Burk Uzzle Photograph Collection, 1930s-2010s

Collection Number: 70116

Collection Title: Burk Uzzle Photograph Collection, 1930s-2010s

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Size	40 feet of linear shelf space (approximately 100,000 items)
Abstract	Contains a portion of the photographic archive of white photojournalist Burk Uzzle. Contents include, but are not limited to: Uzzle's Life magazine work from 1962 to 1968; Dunn, N.C., in 1962, with an emphasis on Uzzle's father, who was the city's manager at that time; Uzzle’s hitchhiking trip across the United States in 1964; the period immediately after Martin Luther King's assassination in 1968, including King's funeral; the Woodstock music festival, 1969; refugee camps in Thailand and Cambodia, 1979 and 1980; Liverpool, 1967; Haiti, 1975; Bike Week in Daytona Beach, Fla., during the 1980s; Appalachia and the South, beginning in 2006 and including the African American community in Eastern United States in 2010s. Formats include negatives, 35mm slides, photographic prints, and contact sheets.
Creator	Uzzle, Burk.
Curatorial Unit	University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. North Carolina Collection Photographic Archives.
Language	English

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Copyright Notice: Copyright is retained by the University Libraries, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Preferred Citation: [Identification of item], in the Burk Uzzle Photograph Collection #70116, North Carolina Collection Photographic Archives, Wilson Special Collections Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Acquisitions Information: Received as a gift from the Kohler Foundation, Inc., in December 2021 (Acc. 20211207.6).

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North Carolina native Burk Uzzle (b. 1938) is a white photojournalist and professional photographer. His career began in North Carolina and expanded nationally and internationally. He was the youngest photographer hired by Life magazine. He was a member of the photography agency Magnum Photos from 1967 to 1983, and served as its president in 1979 and 1980. Late in his career he returned to North Carolina and continued his work as a photographer, both in his studio in Wilson, N.C., and on road trips. Uzzle has photographed subject matter relevant to North Carolina and the South, including Black residents living near his studio.

For more detailed biographical information on Burk Uzzle and to learn more about his career, see Burk Uzzle Website: Through Photography My Heart Sings What I Feel: About Burk Uzzle." WHAT I FEEL .

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Contains a portion of the photographic archive of white photojournalist Burk Uzzle. Contents include, but are not limited to: Uzzle's Life magazine work from 1962 to 1968; Dunn, N.C., in 1962, with an emphasis on Uzzle's father, who was the city's manager at that time; Uzzle’s hitchhiking trip across the United States in 1964; the period immediately after Martin Luther King's assassination in 1968, including King's funeral; the Woodstock music festival, 1969; refugee camps in Thailand and Cambodia, 1979 and 1980; Liverpool, 1967; Haiti, 1975; Bike Week in Daytona Beach, Fla., during the 1980s; Appalachia and the South, beginning in 2006 and including the African American community in Eastern United States in 2010s. Additional materials are held at the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C. Formats include negatives, 35mm slides, photographic prints, and contact sheets.

Due to Burk Uzzle's contract work covering war zones and scenes of unrest, there are graphic images in this collection depicting war-zones, injuries, recovery progress, and nudity. Some images in this collection may depict scenes taken at funeral services for family, friends, and public figures including civil rights leader Martin Luther King and U.S. politician Robert F. Kennedy.

Contents list

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1. Photographic Materials, circa 1960s-2010s.
1.1 Exhibits and Selected Projects, circa 1960s-2010s
1.2. Projects and Jobs, circa 1960s-2010s
1.3. Contact Sheets (Chronological), circa 1960s-2010s
1.4. Negatives, circa 1950s-2010s
2. Files, Publications, and Tearsheets, circa 1960s-2010s.
2.1. File Cabinet Files, circa 1960s-2010s
2.2. Publications and Tearsheets, circa 1960s-2010s

Expand/collapse Series 1. Photographic Materials, circa 1960s-2010s.

Approximately 95,000 images.

Arrangement: Original order.

Curated sets of photographic prints and related materials associated with exhibits, projects, or subjects of interest; selected, described, and used by Uzzle throughout his career. Materials in the series are in original order and subseries 1.3 and 1.4 follow a chronological order. A majority of the materials found in this series were made using corresponding film that can be found in subseries 1.4.

Due to Burk Uzzle's contract work covering war zones and scenes of unrest, there are graphic images in this series that may depict war-zones, injuries, recovery progress, and nudity. Some images in this subseries may depict scenes taken at funeral services for family, friends, and public figures including civil rights leader Martin Luther King and U.S. politician Robert F. Kennedy.

Expand/collapse Subseries 1.1 Exhibits and Selected Projects, circa 1960s-2010s

Approximately 4000 images.

Titles and notes in quotation marks were transcribed from original captions or notes found with materials."

"The negative number(s) used to make the photographic prints appear on the verso of many of the prints and the film used to make them can be found with corresponding numbering in subseries 1.4. Most of the images have original descriptions.

Some images in this subseries may depict scenes taken at funeral services for family, friends, and public figures including civil rights leader Martin Luther King and U.S. politician Robert F. Kennedy.

