MSS 7 Guide to the L.A. Robinson Collection 1892-1951 L.A. Robinson Collection Finding aid prepared by Erin Passehl Funding for encoding this finding aid was provided, in part, by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities. Funding for archival supplies made possible, in part, by a grant from the Polk County Cultural Coalition. Western Oregon University Archives © 2012

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MSS 7 Robinson, L. A. (Lewis Archibald) L.A. Robinson Collection 1892-1951 bulk 1904-1908 1.5 linear feet 5 boxes includes 190 glass slides Photographs, postcards, research notes, publications, personal materials, and educational glass slides belonging to Professor L.A. Robinson while working at Oregon State Normal School in Monmouth, Oregon. Collection materials are in English

Some glass slides are in fragile condition.

Biographical Note

Lewis Archibald Robinson was born on February 15, 1866, in Cedar Grove, Virginia, to Andrew A. Robinson and Virginia Fries. He completed his preparatory training as an instructor at the Shenandoah Institute in Dayton, Virginia, in 1885.

Robinson received both an A.B. in 1898 and an A.M. in 1901 from the University of Illinois. His masters thesis was titled “The Teaching of Secondary Mathematics with Special Reference to the High Schools of Illinois”. While he was in graduate school he taught math in a local high school and worked as an assistant in mathematics in the Preparatory School at the University of Illinois. Robinson left Illinois after graduation to teach physics and math at the State Agricultural College in Pullman Washington.

The following year, Robinson was appointed to a teaching position in physical science at Oregon State Normal School in Monmouth. Before moving, he asked his childhood friend, Anna (Annie Mae Gard), to accompany him to Oregon. Under the pretense that he had found her a teaching position, Anna went to Salem. On the day she arrived (September 15, 1902), they were married.

On June 24, 1904 their first and only child, Hazel Gard, was born. Robinson was Professor of Physics and Mathematics at Oregon State Normal School in Monmouth from 1903 to 1908. During the 1907-1908 school year, the Oregon Legislature failed to appropriate funds to the school and the faculty worked through the end of the school year without salary. When school let out Robinson moved to New York to begin further training at Columbia University, leaving his wife and daughter in Monmouth to take care of the house. In 1911 Robinson published research titled “Experimental Investigation of Mental Fatigue in School Children” from the New York University, School of Pedagogy.

Text adopted from, “Normal School Department,” Oregon Teachers Monthly: a Journal Devoted to the Educational Interests of the Northwest 13, no.1, (1908).

Collection is arranged topically and chronologically. Glass slides are described at the item-level.

All of the glass slides are scanned and are available internally for research.

Collection is available for research.

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L.A. Robinson Collection, MSS 7, Western Oregon University Archives

Collection reprocessed according to DACS standards in 2011.

The collection (outside of the glass slides) were donated by Nancy Brown (granddaughter of Robinson) to the library in 1995 in multiple accruals. The glass slides were acquired by Ellis Stebbins, executive secretary and school administrator, in 1928, and later donated to the library.

Geology and Physiology glass slides were separated as those used by L.A. Robinson from MSS 17, Oregon State Normal School Lantern Slides Collection.

Other materials related to L.A. Robinson and the physical science department at Oregon State Normal School can be found in University Archives.

This collection is indexed under the following headings in the online catalog. Researchers desiring materials about related topics, persons, or places should search the catalog using these headings.

Robinson, L. A. (Lewis Archibald)--Archives Oregon State Normal School Monmouth (Or.) Oregon State Normal School (Monmouth, Or.) Colleges and Universities Lantern slides Slides Photographs Postcards Teachers Professors Educators--United States I Personal Records 1973-1976

Series I includes class records, research notes, licenses, creative and scholarly publications and works, photographs, and copies of the university's yearbook, The Courier. This series is described at the folder level.

1 1 Family history

Includes short family history, one piece of correspondence regarding the Robinson home in Monmouth, and a school exam by Robinson's daughter, Annie, in 1906.

