Class Sessions Photograph Collection

Class Sessions Photograph Collection, 1907-1961

Overview of the Collection

Creator: Oregon Agricultural College.
Title: Class Sessions Photograph Collection
Dates: 1907-1961 (inclusive)
19071961

1907-1918 (bulk)
19071918
Quantity: 0.01 cubic feet, including 20 photographic prints, (1 box)
Collection Number: P 047
Summary: The Class Sessions Photograph Collection depicts Oregon State University students and faculty in classroom settings and engaged in various learning activities in the early to mid-1900s. Classes pictured include farm mechanics, pharmacy, business, engineering, home economics, and other subjects.
This collection has been digitized and made available online.
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

Content DescriptionReturn to Top

The Class Sessions Photograph Collection is comprised of 19 unique black and white photographic prints depicting class sessions at Oregon State University (then Oregon Agricultural College and Oregon State College) from 1907-1961. The photographs include images of students and instructors in classrooms and outdoor learning environments. Several of the images include women students. Classes pictured include farm mechanics, camp cookery, pharmacy, business, engineering, bacteriology, woodshop, soils sciences, home economics, sociology, art, and other subjects.

The photographs in this collection have been assigned numbers P047:01-P047:20. P047:02 is not extant.

This collection has been digitized and made available online.

Use of the CollectionReturn to Top

Preferred Citation

Class Sessions Photograph Collection (P 047), Oregon State University Special Collections and Archives Research Center, Corvallis, Oregon.

Administrative InformationReturn to Top

Arrangement

The Class Sessions Photograph Collection is comprised of one series: Photographs, 1907-1961. The photographs are arranged in the order assigned during the collection's preliminary processing.

Acquisition Information

This collection was received by the Oregon State University Archives in the 1960s and appears to have been assembled from multiple sources. Image P047:03 was accessioned from the Oregon Stater magazine; P047:04 was accessioned from Kate Failing; P047:05 was accessioned from the Oregon State College News Bureau. P047:02 is not extant.

Processing Note

A preliminary container list for this collection was published in 2012. This finding aid has been updated to reflect current arrangement and description practices.

Related Materials

The Special Collections and Archives Research Center holdings include numerous photograph collections documenting student and employee activities on the Oregon State University campus. The Student Activities Photograph Collection (P 045), Associated Students of OSU (ASOSU) Photographs (P 154), Faculty and Staff Photograph Collection (P 046), and the Beaver Yearbook Photographs (P 003) include images of students, faculty, classes, and teaching spaces.

Detailed Description of the CollectionReturn to Top

Series 1: Photographs, circa 1907-1961Return to Top

Description	Dates
P047:01: Farm mechanics students working on farm machinery	circa 1915
P047:03: Two students posing with apparatus in a pharmacy class	1952
P047:04: Group photo of a camp cookery class Includes: Clifford H. Spalding, Foster McKinley Murphy, David Morris Johns, Robert Laurie Waddell, Wayne Walter Coe, Donald Edgar Brown, Ernest F. Crouchley, Eric William Neale, George Richmond Whitter, James Odye Beck, George Mahlon Stambach, Fredrick Aram Holmes, Owen H. Johnston, Glenn Shoemaker, Harold William Tinker, Wilson, Leon Myer Bernstein, Sereno Elmer Brett, and G. Millage Montgomery.	1913
P047:05: Female students typing in a business class Includes: Professor Fred E. Winger	1951
P047:06: Group photo of an engineering class Includes: W. J. Wright, Jim Leonard, Gary Jaros, Larry Reierson, Ray Sanders, Rich Walker, Doug Johnson, D. M. Montgomery, Neil Samuels, R. E. Evans, J. R. Wessek, Robin Harrison, C. J. Davson, K. L. Makie, Ralph Thompson, D. C. Chambers, W. H. Paul, Cliff Jacobsen and Richard Kaufman.	1961
P047:07: Bacteriology class Includes: Theodore Beckwith and Day [?]. Image by L. W. Jones Commercial Photographer, Portland, Oregon.	circa 1910
P047:08: Woodshop class	circa 1910
P047:09: Two students working in a soil science laboratory Image annotation: "Studying soil and moisture."	circa 1910
P047:10: Home economics students working on weaving and needlepoint projects	circa 1925
P047:11: A woman holding an infant watches as another woman sews a baby bib during a home management class	circa 1940
P047:12: Students in a chemistry laboratory Includes: Harding and Charles "Shrimp" Reynolds.	circa 1910
P047:13: Outdoor camp cookery class for women	circa 1918
P047:14: Men cooking over fire in camp cookery class	circa 1910
P047:15: Summer Session class in communications	circa 1955
P047:16: Participants in a geography class studying a wall-mounted map	circa 1950
P047:17: Dr. Hans Plambeck in session with a sociology class	circa 1960
P047:18: Women sitting on the front porch of Alpha Hall 2 photographic prints.	circa 1907
P047:19: Student sketching a male model in art class	1909
P047:20: Blacksmithing students in the blacksmith shop	circa 1908

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Subject Terms

College students--Oregon--Corvallis.
College teaching--Oregon--Corvallis.
Women--Education (Higher)--Oregon--Corvallis.

Corporate Names

Oregon Agricultural College--Faculty.
Oregon Agricultural College--Students.
Oregon State College--Faculty.
Oregon State College--Students.

Form or Genre Terms

Photographic prints.

Other Creators

Corporate Names
- Oregon State College. (creator)

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