Image Box IB-70116/001	"Cambodia Vintage," circa 1979 Photographic prints, Printed materials 66 images Processing note: These are not sequenced prints. They do not have a negative number but are signed, dated and noted "Cambodia." No acetate (66 prints, 24 dups and triplicate prints)"
Image Box IB-70116/002	"Contemporary Landscapes," circa 2018 Photographic prints, Printed materials 22 images "No acetate"
Image Box IB-70116/003	"Birthing Exotic Pheasants at Moment of Birth," circa 2017 Photographic prints, Printed materials 36 images Processing note: No date (2017?) - Name of bird in italics - No neg number but a four digit number (unclear what it is) - 26 prints
Image Box IB-70116/004	"All American Vintage, Book 1," circa 1980s Photographic prints, Printed materials "94 photographs in the book, ALL AMERICAN" "34 Black-and-White prints - 13-14 x 10-11 inches - Mounted on 20x16 inch board" "Signed on mount recto below trimmed print" "No dates in general"
Image Box IB-70116/005	"Early Vintage Still Lifes, Landscapes, Early Vintage Prints," circa 1971 Photographic prints, Printed materials "No Neg number" "16x20 and 11x14 color proofs" "Woodstock 5" ""Just Add Water" 23" "Film Directors, multiple exposures in camera 5" "Red Bear" "Multiple exposures done in camera 12"
Image Box IB-70116/006	"Especially Vivid, Stunning, Color Prints Photographic prints, Printed materials "No negative number"
Image Box IB-70116/007	"Family Named Spot, Vintage Prints," circa 2005 Photographic prints, Printed materials 59 images "A Family Named Spot, Photographs. Preface by Charlie Rose, With a short story "My Heart is a Snake Farm" by Allan Gurganus" "With 77 reproductions in the book" "Fifteys, 2006"
Image Box IB-70116/008	"Includes "MLK Jr., Memphis, and Atlanta," circa 1969 Photographic prints, Printed materials 20 images "20x16 inches"
Image Box IB-70116/010	"Multiples and landscapes, Color Proofs and B&W " Photographic prints, Printed materials 63 images "Daytona Exhibit" 12 Vintage prints" "All are mounted therefore no visible signature, dates or negative #. All are entered as unknown." "Print size is 11 x 14"
Image Box IB-70116/011	"Daytona Exhibit, Box 1," circa 1980s Photographic prints, Printed materials "Mounted size is 16 x 20" "Daytona Exhibit" Processing notes: 13 All are mounted therefore no visible signature, dates or negative #. "All are entered as unknown." "Print size is 11 x 14"
Image Box IB-70116/012	"Daytona Exhibit, Box 2," circa 1980s Photographic prints, Printed materials "Mounted size is 16 x 20"
Image Box IB-70116/013	"Daytona Exhibit Box 3," circa 1980s Photographic prints, Printed materials 21 images Processing note: Items #13.16 - 13.21 are mounted therefore no visible signature, dates or negative #. All are entered as unknown. Print size is 11 x 14. Mounted size is 16 x 20" "Daytona Exhibit 14" "Items that are mounted have no visible signature, dates or negative #." "All are entered as unknown." "Print size is 11 x 14"
Image Box IB-70116/014	"Daytona Exhibit," circa 1980s Photographic prints, Printed materials "Mounted size is 16 x 20"
Image Box IB-70116/015	"Woodstock - Burned", Vintage," circa 1969, 2010 Photographic prints, Printed materials "Archival pigment, Woodstock"
Image Box IB-70116/016	"Woodstock - Burned," circa 1969, 2010 Photographic prints, Printed materials 28 images "Woodstock - "Burned", Vintage" 20 Burned, B & W vintage prints"
Image Box IB-70116/017	"Family Named Spot," circa 2005 Photographic prints, Printed materials 52 images "Studio Portraits, color proofs" 33 Lish in Tub, 1964 (in his home in Mississippi" " Hat Still Life Series, Wilson Studio" " Wall portraits" " Studio portraits"
Image Box IB-70116/018	"Mime Artists,1980s-1990s Photographic prints, Printed materials "Mime Artists" "Landscapes" "28 Appalachia" "Just Add Water"
Image Box IB-70116/019	"Studio Portraits, color proofs," circa 2010s Photographic prints, Printed materials "NC and Southern Road Trips"
Image Box IB-70116/024	"Family Named Spot Vintage Book Prints," circa 2005 Photographic prints, Printed materials 74 images "These are the best in this size"
Image Box IB-70116/025A	"Family Named Spot," circa 2005 Photographic prints, Printed materials 58 images "Vintage Black-and-white Proofs Box 1"
Image Box IB-70116/025B	"Family Named Spot, Vintage B & W Proofs, Box 2," circa 2005 Photographic prints, Printed materials 45 images
Image Box IB-70116/026	"Just Add Water," circa 2007 Photographic prints, Printed materials 105 images
Image Box IB-70116/027	"Eastern NC, Wilson, Appalachia," circa 2006 Photographic prints, Printed materials 18 images "Color Vintage Prints"
Image Box IB-70116/028A	"Just Add Water Complete set," circa 2006 Photographic prints, Printed materials 63 images "Vintage Proofs Box 1"
Image Box IB-70116/028B	"Just Add Water" circa 2006 Photographic prints, Printed materials 60 images "Vintage Proofs Box 2"
Image Box IB-70116/029	"Family Named Spot," circa 2005 Photographic prints, Printed materials 24 images "Vintage Proofs Box 3"
