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Women's Recreation Association (WRA) Photographic Collection, 1910-1965

Overview of the Collection

Creator
Women's Recreation Association (Oregon State University)
Title
Women's Recreation Association (WRA) Photographic Collection
Dates
1910-1965 (inclusive)
1955-1965 (bulk)
Quantity
0.1 cubic foot, including 150 photographs, (1 box )
Collection Number
P171
Summary
The Women's Recreation Association (WRA) Photographic Collection consists predominantly of photographs of WRA officers and women's athletic activities and events at Oregon State University. The WRA offered intramural and intercollegiate athletics as well as recreational activities for women from the late 1940s until 1973.
Repository
Oregon State University Libraries, Special Collections and Archives Research Center
Special Collections and Archives Research Center
121 The Valley Library
Oregon State University
Corvallis OR
97331-4501
Telephone: 5417372075
Fax: 5417378674
scarc@oregonstate.edu
Access Restrictions

Collection is open for research.

Languages
English
Sponsor
Funding for encoding this finding aid was provided through a grant awarded by the National Endowment for the Humanities.
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Historical Note

The Women's Recreation Association was organized in the late 1940s to offer both intramural and intercollegiate athletics as well as recreational activities for women. Its predecessor was the Women's Athletic Association. The WRA continued to be active until 1973 when the Women's Intercollegiate Athletic Department was formed.

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Content Description

This collection consists of photographs of the Women's Recreation Association (WRA) officers and women's athletic activities and events. A variety of sports are represented including synchronized swimming; dance; basketball; volleyball; softball; field hockey; tennis; gymnastics; bowling; horseback riding; archery; and canoeing.

The collection also includes 12 postcards of Oregon Agricultural College campus views and buildings as well as the Benton County Courthouse, the Corvallis Methodist Episcopal Church, and a downtown Corvallis street scene.

The collection consists exclusively of photographic prints (P171:1-159) and 3.5 x 5.5 in postcards (P171:160-171). Most of the prints are 5x7 b/w or smaller; there are a few 8x10 b/w prints and only 5 snapshot-type color prints. Six of the postcards are color.

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Use of the Collection

Preferred Citation

Women's Recreation Association (WRA) Photographic Collection (P 171), Oregon State University Archives, Corvallis, Oregon.

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Administrative Information

Arrangement

All of the images have been assigned individual item numbers (P171:1-P171:171).

Related Materials

Other photographs of the Women's Recreation Association can be found in a set of 13 scrapbooks for the years 1948/49 through 1968/69 (D143-156); other scrapbooks document women's basketball and field hockey of the mid 1960s (D162-165). Photographs of women's athletics are included in many other Photographic Groups (especially P 9, Athletics - Women's Photographic Collection) and Harriet's Photographic Collection. Paper records of the WRA are a part of the College of Health and Human Performance Records (RG 31).

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Detailed Description of the Collection

