Descriptive Summary
Utah State University, Merrill-Cazier Library, Special Collections & Archives
Photograph Collection
Merrill-Cazier Library
Utah State University
3000 Old Main Hill
Logan, UT 84322-3000
Phone: 435 797-8248
Fax: 435 797-2880
Email: scweb@usu.edu
UUS_P0139
Utah
State Agricultural College. Sorosis Society.
Sorosis Society photograph collection
1899-1933
2 boxes
2 linear ft.
Thirty-two black & white photographs
documenting this USU sorority from the 1890s to the 1930s. The images include formal
portraits, informal group shots, views of the interior and exterior of the sorority
house, and snapshots of sorority activities. Most are silver gelatin developing-out
papers with the exception of 1:07:01, which is a collodion or gelatin printing-out
paper. They range in size from the smallest snapshot (5 cm. x 7 cm.) to oversize prints
(30 cm. x 35 cm.). Some of the images were apparently removed from a scrapbook.
Collection materials are in English.
Restrictions
Open to public research.
Copyright
It is the responsibility of the user to obtain permission to publish from the owner of
the copyright (the institution, the creator of the record, the author or his/her
transferees, heirs, legates, or literary executors). The user agrees to indemnify and
hold harmless the Utah State University Libraries, its officers, employees, and agents
from and against all claims made by any person asserting that he or she is an owner of
copyright.
Permission to publish material from the Sorosis Society photograph collection must
be obtained from the Special Collections Photograph Curator and/or the Special Collections
Department Head.
Sorosis Society photograph collection, 1899-1933. (P0139). Utah State University.
Special Collections & Archives Department.
These photographs were removed from University Archives accession 23.18/2 in November of
1997.
Register completed by Peter F. Schmid, November 1997, and revised by Daniel Davis,
November 2006.
Biographical Note
Sorosis is the oldest continuing sorority on the Utah State University campus founded in
1899. The sorority later became nationally affiliated as Alpha Chi Omega in 1944. This
collection was donated to Special Collections & Archives by Mrs. (Conrad) Ruth
Layton Harrison.
Arranged in numeric sequence according to Box, Folder, and Item
The Sorosis Society photograph collection consists of 32 black and white photographs
documenting this USU sorority from the 1890s to the 1930s. The images include formal
portraits, informal group shots, views of the interior and exterior of the sorority
house, and snapshots of sorority activities.
The prints are all silver gelatin developing-out papers with the exception of 1:07:01,
which is a collodion or gelatin printing-out paper. They range in size from the smallest
snapshot (5cm.x7cm.) to oversize prints (30cm.x35cm.). Some of the images were
apparently removed from a scrapbook.
Utah State Agricultural College. Sorosis Society. Records (record group 23.18/2)
Clubs and Societies
Utah State
Agricultural College. Sorosis Society--Photographs.
Alpha Chi
Omega. Beta Xi Chapter (Utah State University)--Photographs.
Utah State
University--Societies, etc.--Photographs.
Women--Utah--Logan--Societies
and clubs--Photographs.
Greek letter
societies--Utah--Logan--Photographs.
Universities and
colleges--Utah--Logan--Societies, etc.--Photographs.
Container List
Individual Portraits
undated
1
1
1:01:01
Hazel Gray. Photograph by Torgeson Studios,
Logan, Utah
1910-1919
1
2
1:02:01
Julia M. Sullivan Greene
1910-1919
1
3
1:03:01
Arminta Hogan
1920-1929
1
4
1:04:01
Elizabeth M. Nye
1910-1919
1
5
1:05:01
Thelma Pedersen
1920-1929
1
6
1:06:01
Unidentified. Photograph by Ford, Ogden
1910-1919
Group Portraits
undated
1
7
1:07:01
Group at leisure including Abbie Groesbeck(?),
Maughn Groesbeck(?), and Amanda Santchi
1895-1899
1
8
1:08:01
Formal group portrait, includes Edith Hayball,
Armania Maughan, Della Morrell, Blanch Cooper, Marie Eccles Caine, Anna
Matheson, Mary Bennion Powell, and Jesse Eccles Quinney
1910-1919
1
9
1:09:01
Formal group portrait including Eva Farr Parry.
Photograph by Odell, Logan, Utah
1910-1919
Snapshots
undated
1
10
1:10:01-16
Various group snapshots including Logan Canyon
canal and Hercules Power Company flume outtake at the mouth of Logan Canyon
1910-1929
1:10:02
1:10:09
House and Activities
undated
1
11
1:11:01
Exterior, Sorosis house in Logan
1932-1933
1
11
1:11:02
Interior, living room of the Sorosis house
1932-1933
1
12
1:12:01
Sorosis members posed outside the house
1932-1933
1
12
1:12:02
Sorosis pledges posed outside the house
1932-1933
1
13
1:13:01
Sorosis members posed outside the house
1932
Oversize
undated
2
2:01
Formal portrait. Photograph by Odell, Logan,
Utah. Includes Eva Farr
1910-1919
2
2:02
Portrait, faculty of Ogden High School posed
outside the school. Photograph by Noggle, Ogden, Utah. Includes Eva Farr
1912