The State College of Washingtons's Waller Hall opened in fall term of 1935 as the New Men's Dormitory, and was named in honor of former college Vice President Osmar Waller at the end of that year. It was expanded in 1957 by the addition of a fourth floor on each wing. It remained a men's dormitory for 80 years until closing at the end of spring term, 2015.
The collection consists of loose records relating to the men's residence hall at Washington State University, Waller Hall, as well as scrapbooks and loose photographs and slides. These were retained and managed by various students over a number of decades, and so the accumulation of materials was somewhat haphazard. The first series contains the papers and records, including hall meeting minutes, the hall guestbook, newsletters, and manuals. The second series is photographs, and the third slides, of hall events and daily life. The fourth series contains scrapbooks and oversize items. Two scrapbooks received with the others were so deteriorated that they had to be dismantled, and those photographs are now interfiled in the loose photographs series.
The collection is organized in four series. The first is organized alphabetically by subject, with a few short chronological subseries within that. The remaining series are arranged chronologically, with the fourth series having other oversized items placed with the scrapbooks so as to efficiently fit and store them.
This collection is open and available for research use.
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Washington State University Waller Hall Records and Photographs, 1942-2015 (Archives 339)
Manuscripts, Archives, and Special Collections, Washington State University Libraries, Pullman, WA.
These Waller Hall records had been maintained in that dormitory until it closed at the end of Spring term, 2015, at which point they were transferred to Washington State University Libraries' Manuscripts, Archives, and Special Collections (MASC) by Waller's "Duke of Windsor," Justin Niedermeyer. They were received on May 8, 2015 and retained as UA2015-06. In early 2025, a 2005 Waller Hall RCA Staff calendar came in with materials form other Housing facilities, and was interfiled here as folder 30.5.
This collection was processed in June, 2015 by University Archivist Mark O'English.
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