Collection: Spencer Grant Photographs

Scope and Contents

This collection consists of negatives, digital scans and contact sheets for photographs of Tufts University and its students and faculty taken by freelance photographer Spencer Grant.

Dates

1970 -- 1979

Creator

Grant, Spencer

Language of Materials

English

Access

This collection is open for research.

Conditions Governing Use

Some material in this collection may be protected by copyright and other rights. Please see “Reproductions and Use” on the Digital Collections and Archives website for more information about reproductions and permission to publish. No documentation is available regarding the intellectual property rights in this collection.

Arrangement

This collection is organized into one series.

Related Materials

Spencer Grant Collection. Boston Public Library Flickr page. http://www.flickr.com/photos/boston_public_library/collections/72157627977305452/. Accessed May 15, 2012.

Extent

.25 Linear Feet (1 box)

135 Digital Object(s)

Additional Description

Biographical / Historical

Born in Brooklyn, New York, Spencer Grant graduated in journalism from Boston University in 1966. He worked as Air Force photographer in Nebraska and then as Associated Press photographer in New York. After moving back to Boston in 1969 Spencer worked as freelance photographer for various magazines and services among them United Press International, The Boston Globe, Time magazine, of the Boston magazine. He also did a number of also commercial shoots.

Spencer became Stock Boston photo agency’s first photographer in 1971. By the end of the 1970s he worked as a full time stock photographer and, in the late 1970s, he became a stock photographer full-time.