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• Collection: Guide Records

• Title: Rogovin photograph collection
• Other Title: Milton Rogovin photograph collection
• Creator(s): Rogovin, Milton, 1909-2011, photographer Rogovin, Milton, 1909-2011, donor
• Date Created/Published: 1950-2002, bulk 1962-1990.
• Medium: ca. 1,130 photographic prints : gelatin silver ; 11 x 17 in. or smaller.
  ca. 2,500 contact sheets : gelatin silver ; 8 x 10 in. or smaller.
  ca. 29,700 negatives : b&w ; 2.25 x 2.25 in.
• Summary: The Milton Rogovin photograph collection consists of portraits of workers, particularly miners, from all over the world. The collection also documents life in working class neighborhoods of Buffalo, N.Y. Many people are depicted at work and at home; some were re-photographed over the course of four decades.
• Reproduction Number: ---
• Rights Advisory: Publication may be restricted. For information see "Milton Rogovin"(http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/res/162_rogo.html)
  
• Call Number: Guide Record [P&P]
• Repository: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA
• Notes:
  • Arrangement: Photographic prints are organized by project and have the filing designation "LOT." Each LOT has contact sheets showing all the negative frames and larger selected prints chosen by Rogovin from the contact sheets. Arrangement: Corresponding negatives (organized by photographic project) have the call number prefix: LC-RG15. Arrangement: The collection also includes selected prints depicting various subjects representing a cross section of Rogovin's work. These have the call number designation "PH." Arrangement: Collection also includes Supplementary Archives.
  • Milton Rogovin (b. 1909) began his career as a social documentary photographer in 1958. He has spent four decades photographing working people around the world and life in the poorer neighborhoods in and around his home of Buffalo, N.Y. His photographs document, with touching dignity, the life of late twentieth-century miners and urban dwellers. Rogovin describes his work in terms of six "photo series:" Store Front Churches; Family of Miners; Lower West Side (including Diptychs and Triptychs); Working people; and photographs of Chile.
  • Collection title devised by Library staff.
  • Gift; Milton Rogovin; 1999; (DLC/PP-1999:085).
  • Gift; Mark Rogovin; 1999; (DLC/PP-1999:059).
  • Gift; Paula Rogovin; 1999; (DLC/PP-1999:060).
  • Gift; Ellen Rogovin Hart; 1999; (DLC/PP-1999:061).
  • LOT 13529, no. 93; Gift; Rogovin family; (DLC/PP-2004:083).
  • Selected prints; Gift & purchase; Milton Rogovin; 1969-1980.
  • Collection overview, http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/coll/238_rogo.html
• Subjects:
  • Buffalo (N.Y.)--1950-2010.
  • Working class--1950-2010.
  • Miners--1950-2010.
  • Domestic life--1950-2010.
  • Families--1950-2010.
• Format:
  • Contact sheets--1950-2010.
  • Film negatives--1950-2010.
  • Gelatin silver prints--1950-2010.
  • Group portraits--1950-2010.
  • Portraits--1950-2010.
• Collections:
  • Guide Records
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• Rights Advisory: Publication may be restricted. For information see "Milton Rogovin" http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/res/162_rogo.html
• Reproduction Number: ---
• Call Number: Guide Record [P&P]
• Medium: ca. 1,130 photographic prints : gelatin silver ; 11 x 17 in. or smaller.
  ca. 2,500 contact sheets : gelatin silver ; 8 x 10 in. or smaller.
  ca. 29,700 negatives : b&w ; 2.25 x 2.25 in.

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• Call Number: Guide Record [P&P]
• Medium: ca. 1,130 photographic prints : gelatin silver ; 11 x 17 in. or smaller.
  ca. 2,500 contact sheets : gelatin silver ; 8 x 10 in. or smaller.
  ca. 29,700 negatives : b&w ; 2.25 x 2.25 in.

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