Roy Alson papers

This collection contains black-and-white negatives, color slides, and photographic prints, taken and collected by Roy Alson, as well as a few photographs by other photographers, and some printed materials. Alson, who graduated from the University of Virginia's College of Arts and Sciences in 1974, the same year as the first cohort of women to be admitted to the University, was a photographer for The Cavalier Daily and a photo editor for Corks and Curls.

The photographs, slides, and negatives document student life at the University of Virginia from 1970-1974 when the first cohorts of women attended UVA. The prints include photographs of UVA basketball, football, and lacrosse sporting events, photos of school social events (such as UVA Happy Day in 1971), school theater productions, music concerts, close-up portraits of students, photos of UVA buildings, and several contact sheets of photograph negatives. Most negatives and some photographs have notations of the event or person depicted.

The printed materials include a first year directory for the class of 1974, copies of the 1974 UVA graduation exercises, an interfraternity council booklet (1973), event programs for the 1973, 1974, and 1975 Restoration Balls, a copy of the 1975 Founders Day Exercises, a 1976 Cavalier daily special issue on the Rotunda, and a 1972 April Fool's Day edition of Cavalier Daily.