Image Box IB-70116/030	"John Herman House," circa 2006 Photographic prints, Printed materials 15 images "Vintage Proofs"
Image Box IB-70116/031	"John Herrmann House," circa 2006 Photographic prints, Printed materials 17 images "Polariod Proofs"
Image Box IB-70116/032	"John Herrmann House - Just Add Water," circa 2006 Photographic prints, Printed materials 35 images "Vintage Box 3"
Image Box IB-70116/033	"Just Add Water - John Herrmann House," circa 2006 Photographic prints, Printed materials 74 images "Vintage, Box 4"
Image Box IB-70116/034A	"Peter Difalco, Dancer, Sets," circa 2006 Photographic prints, Printed materials 10 images "Vintage"
Image Box IB-70116/034B	"Peter Difalco, Alternate prints," circa 2006 Photographic prints, Printed materials Processing note: New box created by processing archivist.
Image Box IB-70116/035	"Shredded Portraits - Transparencies," circa 2000s Photographic prints, Printed materials
Image Box IB-70116/036	"Shredded Trash," circa 2000s Photographic prints, Printed materials 11 images "Vintage Proofs" "Vintage Red Bear Series - Chrysler Museum Show 35 Vintage color proofs" "Cibachromes" "In acetate"
Image Box IB-70116/037	"Vintage Red Bear Series - Chrysler Museum Show," circa 1992 Photographic prints, Printed materials "Included as a precursor to images"
Image Box IB-70116/038	"Promos etc., Misc. small mailers" Photographic prints, Printed materials
Image Box IB-70116/039	"Slides " Photographic prints, Printed materials
Image Box IB-70116/040	"Promos, Misc. " Photographic prints, Printed materials 10 images "Tearsheets and cover of Newsweek" "Tiny Daytona prints"
Image Box IB-70116/041	"Train Ride Blurred Motion Out of Window " Photographic prints, Printed materials 6 images "All pictures in box are in sleeves"
Image Box IB-70116/042	"Limited Set of Woodstock Prints" circa 1969-2000s Photographic prints, Printed materials 21 images
Image Box IB-70116/043	"Key Pictures, Modern Prints," circa 1990s-2000s Photographic prints, Printed materials 36 images "All in acetate"
Image Box IB-70116/044	"Sixties," circa 1960s Photographic prints, Printed materials 18 images
Image Box IB-70116/045	"Social Protest," circa 1960s-1970s Photographic prints, Printed materials 6 images
Image Box IB-70116/046	"Magazine, Forest, Profile of Body Artist," circa 1960s Photographic prints, Printed materials 82 images "Vintage Cibachromes"
Image Box IB-70116/047	"1970, Magazine work, Celebrities," circa 1970 Photographic prints, Printed materials 42 images "Many duplicates; In acetate"
Image Box IB-70116/048	"Early Book Prints," circa 1960s-1970s Photographic prints, Printed materials 117 images "None of these pictures in books"
Image Box IB-70116/049	"Magazine Work," circa 1960s Photographic prints, Printed materials 56 images
Image Box IB-70116/050	"Vintage Personal Mud Motorcycle Book," circa 1980 "Vintage prints" Processing note: Burk's hobby for many years was riding motorcycles, including enduro competitions for off-road motorcycles. "Dummy book (68 prints in dummy book)"
Image Box IB-70116/051	"Vintage My Dad City Manager of Dunn, NC," circa 1962 Photographic prints, Printed materials "At work and home with family - Done in mid 60's"
Image Box IB-70116/052	"Landscapes Book Vintage," circa 1971 Photographic prints, Printed materials 44 images
Image Box IB-70116/053	"Vintage Hitch Hike," circa 1964 Photographic prints, Printed materials 40 images "Text piece" "Magnum photo library prints" "Vintage prints"
Image Box IB-70116/055	"Still Life," circa 1975 Photographic prints, Printed materials 13 images ">VLY Studio
Image Box IB-70116/057	"Haiti, Liverpool," circa 1961, 1975 Photographic prints, Printed materials 15 images "B & W"
Image Box IB-70116/058	"Bike Week, Daytona," circa 1980s Photographic prints, Printed materials 44 images
Image Box IB-70116/059	"Chrysler Museum, 1992, Film Directors," circa 1992 Photographic prints, Printed materials 15 images "Vintage B & W, Color"
Image Box IB-70116/060	"Chrysler Museum Exhibition, Multiple exposure work," circa 1992 Photographic prints, Printed materials 16 images "Cibachromes, B & W, transparencies, Polaroids"
Image Box IB-70116/061	"Multiple exposure polaroids," circa 1992 Photographic prints, Printed materials 10 images
Image Box IB-70116/062	"Project files Multiple exposure work, Chrysler museum," circa 1992 Photographic prints, Printed materials "Each file has a polaroid on front of folder" "Red Bear belonging to my daughter caitlyn." "Original Multiples, set of 12 locations" "12 consecutive motel rooms." "In Chrysler museum in 1992 mounted all 12 photos"
Image Box IB-70116/063	"Refugees," circa 1979 Photographic prints, Printed materials 48 images "Images in black plastic; Vintage 8x10 Distribution"
Image Box IB-70116/064	"Refugees," circa 1979 Photographic prints, Printed materials 42 images "Vintage 8x10 Distribution"
Image Box IB-70116/065	"Refugees," circa 1979 Photographic prints, Printed materials 43 images "Vintage 8x10 Distribution"
Image Box IB-70116/066	"Cambodia Vintage," circa 1979 Photographic prints, Printed materials 51 images "Vintage"
