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Frederick Earl Price Photograph Collection, 1965

Overview of the Collection

Title
Frederick Earl Price Photograph Collection
Dates
1965 (inclusive)
Quantity
0.01 cubic foot, including 33 photographs, (1 box)
Collection Number
P 073
Summary
The Frederick Earl Price Photograph Collection consists of images of the retirement dinner for Price and includes photographs of Price's family and Oregon State University administrators. Frederick Earl Price was a faculty member at Oregon State and served as Dean of Agriculture and Director of the Agricultural Experiment Station and Extension Service from 1950 until his retirement in 1965.
Repository
Oregon State University Libraries, Special Collections and Archives Research Center
Special Collections and Archives Research Center
121 The Valley Library
Oregon State University
Corvallis OR
97331-4501
Telephone: 5417372075
Fax: 5417378674
scarc@oregonstate.edu
Access Restrictions

Collection is open for research.

Languages
English
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Biographical Note

F. E. "Earl" Price retired in 1965 after forty-three years of service to Oregon State University. Price graduated from Oregon Agricultural College and worked for the Cooperative Extension Service as a soils and irrigation specialist. In 1928 he became Professor of Agricultural Engineering in the Department of Agricultural Engineering and, in the 1930s, was appointed Dean in charge of agricultural instruction. In 1950 Price was again promoted to Dean of Agriculture and Director of the Agricultural Experiment Station and the Oregon State University Extension Service.

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Content Description

The Frederick Earl Price Photograph Collection consists of photos taken during Dean Price's retirement dinner in the Memorial Union in 1965. The images depict Price, his family, and Oregon State faculty and administrators, including President James Jensen. All of the images are b/w prints. The photographer is not identified.

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Use of the Collection

Preferred Citation

Frederick Earl Price Photographs (P 073), Oregon State University Special Collections & Archives Research Center, Corvallis, Oregon.

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Administrative Information

Arrangement

This collection is arranged in one series: I. Photographs.

Acquisition Information

The photographs were received by the University Archives in the 1960s.

Related Materials

The College of Agricultural Sciences (RG 158), Extension Service (RG 111), and Agricultural Experiment Station (RG 025) Records document Price's role as an administrator of these units during the 1950s and 1960s.

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Detailed Description of the Collection

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Subject Terms

  • College administrators--Oregon--Corvallis.

Personal Names

  • Jensen, James H.
  • Price, F. E. (Frederick Earl), 1898-

Corporate Names

  • Oregon State University--Faculty.

Form or Genre Terms

  • Photographic prints.

Finding aid prepared by Ryan Atwood and Anna Brecheisen.
2014

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