Phillip Parcher attended Oregon Agricultural College 1915-1919 and graduated with a degree in Industrial Arts in 1919. He was born on February 26, 1895. According to the 1925 alumni directory, Parcher was a teacher at Benson Polytechnic in Portland, Oregon.
The Phillip Parcher Photograph Album consists exclusively of duplicate 8x10 inch prints of photographs made by Parcher during the summer of 1915, while he was attending Oregon Agricultural College Summer Session. The photographs depict campus buildings and views and other local scenes. Of special note are images of a monkey puzzle tree near Benton Hall, the Willamette River near Corvallis, and the Liberty Bell en route through Oregon. In 1915, the Liberty Bell was shipped on a flat rail car from Philadelphia to San Francisco for exhibition at the Panama-Pacific Exposition. En route the train made a short stop at Junction City, where the photographs in this collection were taken.
According to the description included in the album, the photographs were made with an Eastman View Camera on 5x7 glass plates. The glass negatives were no longer extant as of 1974. The prints in the album were reproduced from the original 5x7 prints, which are not part of this collection. The 8x10 prints were likely made in the early 1970s, shortly before they were received by the Oregon State University Archives.
Collection is open for research.
This collection is arranged in one series: I. Photographs, 1915.
Phillip Parcher Photograph Album (P 143), Oregon State University Special Collections & Archives Research Center, Corvallis, Oregon.
The album was received by the University Archives in 1974.
The cover sheet in the photograph album indicates that the photographs were made by Fred P. Parcher. No record was found to confirm enrollment for Fred Parcher at Oregon Agricultural College in the summer of 1915 or graduation in 1919. However, Philip Parcher was enrolled in the summer of 1915 and graduated in 1919. Consequently, the collection has been renamed the Philip Parcher Photograph Album. In 2014, the photographs and description were separated from the album, which was removed from the collection.
The Special Collections & Archives Research Center's holdings include numerous collections with photographs from this time period depicting campus buildings and views. Harriet's Collection (P HC) and the Buildings Photograph Collection (P 016) provide extensive photographic documentation of campus. Other collections with photographs from this time period are the
Series I consists of photographs of buildings at Oregon Agricultural College as well as two photographs of the Liberty Bell.
Later Social Science Hall; now Gilkey Hall.
Now Milam Hall.
Now Kearney Hall.
Later Education Hall; now Furman Hall.
View from the west with agricultural field in foreground.
Now Merryfield Hall; ivy-covered wall.
Sign advertising "ice cold drinks"; bicycle on porch.
The Willamette River at Corvallis, Oregon, showing a ferry in the foreground and the recently constructed Van Buren Street Bridge in the distance.
While en route from Philadelphia to San Francisco for the Panama-Pacific Exposition, the Liberty Bell was placed on display in Junction City, Oregon. One of the images is available