Image Box IB-70116/067	"Life and magnum 60 and 70," circa 1960s-1970s Photographic prints, Printed materials 68 images "Vintage 8x10 Distribution; Not in Acetate"
Image Box IB-70116/068	"Magazine Work Vintage," circa 1960s-1970s Photographic prints, Printed materials 104 images
Image Box IB-70116/070	"Family Spot, A Family Named Spot, No Dupes," circa 2005 Photographic prints, Printed materials 68 images
Image Box IB-70116/071	"All American Book," circa 1980s Photographic prints, Printed materials 92 images "Many are the reproduction prints, mostly vintage. Missing: "Love Me" 80-1-21, #31 "Muscle Beach" 80-1-119, #128A"
Image Box IB-70116/072	"Woodstock B& W portfolio," circa 1969, 2005 Photographic prints, Printed materials 20 images "Selection of vintage color slides - dupes and originals - Distribution flyer prepared by A+C Anthology Agency in NYC"
Image Box IB-70116/073	"Vintage landscapes," circa 1960s-2010s Photographic prints, Printed materials 96 images
Image Box IB-70116/074	"Family Named Spot 30 Vintage," circa 2005 Photographic prints, Printed materials 31 images
Image Box IB-70116/075	"BW, Landscape, Vollis Simpson Hands and Chair" Photographic prints, Printed materials 15 images "Photos grouped in folders - "Vollis Simpson hands and chair 3 Wilson Studio 2010" "Mime Artists 3 Wilson Studio 2005, 11, 12" "Landscapes 9"
Image Box IB-70116/080	"Slide Presentation " Photographic prints, Printed materials
Image Box IB-70116/081	"Slide Presentation " Photographic prints, Printed materials Magazine tearsheets" "Contains Life Magazine MLK cover
Image Box IB-70116/082	"Vintage Magnum Portfolio," circa 1967-1983 Photographic prints, Printed materials "All images are in clear plastic sleeves in 3 ring binder" "Magazine tearsheets" "Contains Life Magazine "Spring in NC" story"
Image Box IB-70116/083	"Vintage Magnum Portfolio," circa 1967-1983 Photographic prints, Printed materials "All images are in clear plastic sleeves in 3 ring binder" "Magazine tearsheets"
Image Box IB-70116/084	Untitled Photographic prints, Printed materials "All images are in clear plastic sleeves in 3 ring binder"
Image Box IB-70116/085 A-D	"Vintage Laminated Life Magazine tearsheets," circa 1962-1968 Photographic prints, Printed materials "Set of 4 binders containing laminated tear sheets from Life Magazine" "I (Burk) only saved these tear sheets in the early years with Life, then stopped doing this."
Image Box IB-70116/086	"All American Landscapes," circa 1980s Photographic prints, Printed materials 28 images
Image Box IB-70116/087	"Vintage BW prints returned from exhibition in Wales" Photographic prints, Printed materials 30 images
Image Box IB-70116/088	"Prints from traveling exhibition " Photographic prints, Printed materials 27 images "with work from 70's and 80's - shown in museum in Whales"" ""Vintage Black-and-White prints" "Cambodia Refugee Project 40" "This was a traveling exhibition put together by Olympus which toured around Europe"
Image Box IB-70116/089	"Vintage Black-and-White prints, Cambodia Refugee Project," circa 1979 Photographic prints, Printed materials 40 images "A similar exhibition was at the International Center of Photography in NYC"
Image Box IB-70116/092	"Vintage distribution prints," circa 1960s Photographic prints, Printed materials 192 images "Prints from 60's, 70's and 80's" "Prints returned from Magnum" "Hillelson and picture group agencies."
Image Box IB-70116/093	"Vintage distribution prints," circa 1960s Photographic prints, Printed materials "Prints from 60's, 70's and 80's"
Image Box IB-70116/094	"Vintage Distribution Prints, South, Returned from Magnum Picture Group, Hillelson, Woodfin Camp Agency Archive " Photographic prints, Printed materials 137 images
Image Box IB-70116/095	"Vollis Simpson Color Prints" Photographic prints, Printed materials 17 images
Image Box IB-70116/096	"Editorial Box" Photographic prints, Printed materials
Image Box IB-70116/097	"Editorial box" Photographic prints, Printed materials
Image Box IB-70116/098	"National Geographic Magazine" Photographic prints, Printed materials
Image Box IB-70116/099	"Plastic box files labeled Box #4 " Photographic prints, Printed materials
Image Box IB-70116/100	"Contemporary Color (1)" Photographic prints, Printed materials 52 images Processing note: Prints #100 - #103 are what Burk refers to as "digital prints."
Image Box IB-70116/101	"Contemporary Color (2)" Photographic prints, Printed materials 53 images
Image Box IB-70116/102	"Woodstock B&W " Photographic prints, Printed materials 18 images
Image Box IB-70116/103	"Martin Luther King" Photographic prints, Printed materials 20 images
Image Box IB-70116/104	"Best of the Best (1)" Photographic prints, Printed materials 55 images
Image Box IB-70116/105	"Best of the Best (2)" Photographic prints, Printed materials 48 images
Image Box IB-70116/106	"Best of the Best (3)" Photographic prints, Printed materials 54 images
Image Box IB-70116/107	"Best of the Best (4)" Photographic prints, Printed materials 52 images