1 2 Licenses and certificates

Includes Robinson's business card, driver licenses, 1909 dues receipt for the Oregon State Academy of Science, and his teacher's license from Warren, Ohio, in 1892. Also includes a photocopy of a 1906 land deed (the original is in oversize).

1 3 Oregon State Normal School class records 1886-1909

Three handwritten sheets with student names, address, and years attended.

1 4 Research notes circa 1908

Handwritten notes on topics including the Rumford photometer, Law of Moments of Force, school administration, discipline, earth science, and the solar system.

1 5 Creative works

Includes a short story on horses from 1942, cartoon drawing of music professor at Washington State Agricultural College, and a set of drawings for a Christmas greeting booklet from 1903.

1 6 Publications 1911

"Mental Fatigue and School Efficiency", Bulletin of the Winthrop Normal and Industrial College of South Carolina.

1 7 Oregon State Normal School materials 1911 1906-1908

Three copies of the college yearbook, The Courier, reception invitation, and banquet program for the Inter Collegiate Oratorical Association of Oregon in 1908.

1 8 Photographs and postcards 1900-1908

Images of L.A. Robinson, his family, city of Monmouth, and the Independence-Monmouth Railroad train.

II Geology and Physiology Glass Slides 1911-1921

Series II includes approximately 190 glass slides on the subjects of geology and physiology that L.A. Robinson used to teach students in his classroom. The slides are described at the item-level. The slides includes images of the western United States, but includes images from around the United States and the world. The physiology slides are further divided by continent and geographic location.

