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P171
Women's Recreation Association (Oregon State
University)
Women's Recreation
Association (WRA) Photographic Collection
1910-1965
1955-1965
0.1 cubic foot, including 150
photographs
1 box
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.
Materials inEnglish.
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.
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.
All of the images have been assigned individual item numbers
(P171:1-P171:171).
Collection is open for research.
Women's Recreation Association (WRA) Photographic Collection (P 171),
Oregon State University Archives, Corvallis, Oregon.
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).
Oregon
Agricultural College--Buildings
College
buildings--Oregon--Corvallis
College sports for
women--Oregon--Corvallis
College
students--Oregon--Corvallis
Intramural
sports--Oregon--Corvallis
Student
activities--Oregon--Corvallis
Women--Recreation--Oregon--Corvallis
Photographic
prints
Postcards
Colleges and Universities
Sports and Recreation
Student Life
Women
Corvallis
Photographs
P171:001
1
Carolyn Laughlin
1958-1959
P171:002
1
Arlene Thompson
P171:003
1
Marjorie Miller
1948-1949
P171:004
1
Margery Holland
1956-1957
P171:005
1
Individual portrait of
unidentified woman
P171:006
1
Virginia Moses
1950-1951
P171:007
1
Women students in dance
studio/gym
P171:008
1
Five women on ladder in
pool
P171:009
1
Two women playing croquet;
photograph by Warren Welch
P171:010
1
Members of Women's Recreation
Association, including officers; photograph by Warren Welch
P171:011
1
Woman at bat playing
softball
P171:012
1
Batter, catcher and umpire at
plate playing softball
P171:013
1
Nine women making a pyramid in
the gym
P171:014
1
Two women playing
pool
P171:015
1
Two women at a recital in
gym
P171:016
1
Woman dancing
P171:017
1
Group of women
dancing
P171:018
1
Women in Gill
Coliseum
P171:019
1
Four women demonstrating a
campsite
P171:020
1
Members of a softball team. "It
was a good game, but we lost."
P171:021-P171:022
1
Playing volleyball
P171:023
1
Dance recital
P171:024
1
Playing softball
P171:025
1
Playing volleyball
P171:026
1
Two women playing
jacks
P171:027
1
Five women at a
banquet
P171:028-P171:030
1
Synchronized swimming
May 1964
P171:031
1
Four women with bowling
trophy
P171:032
1
Two women and an archery
bull's-eye
P171:033-P171:034
1
Swimming
P171:035
1
Northwest Field Hockey
Conference, University of British Columbia vs. Univ. of Washington
Dec 1959
P171:036
1
Basketball tipoff
P171:037
1
Playing tetherball
P171:038
1
Playing softball
P171:039
1
WRA Council meeting
P171:040
1
Playing softball
P171:041
1
Woman dancing outside
P171:042
1
Warming up in a dance
class
P171:043
1
Two men and two women working on
canoes
P171:044
1
Interpretive dance
P171:045
1
Woman pulling back a bow and
arrow in archery
P171:046
1
Group of people playing ping
pong
P171:047
1
Seahorses; synchronized
swimming
P171:048
1
Synchronized swim meet; first
place, Karen Hogarth 64.40; second place, Wyn Gourley 64.30; third place, Karen
Romstad 63.15
P171:049
1
Oregonians Review, two women in
costumes on stage
P171:050
1
Above net view of three women
playing volleyball
P171:051
1
Seven women at a party for
WRA
P171:052
1
Five women of WRA
P171:053
1
Practicing tennis
P171:054
1
Three women sitting on a diving
board
P171:055
1
Women's Building
entrance
circa
1955
P171:056
1
Five women, including one
"coach," using canoes
P171:057
1
Closeup of two women tennis
players meeting at the net
P171:058
1
Five women in Watershow
(synchronized swimming)
1956
P171:059
1
Synchronized swimming
May 1964
P171:060
1
Crew
P171:061
1
Seahorses; synchronized
swimming
P171:062
1
Playing jacks
P171:063-P171:064
