The Samuel Blackwell Photographs and Papers contain black/white and color photographs, negatives, contact sheets, and color slides taken on the campuses of Lane Community College.

TThe Blackwell collection contains photographs and negatives of views of students in classrooms and participating in activities in a variety of courses offered by the Adult Education and Continuing Education programs. In addition to photographs taken on the main campus, the collection includes a series of photographs taken at other college locations such as the Downtown Center in Eugene, LCC at Florence, LCC at Cottage Grove, and Community Learning Centers located in high schools in the county. The collection also includes photographic prints and slides taken of buildings on the Lane main campus including images of buildings under construction.

Blackwell led overseas tours as part of a program at LCC called TraveLearn which combined travel and instruction. He taught photography on the tours he led to Europe, the Caribbean, Central and South America, Australia and New Zealand and the collection contains photographs and slides taken on these travels.

Sam Blackwell was in the medical corps during WWII and served in France, 1944-1946. He took photographs of soldiers, prisoners-of-war, and French towns and countryside showing local residents and damage to buildings from bombing and fighting. The collection includes photographic prints, negatives, albums, a negative log book, and exhibits.