Arquivo F2861 - Kingston This Week fonds

Fonds consists of photographic negatives along with contact prints, photographs, and some supporting textual records created by Kingston This Week staff photographers between 1986 and 2001. The photographs were taken of Kingston-area events and local people. From 1986 to October 1998, the files consist of black and white negatives along with contact prints and, in some cases, enlarged photographic prints. The negatives in sleeves were stapled to the contact sheets, where produced. In October 1998, colour photography was adopted and the film was processed professionally by an outside company (Camera Kingston). The prints and negatives were then stored together in envelopes. The newspaper moved to digital photography by early 2000 fewer prints were made and, by 2001, the files include black and white reproductions of photographs on plain paper with cutlines and other identifying information attached to the sheets. The fonds is arranged in three large series: Negatives series, consisting of black and white negatives, along with contact sheets, prints, and cutlines in some instances dating from 1986 (with one file from 1985) to October 1998; Binders series, containing negatives dating from 1986 to 1998 which were arranged alphabetically by subject in binders; and Colour photography series, consisting of photographic negatives and prints dating from October 1998 to 2000 and then reproductions from digital files printed on plain paper, with cutlines, dating from ca. 2000-2001.