  • Description: P171:001: Carolyn Laughlin
    Dates: 1958-1959
    Container: Box 1
  • Description: P171:002: Arlene Thompson
    Container: Box 1
  • Description: P171:003: Marjorie Miller
    Dates: 1948-1949
    Container: Box 1
  • Description: P171:004: Margery Holland
    Dates: 1956-1957
    Container: Box 1
  • Description: P171:005: Individual portrait of unidentified woman
    Container: Box 1
  • Description: P171:006: Virginia Moses
    Dates: 1950-1951
    Container: Box 1
  • Description: P171:007: Women students in dance studio/gym
    Container: Box 1
  • Description: P171:008: Five women on ladder in pool
    Container: Box 1
  • Description: P171:009: Two women playing croquet; photograph by Warren Welch
    Container: Box 1
  • Description: P171:010: Members of Women's Recreation Association, including officers; photograph by Warren Welch
    Container: Box 1
  • Description: P171:011: Woman at bat playing softball
    Container: Box 1
  • Description: P171:012: Batter, catcher and umpire at plate playing softball
    Container: Box 1
  • Description: P171:013: Nine women making a pyramid in the gym
    Container: Box 1
  • Description: P171:014: Two women playing pool
    Container: Box 1
  • Description: P171:015: Two women at a recital in gym
    Container: Box 1
  • Description: P171:016: Woman dancing
    Container: Box 1
  • Description: P171:017: Group of women dancing
    Container: Box 1
  • Description: P171:018: Women in Gill Coliseum
    Container: Box 1
  • Description: P171:019: Four women demonstrating a campsite
    Container: Box 1
  • Description: P171:020: Members of a softball team. "It was a good game, but we lost."
    Container: Box 1
  • Description: P171:021-P171:022: Playing volleyball
    Container: Box 1
  • Description: P171:023: Dance recital
    Container: Box 1
  • Description: P171:024: Playing softball
    Container: Box 1
  • Description: P171:025: Playing volleyball
    Container: Box 1
  • Description: P171:026: Two women playing jacks
    Container: Box 1
  • Description: P171:027: Five women at a banquet
    Container: Box 1
  • Description: P171:028-P171:030: Synchronized swimming
    Dates: May 1964
    Container: Box 1
  • Description: P171:031: Four women with bowling trophy
    Container: Box 1
  • Description: P171:032: Two women and an archery bull's-eye
    Container: Box 1
  • Description: P171:033-P171:034: Swimming
    Container: Box 1
  • Description: P171:035: Northwest Field Hockey Conference, University of British Columbia vs. Univ. of Washington
    Dates: Dec 1959
    Container: Box 1
  • Description: P171:036: Basketball tipoff
    Container: Box 1
  • Description: P171:037: Playing tetherball
    Container: Box 1
  • Description: P171:038: Playing softball
    Container: Box 1
  • Description: P171:039: WRA Council meeting
    Container: Box 1
  • Description: P171:040: Playing softball
    Container: Box 1
  • Description: P171:041: Woman dancing outside
    Container: Box 1
  • Description: P171:042: Warming up in a dance class
    Container: Box 1
  • Description: P171:043: Two men and two women working on canoes
    Container: Box 1
  • Description: P171:044: Interpretive dance
    Container: Box 1
  • Description: P171:045: Woman pulling back a bow and arrow in archery
    Container: Box 1
  • Description: P171:046: Group of people playing ping pong
    Container: Box 1
  • Description: P171:047: Seahorses; synchronized swimming
    Container: Box 1
  • Description: P171:048: Synchronized swim meet; first place, Karen Hogarth 64.40; second place, Wyn Gourley 64.30; third place, Karen Romstad 63.15
    Container: Box 1
  • Description: P171:049: Oregonians Review, two women in costumes on stage
    Container: Box 1
  • Description: P171:050: Above net view of three women playing volleyball
    Container: Box 1
  • Description: P171:051: Seven women at a party for WRA
    Container: Box 1
  • Description: P171:052: Five women of WRA
    Container: Box 1
  • Description: P171:053: Practicing tennis
    Container: Box 1
  • Description: P171:054: Three women sitting on a diving board
    Container: Box 1
  • Description: P171:055: Women's Building entrance
    Dates: circa 1955
    Container: Box 1
  • Description: P171:056: Five women, including one "coach," using canoes
    Container: Box 1
  • Description: P171:057: Closeup of two women tennis players meeting at the net
    Container: Box 1
  • Description: P171:058: Five women in Watershow (synchronized swimming)
    Dates: 1956
    Container: Box 1
  • Description: P171:059: Synchronized swimming
    Dates: May 1964
    Container: Box 1
  • Description: P171:060: Crew
    Container: Box 1
  • Description: P171:061: Seahorses; synchronized swimming
    Container: Box 1
  • Description: P171:062: Playing jacks
    Container: Box 1
  • Description: P171:063-P171:064: Playing shuffleboard
    Container: Box 1
  • Description: P171:065: Five women
    Container: Box 1
  • Description: P171:066: Shuffleboard
    Container: Box 1
  • Description: P171:067: Playing basketball
    Container: Box 1
  • Description: P171:068: Dance recital
    Container: Box 1
  • Description: P171:069: Playing marbles
    Container: Box 1
  • Description: P171:070-P171:074: Synchronized swimming (Seahorses); around the pool, in the water, in the locker room;
    Dates: May 1964
    Container: Box 1
  • Description: P171:075: New student week chairperson and committee
    Container: Box 1
  • Description: P171:076-P171:077: Synchronized swimming
    Dates: 1964
    Container: Box 1
  • Description: P171:078: Co-membership chairs
    Container: Box 1
  • Description: P171:079: Four members
    Container: Box 1
  • Description: P171:080-P171:083: Synchronized swimming (Seahorses); around the pool, in the water, in the locker room
    Dates: May 1964
    Container: Box 1
  • Description: P171:084: Crew
    Dates: Feb 1964
    Container: Box 1
  • Description: P171:085: Seahorses practicing synchronized swimming
    Dates: May 1964
    Container: Box 1
  • Description: P171:086: Synchronized swimming
    Dates: Feb 1964
    Container: Box 1
  • Description: P171:087: Group of women on steps in front of a house
    Container: Box 1
  • Description: P171:088: Woman and man in front of an archery bull's-eye
    Container: Box 1
  • Description: P171:089-P171:093: Individual portraits (unidentified)
    Container: Box 1
  • Description: P171:094: Close up of woman dancing
    Container: Box 1
  • Description: P171:095: Playing volleyball
    Container: Box 1
  • Description: P171:096: Woman drawing/doodling on an easel
    Container: Box 1
  • Description: P171:097: Close-up of woman dancing
    Container: Box 1
  • Description: P171:098: Woman and man in front of an archery bull's-eye
    Container: Box 1
  • Description: P171:099: Group of women in WRA office
    Container: Box 1
  • Description: P171:100-P171:101: Individual portraits (unidentified)
    Container: Box 1
  • Description: P171:102-P171:103: Playing tennis; color prints
    Container: Box 1
  • Description: P171:104: Four women with tennis trophies; color print
    Container: Box 1
  • Description: P171:105: Playing tennis; color print
    Container: Box 1
  • Description: P171:106: Cross country skiing
    Container: Box 1
  • Description: P171:107: Playing volleyball
    Container: Box 1
  • Description: P171:108: Playing tennis; color print
    Container: Box 1
  • Description: P171:109: Public relations committee and chairperson
    Container: Box 1
  • Description: P171:110: Health and Safety Chairperson standing next to a piano
    Container: Box 1
  • Description: P171:111: Playing basketball
    Container: Box 1
  • Description: P171:112-P171:115: Individual portraits (unidentified)
    Container: Box 1
  • Description: P171:116: Unidentified woman playing jacks
    Container: Box 1
  • Description: P171:117: Seahorses
    Container: Box 1
  • Description: P171:118: Small band playing while people dance
    Container: Box 1
  • Description: P171:119: Two women playing croquet
    Container: Box 1
  • Description: P171:120-P171:121: Two women riding horses
    Container: Box 1
  • Description: P171:122: Six women of WRA on steps of building
    Container: Box 1
  • Description: P171:123: Closeup of two women tennis players meeting at the net
    Container: Box 1
  • Description: P171:124-P171:125: Two women bowling
    Container: Box 1
  • Description: P171:126: Two women of the Seahorses performing acrobatic move on the diving board
    Container: Box 1
  • Description: P171:127: Seahorses in a line diving into the pool
    Container: Box 1
  • Description: P171:128: One woman spotting another as she uses the pommel horse
    Container: Box 1
  • Description: P171:129: Group of women bowling
    Container: Box 1
  • Description: P171:130: Woman on horseback
    Container: Box 1
  • Description: P171:131: Two women shaking hands at the tennis net, and view of the front of the Women's Building
    Container: Box 1
  • Description: P171:132: Two women of the Seahorses performing acrobatic move on the diving board
    Container: Box 1
  • Description: P171:133: Two women practicing tennis
    Container: Box 1
  • Description: P171:134: Canoeing on the Willamette
    Container: Box 1
  • Description: P171:135-P171:146: Contact sheet
    120 negatives