1
Playing shuffleboard
P171:065
1
Five women
P171:066
1
Shuffleboard
P171:067
1
Playing basketball
P171:068
1
Dance recital
P171:069
1
Playing marbles
P171:070-P171:074
1
Synchronized swimming
(Seahorses); around the pool, in the water, in the locker room;
May 1964
P171:075
1
New student week chairperson and
committee
P171:076-P171:077
1
Synchronized swimming
1964
P171:078
1
Co-membership chairs
P171:079
1
Four members
P171:080-P171:083
1
Synchronized swimming
(Seahorses); around the pool, in the water, in the locker room
May 1964
P171:084
1
Crew
Feb 1964
P171:085
1
Seahorses practicing synchronized
swimming
May 1964
P171:086
1
Synchronized swimming
Feb 1964
P171:087
1
Group of women on steps in front
of a house
P171:088
1
Woman and man in front of an
archery bull's-eye
P171:089-P171:093
1
Individual portraits
(unidentified)
P171:094
1
Close up of woman
dancing
P171:095
1
Playing volleyball
P171:096
1
Woman drawing/doodling on an
easel
P171:097
1
Close-up of woman
dancing
P171:098
1
Woman and man in front of an
archery bull's-eye
P171:099
1
Group of women in WRA
office
P171:100-P171:101
1
Individual portraits
(unidentified)
P171:102-P171:103
1
Playing tennis; color
prints
P171:104
1
Four women with tennis trophies;
color print
P171:105
1
Playing tennis; color
print
P171:106
1
Cross country skiing
P171:107
1
Playing volleyball
P171:108
1
Playing tennis; color
print
P171:109
1
Public relations committee and
chairperson
P171:110
1
Health and Safety Chairperson
standing next to a piano
P171:111
1
Playing basketball
P171:112-P171:115
1
Individual portraits
(unidentified)
P171:116
1
Unidentified woman playing
jacks
P171:117
1
Seahorses
P171:118
1
Small band playing while people
dance
P171:119
1
Two women playing
croquet
P171:120-P171:121
1
Two women riding
horses
P171:122
1
Six women of WRA on steps of
building
P171:123
1
Closeup of two women tennis
players meeting at the net
P171:124-P171:125
1
Two women bowling
P171:126
1
Two women of the Seahorses
performing acrobatic move on the diving board
P171:127
1
Seahorses in a line diving into
the pool
P171:128
1
One woman spotting another as she
uses the pommel horse
P171:129
1
Group of women
bowling
P171:130
1
Woman on horseback
P171:131
1
Two women shaking hands at the
tennis net, and view of the front of the Women's Building
P171:132
1
Two women of the Seahorses
performing acrobatic move on the diving board
P171:133
1
Two women practicing
tennis
P171:134
1
Canoeing on the
Willamette
P171:135-P171:146
1
Contact sheet
120
negatives
no negatives included
P171:135
1
Canoeing
P171:136
1
Man and woman practicing
archery
P171:137
1
Two women playing
croquet
P171:138-P171:139
1
Canoeing
P171:140
1
Two women playing
croquet
P171:141-P171:142
1
Canoeing
P171:143
1
Two women playing
croquet
P171:144-P171:145
1
Canoeing
P171:146
1
Man and woman practicing
archery
P171:147
1
Two women playing
croquet
P171:148-P171:158
1
Contact sheet
120
negatives
no negatives included
P171:148-P171:154
1
Two women horseback
riding
P171:155
1
Two women playing
tennis
P171:156-P171:157
1
Two women horseback
riding
P171:158
1
Two women playing
tennis
P171:159
1
At a dance
P171:160-P171:171
Postcards
circa
1910
P171:160
1
Apperson Hall
P171:161
1
Lower Campus and class-seat,
with Benton Hall in background; color
P171:162-P171:164
1
Education Hall
P171:164 is color.
P171:165
1
Benton County Courthouse,
Corvallis, Oregon
color
P171:166
1
Methodist Episcopal Church,
Corvallis, Oregon
color
P171:167
1
Apperson Hall
color
P171:168
1
Cauthorn Hall (now Fairbanks
Hall)
color
P171:169
1
Administration Building (now
Benton Hall)
color
P171:170
1
Waldo Hall
P171:171
1
Corvallis, Oregon, Business
Street; 2nd Street looking north from about Jefferson Street