Type: Colleges and Universities



Library: Albin O. Kuhn Library & Gallery
Library Web site or Online Catalog: http://aok.lib.umbc.edu/speccoll/
Library Collection Highlights: Among the 1.8 million images held in The Photography Collections are many by Maryland photographers and many by other photographers of Maryland subjects. Prominent photographers in the holdings include Lewis Hine, Jaromir Stephany, John Wood, A. Aubrey Bodine, Roland Freeman, Richard Jaquish, Edward Bafford, and Alexander Gardner.
Library Collection Strengths: The collections are eclectic, but include: portraits, children, African Americans, abstract photographs, landscapes, clothing & dress, farm life, buildings, libraries, universities & colleges, disasters, fires, Baltimore Sun, Baltimore News American, oyster industry, arabbers, harvesting, trains, trains stations, etc.
Library History: The Albin O. Kuhn Library & Gallery was founded in 1966, and the Special Collections, including The Photography Collections were begun in 1974. The mission is to serve the campus, the community, and the State.
Contact: Tom Beck
Title: Chief Curator
E-mail: speccoll@umbc.edu
Telephone: 410-455-2353
Mailing Address: 1000 Hilltop Circle, Baltimore, Maryland 21250



Institution Highlights: At UMBC, learning, research and community connect in new, exciting ways. Professors push the frontiers of knowledge in everything from engineering to classics to social work-and take their students with them. Businesses and institutions are partners in the academic enterprise. And students-more than 10,000 in all, both undergraduate and graduate-receive an education that changes their lives. UMBC students are selected for their aptitude and graduated for their proven ability to succeed. Outstanding at UMBC is the Visual Arts Department with programs emphasizing photography, graphic design, imaging and digital arts, film, video, art history, and new genres. The Library Gallery presents three exhibitions per year, frequently on photography.
Institution Strengths:
Photography
Photographs
Photography library
Institution History: Founded in 1966, UMBC is the youngest of the four original campuses of the University of Maryland. It is ranked in top tier of nation's research universities--Doctoral/Research Universities-Extensive--by the Carnegie Foundation.
Institution Web site: http://www.umbc.edu