OREp009.xml Guide to the Women's Athletics Photograph Collection 1899-1958 Oregon State College Women's Athletics Photograph Collection Finding aid prepared by Elizabeth Nielsen and Bryce Henry. Oregon State University Libraries, University Archives 2010
121 The Valley Library Oregon State University Corvallis, OR 97331-4501 Phone: 541-737-2165 Email: archives@oregonstate.edu Web: http://osulibrary.oregonstate.edu/archives
Finding aid encoded by Bryce Henry and Elizabeth Nielsen. 2010 Finding aid written in English. Finding aid based on DACS ( Describing Archives: A Content Standard). Oregon State University Libraries, Special Collections & Archives Research Center University Archives
121 The Valley Library Oregon State University Corvallis, OR 97331-4501 Phone: 541-737-2165 Email: archives@oregonstate.edu Web: http://osulibrary.oregonstate.edu/archives
P 009 Women's Athletics Photograph Collection 1899-1958 1921-1940 0.03 cubic foot, including 60 photographs 2 boxes, including 1 oversize box The Women's Athletics Photograph Collection consists of images of teams, events, and individual athletes participating in a variety of sports and recreational activities at Oregon State, primarily during the 1920s and 1930s. Materials in English. Historical Note:

Intramural and intercollegiate athletics as well as physical recreation activities have been offered for women at Oregon State since at least as early as the 1890s. During the early and middle decades of the 20th century, Oregon State had one of the largest women's athletics program in the northwest. Oregon State's first basketball team was the women's team, established in 1898 and preceding the first men's team by 3 years. Several women basketball players were selected to receive the college emblem in the early 1900s by the Athletic Union.

The Women's Athletics Photograph Collection consists of images of teams, events, and individual athletes participating in a variety of sports and recreational activities at Oregon State, primarily during the 1920s and 1930s. The collection includes images of archery, badminton, baseball, basketball, dance, fencing, field hockey, gymnastics, horseback riding, softball, swimming, tennis, track, volleyball, and waterskiing. Of special note are images of the first women's basketball team in 1898-1899. The collection also includes several images of dance performances and pageants.

All of the images are photographic prints and have been assigned individual numbers. Several images in the collection are available online. Many of the photographs were published in the Beaver yearbook.

Collection is open for research.

The collection consists of one series: I. Women's Athletic Teams and Events, 1899-1958.

Women's Athletics Photograph Collection (P 009), Oregon State University Archives, Corvallis, Oregon.

The images were acquired by the Archives from various sources primarily during the 1960s.

Additional photographs of women's athletes and athletic teams and events are available in Harriet's Collection. The Women's Recreation Association (WRA) Photographic Collection (P 171) consists of images of athletic events and recreational activities, primarily during the 1950s-1960s; the Oregon State University Women's Basketball and Field Hockey Scrapbooks include photographs of teams and and events during the 1960s. The Betty Lynd Thompson Papers include extensive materials document dance instruction and performances at Oregon State; the Health and Human Performance Records (RG 031) include materials pertaining to physical education and recreational activities at Oregon State.

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Series I consists of photographs of individual athletes and teams as well as athletic events and recreational activities. The names of identified individuals are included in the description; images that were published in the Beaver yearbook are indicated as such.

 P009:01 1 Captain Alta Mentzer circa 1920 2 prints

Basketball player.

 P009:03 1 Junior hockey team circa 1920 2 prints P009:04 1 Tennis action circa 1920 2 prints P009:05 1 Softball scene circa 1920 P009:07 1 Women's basketball team 1899

Standing L-R: Inez Fuller, Coach Will Beach, Bessie Smith, Lona [Lana?] Smith. Sitting L-R: Leta Owensby, Fanny Getty

 P009:08 1 College basketball team 1899 2 prints

L-R: Bessie G. Smith, Letita Ownsbey, Elizabeth Hoover, Coach Will Beach, Minnie Smith, Inez Fuller (by banner in-front). Published in the June 1900 Souvenir Edition of the Barometer, which is available online.

 P009:09 1 Women athletes circa 1904 2 prints

Kneeling: Alice Wicklund, Eva Stoats (Mrs. FC Ritner), Edith Prince, Alice Jones, Maud Roberts (Mrs. HC Brodie), Margaret May Martin, Verna Kerker, Mary Elgin. Sitting: Ruth Lilly (Mrs. EH Pratt), Winnie Logan (Mrs. ER Woods), Maggie Maud Hays, Reta Price, Edna Buster (Mrs. JS Wheeler), Myrtle Harrington, Elizabeth "Bess" Yates, Mabel Stovall, Louise Gilbert. In Front: Reva Buell, Hazel Raber (Mrs. JC Ewing),Luella "Mary" VanCleve (Mrs. FL Stephens). Standing: Bess Danneman, Mary Danneman, Loene Montgomery, Laura Persinger, Alice Edwards, Lucile Roberts, Pearl Persinger, Candice Wicklund, Essie Adams, Jessie Wilson, Margaret McCormick, Gretta Harringtion, Una Stewart (Mrs. JW Carlson), Frances Gellatly, Madeline Nichols.

