Spartan Daily Negatives Collection
Scope and Content of Collection
The Spartan Daily Negative Collection documents campus life at San Jose State College from 1959 to 1971. The Spartan Daily News, was founded in 1934 and is published four days a week when classes are in session. The publication follows a broadsheet format and boasts a daily print circulation of over 6,000, as well as a daily on-line edition. The newspaper is produced by journalism and advertising students enrolled in SJSU's School of Journalism and Mass Communications. The negatives visually represent student life, athletics, social events, various faculty members, and administrators. Of note are several images that document civil unrest on campus during the Civil Right movement and the anti-war demonstration during the Vietnam War. Views of the ROTC marching on campus, student protest against the ROTC presence on campus, protests again the drat and napalm producers, as well as minority student protests demanding social change in campus life, sports, housing, and curriculum.
Dates
- Creation: 1959-1971
Extent
20 boxes (12.5 linear feet)
Language of Materials
English
Arrangement
This collection is arranged by file number as assigned by the Spartan Daily Department and is approximatley in chronological order.
- Title
- Guide to the Spartan Daily Negatives Collection
- Status
- Completed
- Author
- Danelle Moon
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- Undetermined
- Script of description
- Code for undetermined script
- Language of description note
- English
Repository Details
Part of the SJSU Special Collections & Archives Repository
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Library
San José State University
One Washington Square
San José, CA 95192-0028
(408) 808-2062
(408) 808-2063 (Fax)
special.collections@sjsu.edu