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Photographs: Prints, 1880-1986
The Visual Materials series includes photographic prints, negatives, and glass slides, and motion picture films and negatives. They offer especially good coverage of Maddy's life and the Camp's early years as well as a sampling of later events and personages.
Interlochen maintains its own photographic and audio archives which offer more extensive coverage, particularly for more recent events. Much of the Interlochen holdings remain in active use for publicity, rebroadcast, and listening purposes. For information about them, researchers should contact the photo archive, music library, or radio station (WIAA) at Interlochen.
Photographs consist of prints (including a few postcards), negatives, and glass slides. They cover both Maddy's career and Interlochen's history. Since the two are closely interrelated, researchers interested in one should check the other. The Interlochen images were taken by both staff members and professional photographers. Documentation about professionals can be found under "photography" in Chronological Camp files, 1935-1945. Often, the images were used for publicity purposes in publications by, or articles about, Interlochen.
The Prints (1), circa 1880-1986, has separate descriptions for regular and outsized images, including sections on Maddy, the National High School Orchestra, the Early Camp, Later Camp/Academy, and Later Administrators.
Maddy, circa 1880-1967
The Maddy portion, circa 1880-1967, features his parents, brother, family homes, boyhood friends, recreational activities, and major events in his professional career, including his broadcasting, conducting, and other music education endeavors. They also cover his work at Interlochen, including scenes of him with many prominent guests. The prints begin before his birth and conclude a year after his death (with the sculptured bust presented to Interlochen in his memory). Volumes 3 and 4 of the Scrapbooks, 1938-1940, also contain images of Maddy.
Closely related to both Maddy and the Camp are scenes of the National High School Orchestra. They cover its appearances, 1926-1930 and 1938. The last, a special revival for the MENC convention in St. Louis, Missouri, with Joseph Maddy presiding, celebrated the centennial of music education in America.