Geology LS2010.019.001 2 1 Woman in field of dirt LS2010.019.002 2 2 Calcite in the form of dog-tooth spar LS2010.019.003 2 3 Large pile of rocks LS2010.019.004 2 4 Lava Cast LS2010.019.005 2 5 Rocks and evergreen trees LS2010.019.006 2 6 Rock pile with guy standing on top LS2010.019.007 2 7 Stalactites LS2010.019.008 2 8 Stone Flower: Colombia LS2010.019.009 2 9 A man sitting next to a petrified log LS2010.019.010 2 10 Man next to large boulder with horizontal stratification LS2010.019.011 2 11 Rock Quarry LS2010.019.012 2 12 Cliffs and sparse covering of evergreen trees LS2010.019.013 2 13 Rock on Mount Saint Helens LS2010.019.014 2 14 Arch Cado LS2010.019.015 2 15 Rock with Shell imprint LS2010.019.016 2 16 Geode LS2010.019.017 2 17 unidentified LS2010.019.018 2 18 Green, Blue, and Red Crystals LS2010.019.019 2 19 unidentified crystals LS2010.019.020 2 20 Rocks, trees, and railroad tracks LS2010.019.021 2 21 Cliff with horizontal strata LS2010.019.022 2 22 Mountain covered in shale LS2010.019.023 2 23 Unidentified bone LS2010.019.024 2 24 Cliffs and evergreen trees LS2010.019.025 2 25 Fossil LS2010.019.026 2 26 Rock shaving in cardboard case Physiography Asia LS2010.018.091 2 27 The Himalayas Canada LS2010.023.002 2 28 Map of Canadian West coast including Alaska France LS2010.018.021 2 29 Tidal Bore, Seine River Greece LS2006.230.051 2 30 Excavations at work - Athens Greenland LS2010.018.014 2 31 Large Iceberg, West Coast of Greenland LS2010.018.045 2 32 Iceberg Mc Cormick Bay, Greenland Indonesia LS2010.018.010 2 33 Krakatoa After Eruption, Straits of Sunday, Indonesia Italy LS2006.230.053 2 34 Starting for Blue Grotto, Marine, Italian, Sorrento Japan LS2010.018.072 2 35 Sicily - Craters on Mt. Etna LS2010.018.044 2 36 Fujiyama - Japan Mediterranean LS2006.231.054 2 37 Gibraltar - Mediterranean Mexico LS2010.018.038 2 38 Popocatepetl - Mexico Norway LS2010.018.022 2 39 Stream Issuing from Foot of Glacier Buar-Brae, Norway LS2010.018.024 2 40 Midnight Sun Coast, Norway LS2010.018.025 2 41 Norway - Hammerfest- Harbor, Norway LS2010.018.026 2 42 North Cape, Norway LS2010.018.027 2 43 Fjord closed by Talus, Norway Philippines LS2010.018.058 2 44 Active Volcano, Philippines South America LS2010.018.069 2 45 Coast of Patagonia, South America LS2010.018.071 2 46 Chimborazo, South America United States LS2010.018.068 2 47 Islands, Coast of Alaska LS2010.018.083 2 48 Alaska - Muir Glacier LS2010.018.084 2 49 Crevasse in Muir Glacier - Alaska LS2010.018.087 2 50 Timber Line White Pass Alaska LS2010.018.035 2 51 Appalachian, System LS2010.018.082 2 52 Arizona Limestone Sink LS2010.018.076 2 53 California: Trolley Tracks after Earthquake in San Francisco 1906 LS2010.018.077 2 54 California: Map of San Francisco Earthquake of 1906 1906 LS2010.018.078 2 55 California: Main Fault and Divergence Cracks, California Earthquake 1906 LS2010.018.079 2 56 California: Fence Offset, California Earthquake 1906 LS2007.233.063 3 1 California: Torrey Pines LS2007.233.064 3 2 California: Lake Tahoe LS2007.233.057 3 3 California: Mission Play LS2007.233.060 3 4 California: San Gabriel Mission LS2007.233.061 3 5 California: San Juan Capistrano Mission LS2007.233.062 3 6 California: Mission Play LS2007.233.065 3 7 California: Santa Barbara Mission LS2007.233.066 3 8 California: Mission Play LS2007.233.067 3 9 California: Map Showing the Location of the Missions LS2007.233.068 3 10 California: Mission Play LS2010.015.044 3 11 California: 4 Mission Play LS2010.015.045 3 12 California: 2 Mission Play LS2010.018.064 3 13 California: Mt. Shasta LS2010.018.086 3 14 California: Timberline and Mt. Shasta LS2010.018.043 3 15 California: Santa Catalina Island LS2010.018.028 3 16 California: El Capitan - Yosemite LS2010.018.029 3 17 Cathedral Spires, Yosemite LS2010.018.030 3 18 California: Yosemite LS2010.018.031 3 19 California: Bridal Veil - Yosemite LS2010.018.032 3 20 California: Vermal