Special Collections and Archives

Exhibit Credits & Acknowledgments · Lafayette Tolliver: Visual Footprints in Time

Special Collections and Archives

Exhibit Credits & Acknowledgments · Lafayette Tolliver: Visual Footprints in Time

Credits, Acknowledgements, and Bibliography

  • Online and physical exhibitions curated and written by Cara Gilgenbach, Head of Kent State Special Collections & Archives.
  • Tolliver archive acquisition, initial processing, scanning, and metadata creation by Lae'l Hughes-Watkins, former Kent State University Archivist (2013 through 2018).
  • Tolliver archive processing, scanning, and metadata creation by Haley Antell, Digitial Initiatives & Outreach Librarian, Kent State Special Collections & Archives.
  • Physical exhibition reproductions and graphical design by Matthew Merton, Senior Graphic Designer, Kent State University Libraries, Communication Office.
  • The subtitle of this exhibit comes from an interview with Tolliver by Jenna Kuczkowski published on KentWired.com (2/10/2015) in which Tolliver describes how he spent much of his college career documenting "visual footprints in time."

The Kent State University Libraries are deeply grateful to Lafayette Tolliver for the donation of his archive and his advocacy and support for outreach programs associated with the archive, including the current exhibition.


The following works and archives were consulted during the creation of this exhibition:


The Tolliver archive has been featured in a number of prior exhibitions at Kent State University:

Coming of Age at Kent 1967-71: A Pictorial of Black Student Life by Lafayette Tolliver
Uumbaji Gallery, Oscar Ritchie Hall, October 2014
Curated by Lae’l Hughes-Watkins
 
BUS at 50: Photography of E. Timothy Moore and Lafayette Tolliver
Uumbaji Gallery, Oscar Ritchie Hall, February 21-March 14, 2018
Curated by Lae’l Hughes-Watkins and Idris Kabir Syed
 
The Kent State Shootings: Through the Lenses of Two Photographers
Borowitz Gallery, University Library, 12th floor, August 2016-December 2019
Curated by Lae'l Hughes-Watkins