Washington State University Wilmer-Davis Hall Scrapbooks, 1937-2013

The collection consists of approximately four dozen scrapbooks created by the students and student advisors of Washington State University's Wilmer and Davis Halls, covering dates from 1937-2013. The scrapbooks document student life in these two women's dormitories, and include photographs, clippings, and ephemera. The contents change by years and are representative of the available technologies of their times - earlier scrapbooks tend to be more utilitarian, primarily newspaper clippings, while the later scrapbooks tend to be primarily photographic, and more ornate.

A small amount of student government materials, primarily minutes from 1994-2006 and two ledgers covering 1948-1981, are also included in the collection.

Individual scrapbooks were unbound and foldered upon arrival in the archives, with their commercially-purchased covers being discarded. The sole exception is the wood-bound 1941-1946 scrapbook in box 2. Several dozen loose pages, apparently either created individually or previously parsed from other scrapbooks, have been placed in folders with the scrapbooks with matching dates. Some dates overlap or even duplicate each other; this is how these were received in the archives.

While Wilmer-Davis is generally treated as one dorm today, this was not the case in the early days of this collection, so sometimes a scrapbook will be specific only to one dorm. For ease of patron use, the folder listing below is a chronological list, rather than an ordered box-folder list, with the oversized materials at the end.