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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
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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
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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
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. Photographs in the series have been assigned numbers P047:01-P047:20. P047:02 is not extant.
Description | Dates |
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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.
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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 |
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 |
circa 1908 |
Names and SubjectsReturn to Top
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
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Corporate Names
- Oregon State College. (creator)