Expand/collapse Subseries 1.2. Projects and Jobs, circa 1960s-2010s

Approximately 4000 images.

A "contact sheet" is a piece of photographic paper onto which several or all of the negatives on a roll of film have been printed as thumbnail images.

Titles in quotation marks were transcribed from original captions or notes found with materials.

The negative number(s) used to make the photographic prints appear on the verso of many of the prints and the film used to make them can be found with corresponding numbering in subseries 1.4. Most of the images are captioned.

Materials created by Uzzle while working with Time-Life Magazine (circa 1960s-1970s), consists of a curated selection of his work form this time. The more complete collection of his work from this period of his career can be found in Burk Uzzle Photojournalism Collection, Library of Congress.

Due to Burk Uzzle's contract work covering war zones and scenes of unrest, there are graphic images in this subseries that may depict war-zones, injuries, recovery progress, and nudity.

Image Box IB-70116/108	Log Book (Black), circa 1960s-1970s Printed materials Logs provide details including subjects, locations, and dates for selected jobs photographed by Uzzle.
Image Box IB-70116/109	Log Books 1-7 , circa 1960s-1970s Printed materials Logs provide details including subjects, locations, and dates for selected jobs photographed by Uzzle.
Image Box IB-70116/110	"Uzzle 61-64: Story and Event Selects (Proof)," circa 1961-9164 Photographic prints
Image Box IB-70116/111	"Uzzle 65-68: Story and Event Selects (Proof)," circa 1965-1968 Photographic prints
Image Box IB-70116/112	"Uzzle 69-74: Story and Event Selects(Proof)," circa 1969-1974 Photographic prints
Image Box IB-70116/113	"Selects Book 1 (Proofs)," circa Photographic prints and proof sheets
Image Box IB-70116/114	"Selects Book 2 (Proofs)," circa Photographic prints and proof sheets
Image Box IB-70116/115	"Selects Book 3 (Proofs)," circa Photographic prints and proof sheets
Image Box IB-70116/116	"Selects Book 4: Master Book (Proofs)," circa Photographic prints and proof sheets
Image Box IB-70116/117	"Selects Book 5 (Proofs)," circa 1960s-1970s Photographic prints
Image Box IB-70116/118	"Selects Book 6 (Proofs)," circa 1960s-1970s Photographic prints
Image Box IB-70116/119	"Selects Book 7 (Proofs)," circa 1960s-1970s Photographic prints
Image Box IB-70116/120	"Selects Book 8 (Proofs)," circa 1960s-1970s Photographic prints
Image Box IB-70116/121	"Selects Book 9 (Proofs)," circa 1960s-1970s Photographic prints
Image Box IB-70116/122	"Master Book Contacts 1, circa 1960s-1970s Photographic print
Image Box IB-70116/123	"Master Book Contacts 2, circa Photographic prints
Image Box IB-70116/124	"Compiled Key Selects: Master Book Contacts: All American Period, circa 1980s Photographic prints and proof sheets
Image Box IB-70116/125	"Landscape Book, circa 2006 Photographic prints; Publications
Image Box IB-70116/126	"Woodstock / MLK: Contacts," circa 1968 Photographic prints
Image Box IB-70116/127	"Book 1: Dupes of key(?) Pictures," circa 1960s-2010s Color 35mm slides
Image Box IB-70116/128	"Book 2: Dupes of key(?) Pictures, circa 1960s-2010s Color 35mm slides
Image Box IB-70116/129	"Book 3: Dupes of key(?) Pictures," circa 1960s-2010s Color 35mm slides
Image Box IB-70116/130	"Book 4: Dupes of key(?) Pictures," circa 1960s-2010s Color 35mm slides
Image Box IB-70116/131	"Annual Report Pictures (Blue Binder) , circa Color 35mm slides
Image Box IB-70116/132	"Associated Color 1980s," circa 1980s Color 35mm slides
Image Box IB-70116/133	"John Herrmann House," circa 2006 Photographic film
Image Box IB-70116/134	"Just Add Water Selects," circa Photographic film
Image Box IB-70116/135	"Just Add Water Alternates (1)," circa Photographic film
Image Box IB-70116/136	"Just Add Water Alternates (2)," circa Photographic film
Image Box IB-70116/137	"Vollis Simpson (Selects)," circa 2000s Photographic film
Image Box IB-70116/138	"Vollis Simpson (1)," circa 2000s Photographic film
Image Box IB-70116/139	"Vollis Simpson (2)," circa 2000s Photographic film
Image Box IB-70116/140	"Burk Uzzle Appalachia (Best)," circa 2006 Photographic film
Image Box IB-70116/141	"Burk Uzzle Appalachia (Alternates) (1)," circa 2006 Photographic film
Image Box IB-70116/142	"Burk Uzzle Appalachia (Alternates) (2)," circa 2006 Photographic film
Image Box IB-70116/143	"Studio Best," circa 2006-2010s Photographic film
Image Box IB-70116/144	"Studio Alternates Mime Artists," circa 2006 Photographic film
Image Box IB-70116/145	"Studio Alternates Color Transparencies," circa 2006 Photographic film
Image Box IB-70116/146	"Car Nudes, Multiple Exposures," circa 1990s Photographic film
Image Box IB-70116/147	"Burk Uzzle New Work, Wilson," circa 2006-2010s Photographic film
Image Box IB-70116/148	"Zoid Color Burned," circa 2010 Photographic film
Image Box IB-70116/149	"Burned Alternates (1)," circa 2010 Photographic film
Image Box IB-70116/150	"Burned Alternates (2)," circa 2010 Photographic film
Image Box IB-70116/151	"Pink in Florida: Wonderful Set!! To Be Scanned and Printed," circa 1980s-1990s Photographic film

Expand/collapse Subseries 1.3. Contact Sheets (Chronological), circa 1960s-2010s

Approximately 5000 images.

A "contact sheet" is a piece of photographic paper onto which several or all of the negatives on a roll of film have been printed as thumbnail images.

Titles in quotation marks were transcribed from original captions or notes found with materials. The negative number(s) used to make the photographic prints appear on the verso of many of the prints and the film used to make them can be found with corresponding numbering in subseries 1.4. Most of the images are captioned and the subseries follows a chronological order.

Processing note: Materials removed from original binders by processing archivist.

