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Will Photographs & Postcards, 1891-1921

Overview of the Collection

Creator
Will, Roy E
Title
Will Photographs & Postcards
Dates
1891-1921 (inclusive)
1908-1912 (bulk)
Quantity
2 Boxes, (18 Folders), (327 Images)
Collection Number
PC 125 (collection)
Summary
Portraits of Washington State College ca. 1908-1917, accumulated by then-students Roy Will and Jane Atherton Will. Notable is a series of photographs depicting a ROTC training camp at Clarkston, WA, held in 1912.
Repository
Washington State University Libraries' Manuscripts, Archives, and Special Collections (MASC)
Manuscripts, Archives, and Special Collections
Terrell Library Suite 12
Pullman, WA
99164-5610
Telephone: 509-335-6691
mascref@wsu.edu
Access Restrictions

This collection is open and available for research use.

Languages
English
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Content Description

Roy E Will and Jane (Jennie) E Atherton Will were students at Washington State ca. 1908-1913. Portraits of Washington State College ca. 1908-1912, accumulated by then-students Roy Will and Jane Atherton Will. Notable is a series of photographs depicting a ROTC training camp at Clarkston, WA, held in 1912. While a few images predate or postdate 1908-1912, the bulk of the materials are within that period. Roy Will's parents owned farmland near Harrington, WA, and the majority of the post-1913 farming photos are from that location.

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Use of the Collection

Preferred Citation

[Item Description] Will Photographs (PC 125)

Manuscripts, Archives, and Special Collections, Washington State University Libraries, Pullman, WA.

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Administrative Information

Arrangement

The scrapbook, associated materials, and acquisition materials are placed at the back of the collection. The remaining materials are organized loosely by place, with an informal alphabetical series of Washington State College files at the beginning, then Pullman materials, then materials further afield.

Acquisition Information

The Will photographs were gifted to Washington State University's Archives from Donna Setterberg of Portland, OR, granddaughter of Roy E Will and Jane (Jennie) E Atherton Will. They were received at the Archives on May 7, 2009 as UPC 2009-01. Two additional images were received from Donna Setterberg on Nov. 9, 2012, and added to the collection. 187 images, mostly postcards, were received in early 2019.

Processing Note

This collection was processed by University Archivist Mark O'English in May of 2009.

Related Materials

One notebook of fabrics and writings was removed from the collection for separate processing as Cage 4946. This notebook belonged to Jane Atherton Will, and is believed to have been from a WSC Home Economics course.

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Detailed Description of the Collection

  • Description: WSC buildings, 1907-1913. (23 images)
    Container: Box 1 , Folder 1
  • Description: WSC cadets, students, & crowd scenes, 1908-1917. Inc. one image of visit by "Fighting Bob" Evans, March 19, 1909. (21 images)
    Container: Box 1 , Folder 2
  • Description: WSC campus views, 1907-1913. (9 images)
    Container: Box 1 , Folder 3
  • Description: WSC football scenes, 1907-1908. (12 images) 
    Container: Box 1 , Folder 4
  • Description: WSC Foundation Day & Campus Day, 1911-1913. (11 images)
    Container: Box 1 , Folder 5
  • Description: WSC to Moscow Mountain outing, ca. 1910-1911. (5 images) 
    Container: Box 1 , Folder 6
  • Description: WSC ROTC Encampment, Clarkston, WA, 1912. (20 images) 
    Container: Box 1 , Folder 7
  • Description: WSC, Roy Will, 1909 & 1912. (3 images)
    Container: Box 1 , Folder 8
  • Description: Pullman, 1908-1913. (11 images)
    Container: Box 1 , Folder 9
  • Description: Pullman & Colfax, flood scenes, 1910. (8 images)
    Container: Box 1 , Folder 10
  • Description: Pullman, "flu muzzles," 1918. (1 image)
    Container: Box 1 , Folder 11
  • Description: Near Pullman - agricultural scenes, 1910-1913. (10 images)
    Container: Box 1 , Folder 12
  • Description: Other locations, 1909-1917. Includes Moscow, Palouse, Yakima River, Medical Lake, UW. (9 images)
    Container: Box 1 , Folder 13
  • Description: Roy Will's birthplace: Milton, OR, July 30, 1891. (1 image) 
    Container: Box 2 , Folder 14
  • Description: Hand-drawn postcards, 1908. (2 images)
    Container: Box 2 , Folder 15
  • Description: Scrapbook. Group and campus scenes at WSC, 1913; family and farmland at Harrington, WA, ca. 1915; San Francisco Panama-Pacific International Exposition, 1915. (155 images) 
    Container: Box 2 , Folder 16
  • Description: Loose scrapbook pages and images: WSC, 1913; Pasadena, 1919; farming at Harrington, WA, 1920-1921. (26 images) 
    Container: Box 2 , Folder 17
  • Description: Acquisition information, 2009 & 2013. (3 sheets) 
    Container: Box 2 , Folder 18

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Subject Terms

  • Universities and colleges -- Washington (State) -- History.

Personal Names

  • Will, Jane E Atherton (Jennie E Atherton) -- Archives
  • Will, Roy E -- Archives

Corporate Names

  • Washington State College -- History.
  • Washington State University -- History.

Other Creators

  • Personal Names

    • Will, Jane E Atherton (Jennie E Atherton) (creator)
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