Should have saved this for Friday, but it is a topic worthy of being laid bare, so to speak. So I'm going through this collection of slides from the 1970s, all of these outdoorsy shots where the folks are hiking in southern Utah, and there are quite a few shots of them au naturel; the guy playing a violin on some sandstone slope, wearing nothing but a look of concentration; a woman swimming in a plunge pool, or laying out on a sandstone bench, not even wearing that. I know the guy is long dead, which is why we got his photos; but I don't know about the woman. We've run across naked folks before--the snowboarders are notorious for this--but it made me wonder, in these post-wardrobe-malfunction days, how does this impact archives? Should I put a note on the folder and in the finding aid, saying "nudity," or would that bring only the prurient? Then again, aren't the prurient our patrons too? Thoughts? Roy Webb, C.A. Multimedia Archivist Special Collections J. Willard Marriott Library 295 South 1500 East University of Utah Salt Lake City, Utah 84112 office: (801) 585-3073 FAX: (801) 585-3976 [log in to unmask] http://www.lib.utah.edu/spc/photo A posting from the Archives & Archivists LISTSERV List sponsored by the Society of American Archivists, www.archivists.org. For the terms of participation, please refer to http://www.archivists.org/listservs/arch_listserv_terms.asp. To subscribe or unsubscribe, send e-mail to [log in to unmask] In body of message: SUB ARCHIVES firstname lastname *or*: UNSUB ARCHIVES To post a message, send e-mail to [log in to unmask] Or to do *anything* (and enjoy doing it!), use the web interface at http://listserv.muohio.edu/archives/archives.html Problems? Send e-mail to Robert F Schmidt <[log in to unmask]>