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Ruby Breithaupt Photograph Collection, circa 1893-1910
Overview of the Collection
- Creator
- Breithaupt, Ruby, 1892-1983
- Title
- Ruby Breithaupt Photograph Collection
- Dates
- circa 1893-1910 (inclusive)18901910
1910 (bulk)19101910 - Quantity
- 0.01 cubic foot,including 5 photographs, (1 box)
- Collection Number
- P 042
- Summary
- The Ruby Breithaupt Photograph Collection consists of several photographs of Oregon Agricultural College students assembled by Breithaupt, including a 1910 image of a group at Jump-off Joe on Nye Beach in Newport, Oregon.
- 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
Biographical NoteReturn to Top
Ruby Elliott, from Gresham, Oregon, attended Oregon Agricultural College in the 1908/1909 and 1909/1910 academic years. She married LeRoy Breithaupt in 1912. LeRoy Breithaupt graduated from Oregon Agricultural College in 1910 with a degree in agriculture. He was superintendent of the Harney Agricultural Experiment Station from 1912 to 1917; became the Malheur County extension agent in 1920; and was an extension specialist in agricultural economics from 1926 until his retirement in 1951.
Content DescriptionReturn to Top
The Ruby Breithaupt Photograph Collection consists of five photographic prints of Oregon Agricultural College students assembled by Breithaupt. Four of the prints were made in 1910; they depict picnics, a trip to Jump-off Joe at Nye Beach in Newport, Oregon, and a group of students on the steps of Cauthorn (now Fairbanks) Hall. The following individuals are identified in the photos: Ethel Allen, LeRoy Breithaupt, Leona Davis Cox, Ruby Elliott, Rhetta Huntington, McKinley Huntington, Kat O'Connor, Carl Clifton Titus, and Alfred Edmund Volck.
The collection also includes one albumen print made by John Fulton in about 1893 of a group of Oregon Agricultural College students on the steps of the Station Building (now the Women's Center Building). This group includes Fred Buchanan, Brady Burnett, Edward Getty Emmett, and Erma Laurence.
Use of the CollectionReturn to Top
Preferred Citation
Ruby Breithaupt Photograph Collection (P 042), Oregon State University Archives, Corvallis, Oregon.
Administrative InformationReturn to Top
Names and SubjectsReturn to Top
Subject Terms
- College students--Oregon--Corvallis.
Personal Names
- Breithaupt, L. R. (Le Roy), 1886-
Corporate Names
- Oregon Agricultural College--Students.
Geographical Names
- Pacific Coast (Or.)
Form or Genre Terms
- Albumen prints.
- Photographic prints.
Other Creators
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Personal Names
- Fulton, John, 1868-1953. (creator)
Finding aid prepared by Elizabeth
Nielsen.
2007
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