Image Box IB-70116/152	Contact sheets: "82-1" (1: 1-70)," circa 1982 Photographic prints (Contact sheets)
Image Box IB-70116/153	Contact sheets: "82-1" (2: 71-141)," circa 1982 Photographic prints (Contact sheets)
Image Box IB-70116/154	Contact sheets: "82-1" (3: 142-225)," circa 1982 Photographic prints (Contact sheets)
Image Box IB-70116/155	Contact sheets: "82-2/83-2" (83-2-1 to 83-3-4)," circa 1982-1983 Photographic prints (Contact sheets) Only has "83-2-1 to 83-3-4"
Image Box IB-70116/156	Contact sheets: "83-1 #1" (83-1-1 to 83-1-86)," circa 1983 Photographic prints (Contact sheets)
Image Box IB-70116/157	Contact sheets: "83-1 #2" (82-2-1 to 83-2-7) 1982-1983 Photographic prints (Contact sheets)
Image Box IB-70116/158	Contact sheets: "84-1 #1" (84-1-1 to 84-1-68)," circa 1984 Photographic prints (Contact sheets)
Image Box IB-70116/159	Contact sheets: "84-1 #2," circa 1983 Photographic prints (Contact sheets) Processing note: Appears to be 83-1-87 to 83-1-158.
Image Box IB-70116/160	Contact sheets: "85-1 #1" (85-1-1 to 85-1-72) 1985 Photographic prints (Contact sheets)
Image Box IB-70116/161	Contact sheets: "85-1 #2,"circa 1984 Photographic prints (Contact sheets) Processing note: Appears to be: 84-1-70 to 84-1-116)
Image Box IB-70116/162	Contact sheets: "85-2 / 86-1-13," circa 1985 Photographic prints (Contact sheets) Processing note: Appears to be: 85-1-73 to 85-1-149.
Image Box IB-70116/163	Contact sheets: "86-1," circa 1986 Photographic prints (Contact sheets)
Image Box IB-70116/164	Contact sheets: "87-1 / 87-5," circa 1987 Photographic prints (Contact sheets)
Image Box IB-70116/165	Contact sheets: "88-1 / 89-9," circa 1988-1989 Photographic prints (Contact sheets)
Image Box IB-70116/166	Contact sheets: "89/1 - 90/11," circa 1989-1990 Photographic prints (Contact sheets)
Image Box IB-70116/167	Contact sheets: "91/1 - 92/6," circa 1991-1992 Photographic prints (Contact sheets)
Image Box IB-70116/168	Contact sheets: "94/1-9," circa 1994 Photographic prints (Contact sheets)
Image Box IB-70116/169	Contact sheets: "94/10-17," circa 1994 Photographic prints (Contact sheets)
Image Box IB-70116/170	Contact sheets: "95/1-3," circa 1995 Photographic prints (Contact sheets)
Image Box IB-70116/171	Contact sheets: "95/4-10," circa 1995 Photographic prints (Contact sheets)
Image Box IB-70116/172	Contact sheets: "95/12-," circa 1995 Photographic prints (Contact sheets)
Image Box IB-70116/173	Contact sheets: "96/1," circa 1996 Photographic prints (Contact sheets)
Image Box IB-70116/174	Contact sheets: "96-5," circa 1996 Photographic prints (Contact sheets)
Image Box IB-70116/175	Contact sheets: "96-6," circa 1996 Photographic prints (Contact sheets)
Image Box IB-70116/176	Contact sheets: "96/7-," circa 1996 Photographic prints (Contact sheets)
Image Box IB-70116/177	Contact sheets: "97/1-84," circa 1997 Photographic prints (Contact sheets)
Image Box IB-70116/178	Contact sheets: "97/1-," circa 1997 Photographic prints (Contact sheets)
Image Box IB-70116/179	Contact sheets: "97/1, 147," circa 1997 Photographic prints (Contact sheets)
Image Box IB-70116/180	Contact sheets: "97/2," circa 1997 Photographic prints (Contact sheets)
Image Box IB-70116/181	Contact sheets: "98/1-97," circa 1998 Photographic prints (Contact sheets)
Image Box IB-70116/182	Contact sheets: "98/1," circa 1998 Photographic prints (Contact sheets)
Image Box IB-70116/183	Contact sheets: "98/2," circa 1998 Photographic prints (Contact sheets)
Image Box IB-70116/184	Contact sheets: "99-1," circa 1999 Photographic prints (Contact sheets)
Image Box IB-70116/185	Contact sheets: "99-2," circa 1999 Photographic prints (Contact sheets)
Image Box IB-70116/186	Contact sheets: "00-1," circa 2000 Photographic prints (Contact sheets)
Image Box IB-70116/187	Contact sheets: "00-2," circa 2000 Photographic prints (Contact sheets)
Image Box IB-70116/188	Contact sheets: "01/1," circa 2001 Photographic prints (Contact sheets)
Image Box IB-70116/189	Contact sheets: "01/2," circa 2001 Photographic prints (Contact sheets)
Image Box IB-70116/190	Contact Sheets: 02-1," circa 2002 Photographic prints (Contact sheets)
Image Box IB-70116/191	Contact sheets: "02-2," circa 2002 Photographic prints (Contact sheets)
Image Box IB-70116/192	Contact sheets: "03-1," circa 2003 Photographic prints (Contact sheets)
Image Box IB-70116/193	Contact sheets: "03-2," circa 2003 Photographic prints (Contact sheets)
Image Box IB-70116/194	Contact sheets: "04-1," circa 2004 Photographic prints (Contact sheets)
Image Box IB-70116/195	Contact sheets: "04-2," circa 2004 Photographic prints (Contact sheets)
Image Box IB-70116/196	Contact sheets: "05-1," circa 2005 Photographic prints (Contact sheets)
Image Box IB-70116/197	Contact sheets: "05-2 (1)," circa 2005 Photographic prints (Contact sheets)
Image Box IB-70116/198	Contact sheets: "05-2 (2)," circa 2005 Photographic prints (Contact sheets)
Image Box IB-70116/199	Contact sheets: "06-1," circa 2006 Photographic prints (Contact sheets)
Image Box IB-70116/200	Contact sheets: "07-1," circa 2007 Photographic prints (Contact sheets)
Image Box IB-70116/201	Contact sheets: "08-1 / 09-01," circa 2008 Photographic prints (Contact sheets)
Image Box IB-70116/202	Contact sheets: "9-01\2," circa 2009 Photographic prints (Contact sheets)
Image Box IB-70116/203	Contact sheets: "10-1," circa 2010 Photographic prints (Contact sheets)
Image Box IB-70116/204	Contact sheets: "11-1," circa 2011 Photographic prints (Contact sheets)
Image Box IB-70116/205	"Studio Contacts: 2013 180," circa 2013 Photographic prints (Contact sheets)
Image Box IB-70116/206	"Contacts: 13-1," circa 2013 Photographic prints (Contact sheets)
Image Box IB-70116/207	"Contacts: 1 to 75 (2011?)," circa 2011 Photographic prints (Contact sheets)
Image Box IB-70116/208	"Contacts: 85 to 121 (2011?)," circa 2011 Photographic prints (Contact sheets)
Image Box IB-70116/209	"Contacts: 122 to 179 (2011?)," circa 2011 Photographic prints (Contact sheets)

Expand/collapse Subseries 1.4. Negatives, circa 1950s-2010s

Approximately 76000 images.

A majority of the materials in this subseries have contact sheets in subseries 1.3. Materials created by Uzzle while working with Time-Life Magazine (circa 1960s-1970s), consists of a curated selection of his work form this time. The more complete collection of his work from this period of his career can be found in Burk Uzzle Photojournalism Collection, Library of Congress.

Due to Burk Uzzle's contract work covering war zones and scenes of unrest, there are graphic images in this subseries that may depict war-zones, injuries, recovery progress, and nudity.

