OREferguson.xml Guide to the Iona Irving Ferguson Collection 1893-1950 Ferguson (Iona Irving) Collection Finding aid prepared by Elizabeth Nielsen Oregon State University Archives
121 Valley Library Corvallis, OR, 97331-4501 541-737-2165 archives@oregonstate.edu
2011 This finding aid was produced using the Archivists' Toolkit 2011-09-02 Finding aid written in English. Finding aid based on DACS (Describing Archives: A Content Standard). Iona Irving Ferguson Collection MSS.Ferguson Oregon State University Libraries, Special Collections & Archives Research Center
121 The Valley Library Oregon State University Corvallis, OR 97331-4501 Phone: 541-737-2165 Email: archives@oregonstate.edu Web: http://archives.library.oregonstate.edu
Collection materials are in English. 0.15 cubic feet, including 2 photographs 2 boxes, including 1 oversize box 1911-1924 1893-1950 The Iona Irving Ferguson Collection consists of ephemera assembled by Iona Margaret Irving, primarily during her student years at Oregon Agricultural College (OAC). Irving graduated from OAC in 1915 with a BS in Home Economics and married Oscar Ferguson, a 1916 OAC graduate, in 1917. Collection materials are in . Ferguson, Iona Irving. Biographical Note:

Iona Margaret Irving enrolled at Oregon Agricultural College (OAC) in September 1911 and graduated in 1915 with a BS in Home Economics. She attended summer sessions at OAC in 1916, 1923, and 1926 and was enrolled as a graduate student in spring term of 1925. Irving married Oscar Ferguson, a 1916 graduate of OAC, in 1917; they lived in Kansas City, Chicago, and Eastern Oregon during the next several years and by the mid-1920s were living in Selma, California.

Iona was born August 23, 1893 in Salem, Oregon; she graduated from Central High School, in Washington, DC. She died in California in 1992.

Additional information about the Irving family is available in the central file for this collection.

Collection is open for research.

The materials were donated to the Archives in 2011 by John W. Irving, an extended family member of Iona Irving Ferguson.

Iona Irving Ferguson Collection, Oregon State University Archives, Corvallis, Oregon.

The Archives holdings include numerous collections of student memorabilia and ephemera assembled during the 1910s. Other collections that document the student experience in the mid-1910s are the Irwin Betzel Collection, A. Freeman Mason Scrapbook, Francis and Lois Wilson Neer Photograph Album (P 206), Nicholas Schneider Photograph Collection (P 148), and Marshall S. Wright Photograph Album (P 276). The Milton O. Stemmler Student Diary includes entries of income and expenses for a student who attended Oregon Agricultural College in the 1890s.

The Iona Irving Ferguson Collection consists of ephemera assembled by Iona Margaret Irving, primarily during her student years at Oregon Agricultural College. The collection includes invitations, dance cards, and programs as well as newspaper clippings, postcards, publications, a grade report, and artifacts. Of special note is a student account book, sold by the College Bookstore, in which she tracked her income (receipts) and expenditures (payments) by month. The book includes several receipts from local Corvallis busineses.

The publications include a 1917 alumni directory, commencement programs, and a 1924 history of the Classes of 1914 and 1915. The artifacts include a ribbon, pins, a felt sash with for the Class of 1915, two medals from a Golden Jubilee alumni reunion, a decorative leather memory book, and a souvenir coin from the 1893 Columbia Exposition.

The collection includes two photographs. One is a photographic postcard of members of the Margaret Snell Club, all dressed in white, with Snell in front of Waldo Hall. The second is a hand-colored image of Iona in her graduation cap and gown.

 Oregon Agricultural College--Students. College costs--Oregon--Corvallis. College students--Oregon--Corvallis. Student activities--Oregon--Corvallis. Colleges and Universities Corvallis Oregon Photographs Student Life Women Dance cards. Ephemera. Photographic postcards. Photographic prints.