Photograph Collection Description
Series 1: Campaign, (1976-2004)
This series is dedicated to Gephardt's campaign career. Congressional Campaigns, Presidential 1988, and Presidential 2004 comprise the subseries. The photographs are loosely arranged by subject according to a controlled vocabulary. The folders feature standard campaign activities including door-to-door campaigning, street festivals, and labor conferences. This series also features group commercials, official family portraits, campaign trail events, and subsequent endorsements.
Series 2: Legislative/Aldermanic, (1975-1976)
This series has no subseries and comprises one box of materials relating to his election as St. Louis alderman and his official duties. Photographs include award presentations, answering constituent questions, official portraits, and campaigning on behalf of fellow Democrat Stuart Symington.
Series 3: Legislative/Congressional, (1975-2004)
Although this series does not contain any subseries, it covers the entire range of Gephardt's Congressional career. The series is arranged by subject according to a controlled vocabulary. It features Gephardt in a range of activities relating to his administrative duties including speeches, press conferences, rallies, debates, events, award ceremonies, and constituent relations both at home and abroad. This series also includes interaction with government officials, celebrities, activist, and musicians.
Series 4: Personal/Family, (1944-2000)
These three boxes (no subseries) relate to Gephardt's family, personal appearances, colleagues, and childhood. Gephardt's boyhood home, a family vacation to North Carolina, and a Gephardt family BBQ with the United Auto Workers are all examples of this series.
Series 5: Negatives, (1940-2004)
The arrangement of the negatives echoes that of the prints. Subseries include Campaign, Legislative, and Personal/Family. The negatives are the original medium upon which the film was taken.
Series 6: Digital Archive Scans
These are the high quality digitized images of items from the Collection created for use on the Gephardt website.
Series 7: Slides, (1980-2000)
Subject matter in this series includes constituent relations, campaigning, and celebrity visits. These slides were predominately used for presentation in the 1980s.
Series 8: Items Removed
Oversized items, legal size and larger, as well as Photograph CD ROMs were re-housed and are available to researchers as part of the Gephardt Congressional Photographs. They have not been digitized.
Series 9: Supplementary Collection Documentation, (2007)
This series holds the collection finding aid, negative separation listings, and President of the United States visits negative holdings list. These documents can be used to more thoroughly search the collection.