Image Box IB-70116/210	"Uzzle 61/1-64/6: Story and Event Selects (Negatives)," circa 1961-1964 Photographic film Negatives for IB-70116/110-112.
Image Box IB-70116/211	"Uzzle 64/7-68/26: Story and Event Selects (Negatives)," circa 1964-1968 Photographic film Negatives for IB-70116/110-112.
Image Box IB-70116/212	"Uzzle 69/13-82: Story and Event Selects (Negatives)," circa 1968-1969 Photographic film Negatives for IB-70116/110-112.
Image Box IB-70116/213	"Selects Book 4: Master Book (Negs)," 1970s-1980s Photographic film Negatives for 116IB-70116/116.
Image Box IB-70116/214	"Selects Book 5: Negatives," circa 1995-1996 Photographic film Negatives for 117.
Image Box IB-70116/215	"Selects Book 6: Negatives," circa 1970s-1990s Photographic film Negatives for 118.
Image Box IB-70116/216	"Selects Book 7: Negatives," circa 2001-2003 Photographic film Negatives for 119.
Image Box IB-70116/217	"Selects Book 8: Negatives," circa 2001-2003 Photographic film Negatives for 120.
Image Box IB-70116/218	"Selects Book 9: Negatives," circa 200s-2010s Photographic film Negatives for 121.
Image Box IB-70116/219	"Complete set of copy negatives: All American Book," circa 1980s Photographic film Negatives for 124.
Image Box IB-70116/220	"Landscape Book: Negatives " Photographic film Negatives for 125.
Image Box IB-70116/221	"Landscape Book: Negatives " Photographic film Negatives for 125. Processing note: Materials formerly "White Fed Ex Box W/Sticky," rehoused by processors.
Image Box IB-70116/222	"Woodstock / MLK: Negatives " Photographic film Negatives for 126.
Image Box IB-70116/223	"Judy Best Wedding / 1958 Country Store / 1958 Graduation Party," circa 1958-1959 Photographic film Processing note: Oldest negatives in collection. No contact sheets.
Image Box IB-70116/224	"Uzzle Family: Best Family," circa 1958-1959 Photographic film Processing note: Oldest negatives in collection. No contact sheets.
Image Box IB-70116/225	"Negatives: 82-1: 1-106," circa 1982 Photographic film Has contact sheet in subseries 1.4.
Image Box IB-70116/226	"Negatives: 82-1 (2): 107-225," circa 1982 Photographic film Has contact sheet in subseries 1.4.
Image Box IB-70116/227	"Negatives: 83-1: 1-153," circa 1983 Photographic film Has contact sheet in subseries 1.4.
Image Box IB-70116/228	"Negatives: 83-2: 86-13," circa 1983, 1986 Photographic film Has contact sheet in subseries 1.4.
Image Box IB-70116/229	"Negatives: 83/1: 87-156," circa 1983, 1987 Photographic film Has contact sheet in subseries 1.4.
Image Box IB-70116/230	"Negatives: 84/1: 1- BLUE (1)," circa 1984 Photographic film Has contact sheet in subseries 1.4.
Image Box IB-70116/231	"Negatives: 84/1: 1- BLUE (2)," circa 1984 Photographic film Has contact sheet in subseries 1.4.
Image Box IB-70116/232	"Negatives: 85-1: 1-149 ," circa 1985 Photographic film Has contact sheet in subseries 1.4.
Image Box IB-70116/233	"86-1 Day in the Life of America," circa 1986 Photographic film Negatives and Contact Sheets
Image Box IB-70116/234	"Negatives: 87-1: 87-2," circa 1987 Photographic film Has contact sheet in subseries 1.4.
Image Box IB-70116/235	"Negatives: 87-1: 87-2 (?) BLUE," circa 1987 Photographic film Has contact sheet in subseries 1.4.
Image Box IB-70116/236	"86/1," circa 1986 Photographic film Has contact sheet in subseries 1.4.
Image Box IB-70116/237	"89/1 -- 90/1," circa 1989-1990 Photographic film Has contact sheet in subseries 1.4.
Image Box IB-70116/238	"Negatives: 91/1 - 92/6," circa 1991-1992 Photographic film Has contact sheet in subseries 1.4.
Image Box IB-70116/239	"Negatives: 94/1-9," circa 1994 Photographic film Has contact sheet in subseries 1.4.
Image Box IB-70116/240	"Negatives: 94/10-17," circa 1994 Photographic film Has contact sheet in subseries 1.4.
Image Box IB-70116/241	"Negatives: 95/1-3," circa 1995 Photographic film Has contact sheet in subseries 1.4.
Image Box IB-70116/242	"Negatives: 95/4-10," circa 1995 Photographic film Has contact sheet in subseries 1.4.
Image Box IB-70116/243	"Negatives: 95/12-," circa 1995 Photographic film Has contact sheet in subseries 1.4.
Image Box IB-70116/244	"Negatives: 96 -6," circa 1996 Photographic film Has contact sheet in subseries 1.4.
Image Box IB-70116/245	"Negatives: 96/7-," circa 1996 Photographic film Has contact sheet in subseries 1.4.
Image Box IB-70116/246	"Negatives: 96/1," circa 1996 Photographic film Has contact sheet in subseries 1.4.
Image Box IB-70116/247	"Negatives: 97/1-84," circa 1997 Photographic film Has contact sheet in subseries 1.4.
Image Box IB-70116/248	"Negatives: 97/1, 85-146," circa 1997 Photographic film Has contact sheet in subseries 1.4.
Image Box IB-70116/249	"Negatives(?): 8-9-10/8-9-12," circa 1997 Photographic film
Image Box IB-70116/250	"Negatives: 97/1, 147," circa 1997 Photographic film Has contact sheet in subseries 1.4.
Image Box IB-70116/251	"Negatives: 97/2," circa 1997 Photographic film Has contact sheet in subseries 1.4.
Image Box IB-70116/252	"Negatives: 98/1-97," circa 1998 Photographic film Has contact sheet in subseries 1.4.
Image Box IB-70116/253	"Negatives: 98/1," circa 1998 Photographic film Has contact sheet in subseries 1.4.
Image Box IB-70116/254	"Negatives: 98/2," circa 1998 Photographic film Has contact sheet in subseries 1.4.
Image Box IB-70116/255	"Negatives: 99-1," circa 1999 Photographic film Has contact sheet in subseries 1.4.
Image Box IB-70116/256	"Negatives: 99-2," circa 1999 Photographic film Has contact sheet in subseries 1.4.
Image Box IB-70116/257	"Negatives: 00-1," circa 2000 Photographic film Has contact sheet in subseries 1.4.
Image Box IB-70116/258	"Negatives: 00-2," circa 2000 Photographic film
Image Box IB-70116/259	"Negatives: 00-8," circa 2000 Photographic film
Image Box IB-70116/260	"Negatives: 01/1," circa 2001 Photographic film Has contact sheet in subseries 1.4.
Image Box IB-70116/261	"Negatives: 01/2," circa 2001 Photographic film Has contact sheet in subseries 1.4.
Image Box IB-70116/262	"Negatives: 01-7," circa 2001 Photographic film Has contact sheet in subseries 1.4.
Image Box IB-70116/263	"Negatives: 02-1," circa 2002 Photographic film Has contact sheet in subseries 1.4.
Image Box IB-70116/264	"Negatives: 02-2," circa 2002 Photographic film Has contact sheet in subseries 1.4.
Image Box IB-70116/265	"Negatives: 03-1," circa 2003 Photographic film Has contact sheet in subseries 1.4.
Image Box IB-70116/266	"Negatives: 03-2," circa 2003 Photographic film Has contact sheet in subseries 1.4.
Image Box IB-70116/267	"Negatives: 04-1," circa 2004 Photographic film Has contact sheet in subseries 1.4.
Image Box IB-70116/268	"Negatives: 04-2," circa 2004 Photographic film Has contact sheet in subseries 1.4.
Image Box IB-70116/269	"Negatives: 05-1," circa 2005 Photographic film Has contact sheet in subseries 1.4.
Image Box IB-70116/270	"Negatives: 05-2 (1)," circa 2005 Photographic film Has contact sheet in subseries 1.4.
Image Box IB-70116/271	"Negatives: 05-2 (2)," circa 2005 Photographic film Has contact sheet in subseries 1.4.
Image Box IB-70116/272	"Negatives: 06-1," circa 2006 Photographic film Has contact sheet in subseries 1.4.
Image Box IB-70116/273	"Negatives: 07-1," circa 2007 Photographic film Has contact sheet in subseries 1.4.
Image Box IB-70116/274	"Negatives: Color 2007: NW Landscapes / Shredded Trash," circa 2007 Photographic film Has contact sheet in subseries 1.4.
Image Box IB-70116/275	"Negatives: 08-1 / 09-1," circa 2008 Photographic film Has contact sheet in subseries 1.4.
Image Box IB-70116/276	"Negatives: 09-1 / 09-2," circa 2009 Photographic film
Image Box IB-70116/277	"Negatives: Color 2009: Landscapes Sill Lifes Studio," circa 2009 Photographic film Has contact sheet in subseries 1.4.
Image Box IB-70116/278	"Negatives: 09 Color," circa 2009 Photographic film
Image Box IB-70116/279	"Negatives 10-1," circa 2010 Photographic film
Image Box IB-70116/280	"Negatives 11-1," circa 2011 Photographic film
Image Box IB-70116/281	"Studio Negs 2013 180," circa 2013 Photographic film
Image Box IB-70116/282	"Negs 13:1," circa 2013 Photographic film
Image Box IB-70116/283	"Studio Alternates 2013," circa 2013 Photographic film
Image Box IB-70116/284	"Studio Negs 2 to 75 (2011?)," circa 2011-2013 Photographic film
Image Box IB-70116/285	"Studio Negs S 11 76 to 121 (2011?)," circa 2011-2013 Photographic film
Image Box IB-70116/286	"Studio Negs 122 to 170 (2011?)," circa 2011-2013 Photographic film
Image Box IB-70116/287	"Best Color Very Important Box!!," circa 1960s-2010s Photographic film