    no negatives included

    Container: Box 1
  • Description: P171:135: Canoeing
    Container: Box 1
  • Description: P171:136: Man and woman practicing archery
    Container: Box 1
  • Description: P171:137: Two women playing croquet
    Container: Box 1
  • Description: P171:138-P171:139: Canoeing
    Container: Box 1
  • Description: P171:140: Two women playing croquet
    Container: Box 1
  • Description: P171:141-P171:142: Canoeing
    Container: Box 1
  • Description: P171:143: Two women playing croquet
    Container: Box 1
  • Description: P171:144-P171:145: Canoeing
    Container: Box 1
  • Description: P171:146: Man and woman practicing archery
    Container: Box 1
  • Description: P171:147: Two women playing croquet
    Container: Box 1
  • Description: P171:148-P171:158: Contact sheet
    120 negatives

    no negatives included

    Container: Box 1
  • Description: P171:148-P171:154: Two women horseback riding
    Container: Box 1
  • Description: P171:155: Two women playing tennis
    Container: Box 1
  • Description: P171:156-P171:157: Two women horseback riding
    Container: Box 1
  • Description: P171:158: Two women playing tennis
    Container: Box 1
  • Description: P171:159: At a dance
    Container: Box 1

  • P171:160-P171:171: Postcards, circa 1910

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Subject Terms

  • College buildings--Oregon--Corvallis
  • College students--Oregon--Corvallis
  • College sports for women--Oregon--Corvallis
  • Intramural sports--Oregon--Corvallis
  • Student activities--Oregon--Corvallis
  • Women--Recreation--Oregon--Corvallis

Corporate Names

  • Oregon Agricultural College--Buildings

Form or Genre Terms

  • Photographic prints
  • Postcards

Finding aid prepared by Elizabeth Nielsen.
1994

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