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MSS
Bryant
Bryant, William C. (William Cullen), 1875-1931.
William C. Bryant Collection
1902-1905
0.03 cubic foot, including 5
photographs
1 box
The William C. Bryant Collection consists
of publications, ephemera, and photographs assembled by Bryant during his
student years at Oregon Agricultural College from 1902 to 1905.
Materials in
English.
Biographical Note:
William Cullen Bryant, from Woodburn, Oregon, attended Oregon
Agricultural College (OAC) from 1902 to 1905. Bryant studied mechanical
engineering, but did not complete a degree. He lived in Cauthorn Hall, the
first residence hall for men at OAC constructed in 1892.
Bryant was an educator and lawyer and served as superintendent of
schools in Sherman County, Oregon, for 3 years. He was born in Nebraska in
1875 and died in Moro, Oregon, in 1931.
The William C. Bryant Collection consists of publications, ephemera,
and photographs assembled by Bryant during his student years at Oregon
Agricultural College (OAC) in 1902 to 1905. The publications include two
OAC
New Friends notebooks with autographs of
fellow students; a college bulletin for 1902-1903 with annotations by
Bryant for his brother; a 1904-1905 student handbook and calender with
notations; and a pamphlet on cadet regulations from the Oregon National
Guard. The ephemera include a broadside with the words for football game
yells and songs, a photocopy of a sign requesting information on vandalism
to a campus building in 1902, and a letter from Professor John B. Horner
to George Pope, of Woodburn, referring to Bryant.
The collection includes five mounted photographic prints of fellow
students or individuals affiliated with Cauthorn Hall dated 1904-1905. Two
of the images are portrait photographs of waitresses at Cauthorn Hall
(P140:1 and P140:5) made by W.S. Gardner. One of the images (P140:3) is a
portrait photograph of Mrs. R.L. Whitehead, the Cauthorn Hall housemother
and "Superintendent of the Culinary Department". The fourth image is a
portrait photograph by William G. Emery of John Schroeder, an OAC student
in his cadet uniform (P140:4). The final image is of two young men
standing outdoors in front of a stand of trees (P140:2) One of the men is
identified as John Wiggins.
Collection is open for research.
William C. Bryant Collection, Oregon State University Archives,
Corvallis, Oregon.
Mary Hill, Bryant's daughter, gave the publications and ephemera to the
Oregon State University School of Education, which transferred them to the
Archives.
The photographs were acquired by the Archives in the 1960s. The
publications and ephemera were transferred to the Archives by the School
of Education in 2003.
The
Cauthorn
Club Records (RG 101) include financial records for room and
board paid by men residents in 1893-1896 and 1908-1909. The Archives
holdings include many other collections with Oregon Agricultural College
photographs and ephemera from the early 1900s including the
Bertha
Andresen Photographs (P 026),
G.
Herbert Root Photograph Collection (P 127), and
James A.
Sewell Photograph Album (P 259). Harriet's Collection includes
many images from this time period, including photographs of the Class of
1905.
Emery, W.
G.
Gardner, W.S.
Horner, John
B., 1856-1933
Oregon
Agricultural College--Students.
Oregon.
National Guard.
College
students--Oregon--Corvallis.
Student
activities--Oregon--Corvallis.
Student
housing--Oregon--Corvallis.
Women--Oregon--Corvallis.
Ephemera.
Photographic
prints.
Colleges and
Universities
Military
Student Life
Women
Oregon
Corvallis
Photographs