This record group is comprised of analog and digital image files amassed by Communications and External Affairs (CEA), one of The New School's largest administrative units. Images in this series may take the form of prints, contact sheets, transparencies, negatives, and digital image files stored on optical disk. Many of the prints and contact sheets bear editorial markings, providing evidence of use in course catalogs and other promotional materials, press kits, and other marketing and publicity products created by this office.

Although earlier materials are present, the bulk of the documentation begins in the late 1960s and proceeds up to the early 2000s. It is possible that the documentation ends at this point due to changes in image storage technologies, with Marketing and Communications staff storing born-digital images on computer networks and databases, rather than in physical filing cabinets, which is how the files comprising this record group were stored prior to transfer to their transfer to the Archives.

Photographers represented include, in roughly chronological order: Gin Briggs (1960s), Peter Moore (late 1960s-1970s), Paul Seligman (1970s), Stanley Seligson (1970s-1980s), Bob Adelman (late 1970s-1980s), Björg (1980s-1990s), Joseph Schuyler (1980s-1990s), Jerry Speier (1980s-1990s), Karen Zebulon (1980s), Jerry Bauer (1990s), Arlene Collins (1990s), Brooke Hunyady (1990s), Harry Heleotis (1990s-2000s), and Stephanie Berger (2000s).