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P
266
Home Management House
Photograph Collection
1945-1948
0.15 cubic foot, including 23
photographs
1 box
The Home Management House Photograph
Collection consists of images of home economics students residing in the
houses and several of the infants and children that lived with the Oregon
State students during the mid-1940s. A six-week residency in one of the
home management houses was a requirement of all home economics students at
Oregon State College.
Materials in English.
Historical Note:
Home management houses (or practice houses) were established in the
School of Home Economics in 1916 and a six-week residency in one of the
houses was required of all home economics students. Beginning in 1926,
infants and toddlers lived in the home management houses and were cared
for by the students and resident advisor. More than 50 children lived in
the home management houses for several weeks to a year from 1926 through
the 1940s.
The Home Management House Photograph Collection consists of images
assembled by a home economics student. The images consist primarily of
portrait photographs, made by Hise Studio, of children who lived in the
house during the mid-1940s -- Patsy, Susan, Jimmie, and Pamela. The
collection also includes images of Oregon State College home economics
students who were living in the home management houses and depict them
with the baby, learning about a new washing machine, and greeting
international students. A baptismal certificate for baby Susan is also
included in the collection.
Collection is open for research.
Home Management House Photograph Collection (P 266), Oregon State
University Archives, Corvallis, Oregon.
The photographs were transferred from the OSU Foundation in 2008.
Information pertaining to the home management houses is available in
the
College
of Home Economics and Education Records (RG 141) and the Human
Development and Family Sciences Department Records (RG 085). Additional
photographs of the home management houses and the babies and children are
available in the College of Home Economics Photographs (P 044) and
Harriet's Collection.
Oregon State
College. School of Home Economics.
Oregon State
College--Students.
Hise
Studio.
Children--Oregon--Corvallis--Portraits.
Child
rearing--Oregon--Corvallis.
Foster
children--Oregon--Corvallis.
Home economics
students--Oregon--Corvallis.
Home economics--Study and
teaching (Higher)--Oregon--Corvallis.
Photographic prints.
Children and Youth
Colleges and
Universities
Corvallis
Photographs