Lawrence V. Smith Photo Collection
name: label: Creator
content: Smith, Lawrence V. (Lawrence Victor), 1931-2010
acqinfo: label: Provenance
content: Donated to the Archives Center in 2013 by Smith's widow, Linda L. Smith.
creator: label: Creator
content: Smith, Lawrence V. (Lawrence Victor), 1931-2010
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content: Lawrence V. Smith Photo Collection
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 31 Cubic feet (31 boxes)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1970-2010
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives Center, National Museum of American History
identifier: label: Identifier
content: NMAH.AC.1314
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Color slides
processinfo: label: Processing Information
content: Collection is unprocessed.
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: Color slides
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: The collection contains the product of Smith's life's work as an industrial and transportation photographer. It consists of approximately 120,000 35mm color slides of various industrial and transportation subjects. Transportation is the larger subject area, including such topics as trucks, vehicles, transit, traffic, railroads, ships, etc. The slides are captioned and arranged by subject. Within the railroad photographs, a very large number of the slides relate to CSX.
Collection includes a small number of images by other photographers.