Book Nine, 1969-1979

The Dennis W. Pett Papers include articles, publications, and ephemera dating from 1943 to 1986. The collection is arranged in seven series.

Series I: Visual Literacy Notebooks contains articles and papers that Pett collected documenting the fields of visual literacy, photography, and education. These materials were originally received in notebooks that Pett organized into certain fields relating to Visual Literacy. Each folder title in the series is Book; each book represents a specific subject. Pett's original contents lists for each book can be found in the first folder of each Book.

Series II: Notebook Additions contains articles and papers that Pett collected, apparently with the intention of adding them to the notebooks housed in Series I. Also dealing with visual literacy, education, and photography, the articles have numbers assigned by Pett corresponding to the notebook numbers.

Series III: Bibliographies contains bibliographies collected by Ron Sutton dealing with visual literacy, photography, and other related subjects.

Series IV: Visual Literacy: Learning To See, Seeing To Learn houses a paper defining visual literacy and showing how photography can be used in schools, especially at the elementary level. Series V: Polaroid Education Project includes examples of materials and programs developed by the Polaroid Corporation using photography and illustrations four use in elementary and secondary school education.