Administrative Information

Conditions Governing Access

Collection is open to all researchers.

Conditions Governing Use

Before publishing quotations or excerpts from any materials, permission must be obtained from the Special Collections Research Center, and the holder of the copyright, if not Swem Library.

Preferred Citation

C. James Gleason Photographs, Special Collections Research Center, Swem Library, College of William and Mary.

Acquisition Information

The materials were acquired by Special Collections Research Center from Mary Gleason on 09/26/2008.

Biographical Note

Gleason served as College of William and Mary photographer for two decades photographing events, people, locations, etc. related to the University. The native of Cleveland, Ohio, died July 5, 2006, two months after he received the Prentis Award for service to the College and the community. An Air Force veteran, he taught photojournalism at Kent State and Rochester Institute of Technology.

Scope and Contents

Acc. 2009.343 contains contact sheets created by Jim Gleason pertaining to events and activities at the College of William and Mary from 1985-2006.

The collection of James Gleason represents all aspects of events and activities at the College of William and Mary for the years 1983-2006. Events documented include: Charter Day, commencement, buildings, personnel, students, and athletics. Physically the collection is organized by the "rolls of film taken" and into years they were taken. They are stored and protected in plastic sheets in notebooks and numbered for identification.

Related Material

University Archives Photograph Collection (UA 8)

Index Terms

Genre/Form of Material:

• Negatives
• Photographs

Topical Term:

• Athletics
• Charter Day
• College of William and Mary--Commencement
• College of William and Mary--History--20th century.
• Homecoming
• Visitors to Campus

Additional Information