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P
148
Schneider, Nicholas, 1893-
Nicholas Schneider Photograph
Collection
1912-1915
1914-1915
0.01 cubic foot, including 11
photographs
1 box
The Nicholas Schneider Photograph
Collection consists of images of fellow students and student activities
assembled by Schneider during this student years at Oregon Agricultural
College (OAC) prior to World War I. Schneider attended OAC in 1912-1916
and returned after the war to complete a BS in commerce in
1922.
Materials in English.
Biographical Note:
Alumnus Nicholas Schneider earned a BS degree in Commerce from Oregon
Agricultural College (OAC) in 1922.
A native of Portland, Oregon, Schneider completed school through the
8th grade in Portland and enrolled at OAC in the secondary school program
during the 1912/1913 and 1913/1914 school years. He was enrolled as a
freshman for the 1914/1915 year and in the vocational program in the
1915/1916 year. After military service during World War I, he returned to
OAC in the summer of 1919 and completed his degree in 1922.
The Nicholas Schneider Photograph Collection consists of images
assembled by Schneider during his student years at Oregon Agricultural
College (OAC) prior to World War I. The images are primarily of fellow
students and student activities. The items appear to have been removed
from a scrapbook and are numbered P148:01 thru P148:09. The collection
includes duplicate modern prints (probably made in the 1960s or 1970s) of
two of the images.
The prints include images of the canoe house and a canoe on Fischer's
Mill Race and the annual tug-of war between the freshman and sophomore
classes at Fischer's Mill Race in 1915. One of the tug-of-war images is
available
online.
Prints of the Class of 1918 sophomore class football team and cadets
drilling on campus are part of the collection. An image of 3 students
(Schneider, Greenlee, and Crane) standing next to a snow bank on Marys
Peak in 1914 and a snapshot of several students standing on Monroe Street
in 1912 are included. The collection also includes a photograph of Jim
Arbuthnot, an OAC physical education instructor, and Schneider changing a
tire on Arbuthnot's car (a Maxwell).
Collection is open for research.
Nicholas Schneider Photograph Collection (P 148), Oregon State
University Archives, Corvallis, Oregon.
The photographs were donated by Schneider in the 1960s.
The Archives' holdings include many collections with images of students
and students activities during the 1910s. The
James T.
Gaither Photograph Collection (P 275) also includes several
images of the annual tug-of-war between the college freshmen and
sophomores.
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Agricultural College--Students.
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students--Oregon--Corvallis.
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education--Oregon--Corvallis.
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activities--Oregon--Corvallis.
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