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Norris Mode photographs

 Collection
Identifier: 2008_123-UA

Photographs relating to the University of Louisville taken by Norris Mode. Subjects include sports (primarily basketball and football, but a few images of track and baseball as well); campus events including special guests and homecoming festivities; the "education-by-air," ROTC and other programs; the 25th anniversary of the Speed Scientific School (now the J.B. Speed School of Engineering); the marching band; and buildings under construction/renovation or newly built/renovated. Includes a substantial number of images of John W. Taylor, president of the University of Louisville from 1947 to 1950.

Dates

  • 1938-1985
  • Majority of material found within 1947-1960

Creator

Conditions Governing Use

Copyright has been transferred to the University of Louisville. Credit must be given to the photographer when these images are used. Please consult a reference archivist for more information.

Extent

2.375 linear feet (4 photograph boxes, 1 flat box)

Biographical / Historical

Photographer Norris Mode began working for the Louisville Courier-Journal in the early 1930s, and later opened his own studio across the Ohio River in Jeffersonville, Indiana. In 1951, he joined the staff of the Miami Daily News, where he remained for about three years before returning to the Louisville area. He passed away in 1996. Mode was a fan of the University of Louisville and travelled with the basketball team to Florida and California; the collection contains many images from those trips, as well as from games.

Creator

Title
Norris Mode Photographs
Status
Completed
Author
Carrie Daniels
Description rules
Describing Archives: A Content Standard
Language of description
English
Script of description
Latin
Language of description note
Finding aid is in English.

Repository Details

Part of the University of Louisville Archives and Special Collections Repository

Contact:
Ekstrom Library, Lower Level Room 17
Louisville KY 40292
502 852-6752