Finding aid for the Milhaupt-Dabakey Colorama Studio collection Collection 326 This finding aid was produced using ArchivesSpace on March 14, 2018. Describing Archives: A Content Standard Grand Rapids Public Library, Grand Rapids History and Special Collections Department 111 Library Street NE Grand Rapids, Michigan 49503 [email protected] URL: http://www.grpl.org Finding aid for the Milhaupt-Dabakey Colorama Studio collection Collection 326 Table of Contents Summary Information .................................................................................................................................... 4 Scope and Contents ........................................................................................................................................ 4 Arrangement ................................................................................................................................................... 5 Administrative Information ............................................................................................................................ 6 Related Materials ........................................................................................................................................... 6 Collection Inventory ....................................................................................................................................... 6 Series I. Biographical/Historical ................................................................................................................. 6 Dabakey ..................................................................................................................................................... 6 Milhaupt .................................................................................................................................................... 7 Series II. Photographic Prints ..................................................................................................................... 7 Subseries A. Original prints from the donor. ........................................................................................... 7 Subseries B. Colorama Prints previously in Coll. 054 .......................................................................... 12 Subseries C. Small photoprints found housed with the 4x5 negatives. ................................................. 12 Subseries D. New Prints made from the negatives. Gerald Ford Images. Unprocessed. ....................... 12 Series III. Negatives. ................................................................................................................................. 15 1941-1953 ................................................................................................................................................ 15 1954 ......................................................................................................................................................... 15 1955 ......................................................................................................................................................... 17 1956 ......................................................................................................................................................... 17 1957 ......................................................................................................................................................... 18 1959 ......................................................................................................................................................... 19 1960 ......................................................................................................................................................... 19 1961 ......................................................................................................................................................... 36 1962 ......................................................................................................................................................... 50 1963 ......................................................................................................................................................... 62 1964 ......................................................................................................................................................... 77 1965 ......................................................................................................................................................... 91 1966 ....................................................................................................................................................... 117 1967 ....................................................................................................................................................... 132 1968 ....................................................................................................................................................... 139 1969 ....................................................................................................................................................... 143 1970 ....................................................................................................................................................... 148 1971 ....................................................................................................................................................... 149 - Page 2 - Finding aid for the Milhaupt-Dabakey Colorama Studio collection Collection 326 1972 ....................................................................................................................................................... 149 1973 ....................................................................................................................................................... 150 1974 ....................................................................................................................................................... 151 1975 ....................................................................................................................................................... 151 1976 ....................................................................................................................................................... 152 1979 ....................................................................................................................................................... 152 1980s ..................................................................................................................................................... 152 Dates unknown ..................................................................................................................................... 153 Newspaper clippings ............................................................................................................................. 153 - Page 3 - Finding aid for the Milhaupt-Dabakey Colorama Studio collection Collection 326 Summary Information Repository: Grand Rapids Public Library, Grand Rapids History and Special Collections Department Title: Milhaupt-Dabakey Colorama Studio collection ID: Collection 326 Date: no date Physical Description: 11.7 Linear Feet Language of the English Material: Abstract: The Milhaupt-Dabakey Colorama Studio Collection contains images, mostly in the form of 4x5 negatives, of primarily Grand Rapids, Michigan events, places & people. The images were created by the photographers John Milhaupt, or x Dabakey, for four different news organizations 1) Grand Rapids Press 2) Detroit Free Press 3) United Press Service (UPI) 4) , from 19xx to 19xx. As such, these images may sometimes, but not always, be found used as part of news stories associated with those news organizations. Also included in the collection are black & white photographic prints, primarily of fellow photographers. A few negatives are found in the collection that are actually Robinson Studio Negatives, a remainder of John Milhaupt's days as a photographer with that separate Grand Rapids studio. Also now being attached to this collection are random small or unknown accessions of Colorama Studio Photos, culled from the generic Grand Rapids Public Library Photo Collection (Coll. 054). Other Colorama Studio photographic prints may exist in other distinct collections within the GRHSC archives, to be cross-referenced to this collection as identified. News story clippings, which show the use of the images & provide additional information, are being added to the collection, as they become available. ^ Return to Table of Contents Scope and Contents The Milhaupt Dabakey Colorama Studio Collection represents only a small portion of the photography of the studio, the largest share being personal and family photography not collected by the GRHSC department. - Page 4- Finding aid for the Milhaupt-Dabakey Colorama Studio collection Collection 326 Other images of the type collected here exist, but have been distributed by Milhaupt to other institutions or clients. Such images may be found occasionally represented in the Colorama photographic prints, now being attached to this collection, or found within other archival collections in the GRHSC Archives. John Milhaupt reports that the negatives with a corner cut off are those which were actually chosen for use and sent to a source for a story. Others were