Reginald Gammon papers, 1927-2007, bulk 1960-2005

Biographical material includes Gammon's academic records and diplomas, various certificates, military records, an address book, and information about his memorial service. There is also a folder on The Spiral Group that contains an exhibition catalog, photographs, and writings. There are video interviews, a conversation video, and two TV advertisements, all digital; one analog and one digital audio interview.

This series is arranged chronologically with the exception of interviews, which are grouped together.

The bulk of this series was digitized, except for blank pages and duplicates.

Correspondence is with artists, museums, galleries, arts organizations, students, and family. Correspondents include Benny Andrews, Romare Bearden, Vivian Browne, Thomas Frey, Joseph Greenberg, Patrick King, Hughie Lee-Smith, Harvey Overton, Jonathan Wynberg, Harwood Arts Center, Howard University, LewAllen Gallery, Midtown Galleries, New Mexico African American Artists Guild, the Smithsonian Institution Anacostia Museum and several additional African American arts organizations, and many more. Topics range from personal daily life to lectures requests to exhibition solicitations. Of particular note is correspondence concerning Ida Y Vuelta, Gammon's only international exhibition in Rodez, France.

This series is arranged alphabetically by correspondent.

The bulk of this series was digitized. Materials not digitized include duplicates, blank pages, and the backs of clippings. In some cases, exhibition catalogs and other publications have had their covers, title pages, and relevant pages digitized.

This series includes a student essay written by Reginald Gammon when he was a student at the Pennsylvania Museum of Fine Arts, miscellaneous notes, grant applications, and notebooks containing daily entries and drafts of letters. While the majority of the material is written by Gammon, there is one folder of material that contains the first draft of a research proposal on "The Tattoo as Non-verbal Communication" that was jointly written by Gammon and Lawrence Tyler along with another essay by Tyler.

Additional writings by Gammon in the form of lecture notes and a sound recording of a lecture are found in Series 4, Teaching Files.

This series is arranged chronologically.

The bulk of this series has been digitized with the exception of blank pages of notebooks.

Scattered teaching files consist primarily of material related to Reginald Gammon's tenure at Western Michigan University and include teaching certifications, lecture notes, 1 sound recording of a lecture, student recommendations, grade books, activity reports regarding teaching appointments and applications for sabbaticals, and an award certificate conferring the status of Professor Emeritus upon Gammon.

This series is arranged chronologically.

The bulk of the series has been digitized, except for duplicates and blank pages of notebooks.

Printed material consists of exhibition catalogs and announcements, newspaper and magazine clippings, newsletters, periodicals, posters, and source material on jazz. There are many catalogs from exhibitions of African American artists and a catalog Ida Y Vuelta which documents Gammon's 1998 exhibition in Rodez, France.

Materials in this series are grouped together by document type and the groupings are arranged alphabetically.

The bulk of this series has been digitized, except for any duplicates. Exhibition catalogs and other publications have had their covers, title pages, and relevant pages digitized.

Photographic materials include photographs, slides, digital photographs, negatives, and contact sheets. There are portrait photographs of Gammon and of Gammon in school, in the Navy, in various studios, and with family and friends. There are some photographs of his artwork and assorted events.

Photographs of Reginald Gammon are at the beginning of the series. The rest of the photographs are sorted loosely by subject, such as photographs of family, friends, studios, artwork, and so forth. Whenever possible the photographs are arranged chronologically within each grouping and folder, though there are many undated photographs throughout the series.

The bulk of this series has been digitized except for duplicates and blank versos of photographs.

Artwork consists of sketches in several medium, preliminary collage pieces, storyboards and print mockups for book and advertising illustrations.

The materials in this series are arranged alphabetically by type of artwork.

This series has been digitized in its entirety.