Jimmy Taylor Photographs
Scope and Contents
The Jimmy Taylor Photographs include portraits, many taken for Eastern Kentucky University and local high schools, weddings, organizations, local events, buildings and much more. A portion of Taylor's business included making duplicates for individuals and besides copying and retouching old family photographs he also copied military discharges, family Bibles, vital records, business records and more. This collection consists of over thirty thousand images in various formats including negatives, prints and milk glass, many of which are scanned. Scanned images and descriptions for the entire collection can be [url=https://digitalcollections.eku.edu/items/browse?collection=112]found here[/url].
Dates
- Creation: 1942 - 1970
- Acquisition: 1976-11-11
Creator
- Taylor, James Earl (Person)
- Bee, Ru (Person)
Full Extent
15.75 Cubic Feet
Language of Materials
English
Source of Acquisition
Taylor, Beulah
Processing Information
The collection was mostly processed using Taylor's numbering system. He filed images by the year they were taken and then numbered them consecutively. This system worked for much of his early work, but by the 1960s this system seems to have slacked off to some extent and the numbers were never transferred to the prints. For those images they were numbered consecutively beginning with one.
- Title
- Jimmy Taylor Photographs
- Status
- Completed
- Author
- Hydorn, Kaitlind; Harris, Cherrelle; Cooper, John-Wesley; Donovan, Kayla; Wilk, Mikayla
- Date
- 06/28/2018
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
- Language of description note
- eng
Repository Details
Part of the Eastern Kentucky University Libraries, Research Center for Special Collections and Archives Repository