This is a composite collection consisting of material already in the University Archives as well as considerable additional material that came to the University Archives in the summer of 2012, as part of the process of clearing the Malcolm Price Laboratory School building after the school's closing in June 2012.

Boxes 1 and 2 are student and staff portrait photographs. They consist primarily of photographic sheets with individual photographs of students and staff in each school grade. Some of the sheets are well-identified, some are partially identified, and some are not identified at all. CDs accompany the prints of some of the later years. The processor of this collection has not yet verified the contents of the CDs, but they likely contain the images that appear on the prints.

Boxes 3-15 are photographic prints and negatives relating to the students, staff, and activities of the Price Laboratory School.

Boxes 3-15 are a treasure trove of photographic prints and negatives documenting the students, staff, and activities of the Price Laboratory School from 1984-2000. When this material arrived in the University Archives in the summer and fall of 2012, it was in large three ring binders labeled "Photo Log" and "PLS Photos". Lynn Dykstra and other members of the Price Laboratory School faculty and staff took these photographs and maintained this collection. Each binder included material in labeled envelopes from a school year or a portion of a school year. Material was arranged in chronological order. Brief notes on most envelopes described the general contents of the envelopes: for example, Beginning Reading Conference or Custodians. The envelope notes also usually included a date, though this date could be either the date on which an event happened or the date on which the film was developed. In so far as possible, the processor of this collection maintained the chronological order in which the material arrived. The contents of each envelope were placed into folders labeled almost exactly according to the notes found on the envelopes. However, the processor noted that there was not an exact correspondence between the prints and negatives in each envelope. There were frequently many more negatives than prints, or vice versa, and, occasionally, there were either no negatives or no prints at all. What is more, the labels did not completely describe what was depicted in the prints or negatives: there were often more or fewer subjects covered in the prints or negatives than the label stated. But, at least in the initial stage of arrangement, the processor chose to stay as close as possible to the original envelope notes. Much more detailed arrangement remains to be done. Consequently, the researcher will need to be flexible in his strategy. There may well be considerably more or less on the prints and negatives than the folder label states.---Gerald L. Peterson

Box 16 contains photographs of athletics teams and performance groups, such as choirs and bands.

Box 17 contains photographs from small albums and discrete collections apparently made for specific occasions or purposes.

Boxes 18-21 contains unprocessed and unidentified photographs.