Expand/collapse Series 2. Files, Publications, and Tearsheets, circa 1960s-2010s.

Approximately 5000 items.

Arrangement: Original order.

Files and materials maintained by Uzzle throughout his career related to jobs and projects associated with his work.

Titles in quotation marks were transcribed from original captions or notes found with materials.

Expand/collapse Subseries 2.1. File Cabinet Files, circa 1960s-2010s

Materials from file cabinets in Uzzle's studio in Wilson, NC. A majority of the folders are labeled and contain printed materials related to projects and other work done by Uzzle.

Image Box IB-70116/288	Project files: Drawer 1: Box 1 Photographic materials, Printed materials
Image Box IB-70116/289	Project files, Drawer 1: Box 2 Photographic materials, Printed materials
Image Box IB-70116/290	Project files, Drawer 2: Box 1 Photographic materials, Printed materials
Image Box IB-70116/291	Project files, Drawer 2: Box 2 / Project files drawer 3: Box 1 Photographic materials, Printed materials
Image Box IB-70116/292	Project files, Drawer 3: Box 2 Photographic materials, Printed materials
Image Box IB-70116/293	Project files, Drawer 3: Box 3 / Drawer 4 Box 1 Photographic materials, Printed materials
Image Box IB-70116/294	Project files, Drawer 4: Box 2 Photographic materials, Printed materials
Image Box IB-70116/295	Project files: Loose materials (1) Photographic materials, Printed materials
Image Box IB-70116/296	Project files: Loose materials (2) Photographic materials, Printed materials

Expand/collapse Subseries 2.2. Publications and Tearsheets, circa 1960s-2010s

Self-curated collection of publications and other printed materials containing works by Uzzle.

Image Box IB-70116/297	Corporate publications: A-E Photographic materials, Printed materials
Image Box IB-70116/298	Corporate publications: F-K Photographic materials, Printed materials
Image Box IB-70116/299	Corporate publications: L-W Photographic materials, Printed materials
Image Box IB-70116/300	Corporate publications: MCN Annual Reports Photographic materials, Printed materials
Image Box IB-70116/301	Corporate publications: Smithfield Foods Photographic materials, Printed materials

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Collection Number: 70116 Collection Title: Burk Uzzle Photograph Collection, 1930s-2010s