OREp123.xml Guide to the Pitts Elmore Photographs 1921-1922 Elmore (Pitts) Photographs Finding aid prepared by Elizabeth Nielsen. Oregon State University Libraries, University Archives 2009
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
Finding aid encoded by Elizabeth Nielsen. 2009 Finding aid written in English. Finding aid based on DACS ( Describing Archives: A Content Standard). Oregon State University Libraries, Special Collections & Archives Research Center 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
P 123 Elmore, J. Pitts, 1903- Pitts Elmore Photographs 1921-1922 0.01 cubic foot, including 7 photographs 1 box The Pitts Elmore Photographs consist of several views of Oregon Agricultural College buildings and campus scenes taken by Elmore, who graduated from Oregon Agricultural College in 1925. Materials in English. Biographical Note:

Pitts Elmore, from Santa Maria California, attended Oregon Agricultural College from 1920 until 1925, with a break in 1924 due to illness. He earned a BS in Electrical Engineering. Elmore was an avid campus photographer and was Assistant Editor of the 1924 Beaver yearbook. Many of his photos were published in the 1923, 1924, and 1925 editions of the Beaver. He lived in California after graduation.

Elmore was born in Kansas City Missouri on January 29, 1903 and died in Las Vegas, Nevada on March 4, 1994.

The Pitts Elmore Photographs consist of four images of campus scenes and buildings. They include the Trysting Tree, the entrance to Waldo Hall, and the entrance to Apperson (now Kearney) Hall -- all taken in the spring of 1922. An image of the front of Apperson Hall after a snowstorm in the winter of 1921-1922 is also included.

Several duplicate prints of the Trysting Tree image (made in the 1980s or 1990s) are part of this collection. The original glass negative for the Trysting Tree photograph is part of the Sydney Trask Photographic Collection (P096:009).

Collection is open for research.

Pitts Elmore Photographs (P 123), Oregon State University Archives, Corvallis, Oregon.

The photographs were acquired by the Archives in the 1960s.

Additional photographs taken by Elmore are part of Harriet's Collection (HC 2949). Many of the Archives' photographic collections include images of campus building and scenes, including Harriet's Collection and the Buildings Photographic Collection (P 016).

 Oregon Agricultural College--Buildings. College buildings--Oregon--Corvallis. Photographic prints. Colleges and Universities Corvallis Photographs