Neil Croom papers, 1941-1978.

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Neil Croom papers, 1941-1978.

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Over 200 photos, research and lecture notes make up the Neil Croom papers. Photograph subjects include landscapes and nature; most are black and white with a few in color. Other items of note include a glossary of nature and photographic terms created by Croom, lecture notes for classes he taught at RIT, and research materials used in teaching. Photographs, research and lecture notes, articles, and glossary of RIT professor Neil Croom. Croom taught photography in the Fine Arts department from 1956-1978.

4.17 linear feet (3 document boxes, 1 clamshell box, 1 oversize lid box)

RIT Library, Wallace Library

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RIT Library, Wallace Library

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Rochester Institute of Technology. School of Photographic Arts and Sciences

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Croom, Neil,

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Neil Croom was born in Detroit in 1914. He graduated from the New York State College of Forestry and Syracuse University. From 1956 to 1978 he taught nature photography and cinema arts in the Fine Arts Department and School of Photographic Arts and Sciences at RIT, and was instrumental in shaping the program. Croom served in the Army Corps of Engineers, and was an active member of the World Wildlife Federation, Audubon Society, Sierra Club, and in particular, the Cumming Nature Center (a divisio...

Rochester Institute of Technology. College of Fine and Applied Arts

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Rochester institute of technology

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It is unclear when the Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT) first admitted minority students. However, it appears as though the first African American students entered the Rochester Athenaeum and Mechanics Institute (renamed RIT in 1944) during the early 1900s. For instance, in 1906 Fredericka Sprague, the granddaughter of Frederick Douglass, took classes at the Institute. There are several other instances of African American students attending the school during the early 20th century as well...