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The Buildings Photographs series (1.25 linear feet) includes numerous black and white and color exterior and interior views of the buildings that make up the university medical complex. The series also features prints and negatives documenting the construction of various hospital structures. The most complete series of construction photographs exist for the Taubman Medical Library and the second Medical Science Building. This series also contains many images of older, medical buildings, since torn down. Photographs of the first two campus hospital structures, built in 1869 and 1875, were brought together into a separate grouping ("Nineteenth Century Buildings"), along with folders for other buildings from this period. This grouping also contains a file of miscellaneous copy negatives of drawings and photographs of the early campus. Further, the series includes numerous views of early buildings in the Catherine Street area, such as the Maternity Hospital, the Contagious Hospital and the Psychopathic Ward. The "Old Main" Hospital, built in 1925, has three folders within this series, one of which contains oversized pictures and another of which documents the demolition the building. The series is most thorough in documenting the medical building program from the late 1940s to the late 1960s. There are multiple external views and occasional construction photos of the first two Kresge buildings, the two Medical Science Buildings, the Children's Hospital and numerous others. The demolition of the "Old Main" Hospital and construction of the "new" University Hospital (Taubman Center) are well documented in the series. Significant for researchers documenting the development of university medical construction, there are several aerial views of the hospital complex (all prints, except for one color negative). One of these dates from 1964, and others were taken during the 1980s and 1990s.