographs: Oversize Prints is an artificial classification for prints larger than legal paper size (8.5 x 14”). These prints, if smaller than oversize, would have been relegated to the subject classifications used for smaller photographs such as portraits, buildings, and so on. A wide range of subject matter and types of images fall into this group. The physical sizes of the prints determined the way in which they were boxed.

When this group of photographs was first organized and described, they were boxed in order relating to their subject, with the first 20 boxes classified as Oversize and boxes 23 to 24 as Oversized Oversize and Miscellaneous. Since then new boxes have been added without distinguishing between large and extra large box sizes.

The following major headings appear in box order. See the Inventory for a more detailed description of box contents.