Lloyd Robbins was an amateur photographer who photographed Pullman and the campus during the 1890’s. He was apparently a friend of George Ritchey (PC 13) and photographed him at work in a grain storage elevator in Pullman; the photos taken from Military Hill appear to have been taken from Ritchey's home on Windus Street.
The collection consists of 10 glass negatives of Pullman, Washington, including images of the, then, State College of Washington campus and of a grain storage elevator, and 1 glass negative of Endicott, Washington. (Recent prints have been made of most of the images.)
Digitized versions of these images can be found in the
This collection is open and available for research use.
Lloyd Robbins Photographs of Pullman, circa 1895-1900 (PC 14)
Manuscripts, Archives, and Special Collections, Washington State University Libraries, Pullman, WA.
Circumstantial evidence inplies they may have been held by Kester Grimes, a nephew of George Ritchey's wife, Carlotta (what are described as prints made from Grimes-owned Pullman and WSU glass plates in the early 1900s are recorded as being donated on May 11, 1962).
The Washington State University Library received the Lloyd Robbins collection of glass negatives circa 1971.
This collection was processed by David Smestad in March, 1978.
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