P222 Guide to the English Department Photographs ca. 1960 Oregon State University English Department Photographs Funding for encoding this finding aid was provided through a grant awarded by the National Endowment for the Humanities. 1996 Oregon State University Archives
121 The Valley Library Oregon State University Corvallis, OR 97331-4501 Phone: 541-737-2165 Email: archives@oregonstate.edu Web: http://osulibrary.oregonstate.edu/archives
Encoded by Erin Whitesel-Jones. 2004 Finding aid written in English 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://osulibrary.oregonstate.edu/archives
P 222 Oregon State University. Dept. of English. English Department Photographs ca. 1960 17 negatives The English Department Photographs consist exclusively of images Bernard Malamud, novelist and Oregon State College English professor. Materials in English. Historical Note:

Novelist Bernard Malamud was an English professor at Oregon State College from 1949 to 1961. During this time he wrote three novels: The Natural (1952), The Assistant (1957), and A New Life (1961) as well as a collection of short stories, The Magic Barrel (1959) for which he received the National Book Award. He was presented OSU's Distinguished Service Award in 1969.

English has been part of the curriculum since the founding of the University in 1868. In the 1960s, the English Department became the first liberal arts department to offer a bachelor's degree.

This collection consists of photographs of Bernard Malamud. The images include various views of Malamud, standing in front of a fireplace, crouching at a bookshelf, looking out of a window, and with a cat in his lap. The photographs may have been made in his home. All of the images are original camera negatives, primarily 4x5, with some 120 format.

English Department Photographs (P 222), Oregon State University Archives, Corvallis, Oregon.

Other photographs of Malamud are available in Harriet's Collection as well as the Gwil Evans (P 82) and Oregon Stater (P 195) Photographic Collections. Biographical information about Malamud is in the Memorabilia Collection. Other materials pertaining to the English Department are available in the Memorabilia Collection and the Sigurd H. and Ruth Peterson Papers.

 Malamud, Bernard--Portraits. Film negatives. Oregon Photographs Colleges and Universities Literature