P009:10 1 Women's gymnastic team in a gymnastic formation circa 1930s 2 prints P009:11 1 Winning junior basketball team 1929

Pearl Horning, Alma Taylor, Mabel Harding, Eleanor Tonsing, Ruth Rydell, Martha Jane Pocklington, Audra Liska, Elda Aasen, Florence Kaufman.

P009:12 1 Women in May Day pageant doing dance depiction of the history of Oregon 1921

Published in the 1921 Beaver yearbook, page 310.

P009:13 1 Women fencing in gym class 1938

Published in the 1938 Beaver yearbook, page 216.

P009:14 1 Three women pinning one to the ground in fencing class 1938

Published in the 1938 Beaver yearbook, page 216.

P009:15 1 Three women playing basketball in gym class 1938

Published in the 1938 Beaver yearbook, page 214.

P009:16 1 Two women playing badminton in gym class 1938

Published in the 1938 Beaver yearbook, page 215.

P009:17 1 The physical education club on the steps of the Women's Building 1940

Published in the 1940 Beaver yearbook, page 149.

 P009:18 1 Badminton in the Women's Building, played by two women 1940

Published in the 1940 Beaver yearbook, page 147.

P009:19 1 Members of the Archery Club sitting around a target outside the Women's Building 1940-1941

Published in the 1940 Beaver yearbook, page 148.

P009:20 1 Women playing volleyball in the Women's Building 1938

Published in the 1938 Beaver yearbook, page 215.

P009:21 1 Women in modern dance class 1938

Published in the 1938 Beaver yearbook, page 215.

P009:22 1 Women playing baseball in field behind Women's Building 1938

Published in the 1938 Beaver yearbook, page 216.

P009:23 1 Women swimming in pool, probably playing some kind of water polo 1938

Published in the 1938 Beaver yearbook, page 218.

 P009:24 1 Women playing basketball in Women's Building 1940

Published in the 1940 Beaver yearbook, page 146.

 P009:25 1 Women playing volleyball in gym class, in the Women's Building 1940

Published in the 1940 Beaver yearbook, page 146.

P009:26 1 Captain and member of the junior basketball team 1921 P009:27 1 Junior volleyball champions 1929

Includes Frances Reid, Captain, Commerce; Helen Wirkkala, Commerce; Marie Baumback, Home Economics; June Hudson, Commerce; Gennette Miner, Home Economics; and Lan Chen Kung, Home Economics. Published in 1929 Beaver yearbook, page 245.

 P009:28 1 Women's swimming group 1941

Includes Audrey Louise Johnson.

 P009:29 1 Sharon Spencer, Homecoming Queen for 1958-1959, waterskiing at the Cypress Gardens in Florida 1958 2 prints P009:30 1 Double badminton championship for Sackett B 1951

Marjorie English and Virginia Moses.

 P009:31 1 Orchesis members in a dance formation 1951

Pat Kelley and Phyllis Horseman.

 P009:32 1 Track, a girl jumping over the high jump circa 1925 2 prints P009:33 1 Track, woman preparing to throw discus jump circa 1925 P009:34 1 Baseball team playing in field behind Women's Building; Weatherford Hall in background. 1940

Published in 1940 Beaver yearbook, page 148.

 P009:35 1 Volleyball game in the Women's gym 1938

Published in 1938 Beaver yearbook, page 215.

 P009:36 1 Track; four women running the hurdles in front of the stadium circa 1925 P009:37 1 Track; a woman jumping the high jump circa 1925 P009:38 1 Woman jumping the broad jump on track behind bleachers circa 1925 P009:39 1 Junior basketball team 1921

Published in the 1921 Beaver yearbook, page 305.

 P009:40 1 Physical education dance group outside on the lawn circa 1930 P009:41 1-2 Dance pageant on the lawn 1923 3 prints and 2 oversize prints

Published in the 1923 Beaver yearbook, page 319.

 P009:42 1 Mother's Day pageant, women dancing on the lawn 1925 P009:43 1 Mother's Day pageant, women dancing on the lawn 3 prints 1925 P009:44 1 Women's field hockey P009:45 1 Two women in dance or formal dresses circa 1925 P009:46 - P009:47 1 Four women with horses circa 1930

Equestrian team (?).