Falls, Yosemite LS2010.018.041 3 21 California: Three Brothers, Yosemite LS2010.018.023 3 22 Colorado: Pike's Peak LS2010.018.042 3 23 Colorado: Garden of the Gods LS2010.018.066 3 24 Colorado: Marshall Pass LS2010.018.037 3 25 Glacier: Glacier Selkirk Mountains LS2010.018.085 3 26 Glacier: Crevasse in Selkirk Glacier LS2010.018.002 3 27 Hawaii: Crater of Kilauea LS2010.018.070 3 28 Hawaii: Lava Flow LS2010.018.089 3 29 Hawaii: Mauna Loa LS2010.018.081 3 30 Kentucky: Mammoth Cave LS2010.023.005 3 31 Nevada: Nevada Falls LS2010.018.036 3 32 New Jersey: Coastal Plain LS2010.018.061 3 33 New Jersey: Myrtle Beach LS2010.018.067 3 34 New Jersey: Palisades of Hudson LS2010.018.090 3 35 New York: Jointed Strait Adirondack Mountains LS2010.018.004 3 36 New York: Bird's Eye View Panorama of Niagara Falls and Gorge LS2010.018.005 3 37 New York: Gilbert's Diagrammatic Map of Niagara Falls Naming All Features LS2010.018.039 3 38 New York: Niagara Falls LS2010.018.040 3 39 New York: Rapids of Niagara River LS2010.018.006 3 40 New York: Looking from Devil's Oven, Thousand Islands. St. Lawrence River LS2010.018.033 3 41 New York: Horizontal Strata, Peterskill Falls LS2010.018.046 3 42 New York: Horizontal Strait, Watkins's Glen LS2010.018.060 3 43 New York: Horizontal Strata, Verkeerder kill Falls LS2010.022.001 4 1 Oregon LS2010.022.002 4 2 Oregon: waterfall LS2010.022.003 4 3 Oregon: river LS2010.022.004 4 4 Oregon: Crater Lake LS2010.022.005 4 5 Oregon: Cows Grazing by River LS2010.022.006 4 6 Oregon: Logging camp LS2010.022.007 4 7 Oregon: Flock of Sheep LS2010.022.008 4 8 Oregon: coast LS2010.022.009 4 9 Oregon: Boats at Sea LS2010.022.010 4 10 Oregon: waterfall LS2010.022.011 4 11 Oregon: Log Cabin Lodge LS2010.022.012 4 12 Oregon: River Running through Canyon LS2010.022.013 4 13 Oregon: lake LS2010.022.014 4 14 Oregon: lake LS2010.022.015 4 15 Oregon: waterfall LS2010.022.016 4 16 Oregon: Sea lions at coast LS2010.022.017 4 17 Oregon: Harvesting team LS2010.022.018 4 18 Oregon: river LS2010.022.019 4 19 Oregon: Canoe on Ocean LS2010.022.020 4 20 Oregon: River seen through trees LS2010.022.021 4 21 Oregon: forest and waterfall LS2010.022.022 4 22 Oregon: Covered bridge over river LS2010.022.023 4 23 Oregon: Country home with picket fence LS2010.022.024 4 24 Oregon: Mountains and railroad tracks LS2010.022.025 4 25 Oregon: lake LS2010.022.026 4 26 Oregon: Ocean with view of coast line LS2010.022.027 4 27 Oregon: waterfall in forest LS2010.022.028 4 28 Oregon: Suburb LS2010.022.029 4 29 Oregon: House on river bank LS2010.022.030 4 30 Oregon: Logging contraption LS2010.022.031 4 31 Oregon: Fish house LS2010.022.032 4 32 Oregon: Valley with mountains in background LS2010.022.033 4 33 Oregon: Loggers next to giant evergreen LS2010.022.034 4 34 Oregon: Log sliding into lake LS2010.022.035 4 35 Oregon: Logging camp LS2010.022.036 4 36 Oregon: Crater of Oblong Geyser LS2010.022.037 4 37 Oregon: Factory LS2010.022.038 4 38 Oregon: Fishermen with families LS2010.022.039 4 39 Oregon: Horse drawn carriage Camp Sherman LS2010.022.040 4 40 Oregon: Trillium lake LS2010.022.041 4 41 Oregon: Coastal railroad tracks LS2010.022.042 4 42 Oregon: Snow covered mountains LS2010.022.043 4 43 Oregon: waterfall LS2010.022.044 4 44 Oregon: mountains LS2010.022.045 4 45 Oregon: cliff and water source LS2010.022.046 4 46 Oregon: logging production LS2010.022.047 4 47 Oregon: Waterfall into cavern LS2010.022.048 4 48 Oregon: Log cabin J. F. Ford LS2010.022.049 4 49 Oregon: Horses plowing field LS2010.022.050 4 50 Oregon: river LS2010.022.051 4 51 Oregon: Girls in Ocean LS2010.022.052 4 52 Oregon: river rapids LS2010.022.053 4 53 Oregon: Lighthouse LS2010.022.054 4 54 Oregon: View of Mt. St. Helens and Mt. Rainier from Portland LS2010.018.062 5 1 Pennsylvania: Limestone Quarry Chester County LS2010.018.063 5 2 Pennsylvania: Thumb Rock, Mt. Shasta LS2010.018.065 5 3 South Dakota: Badlands LS2010.018.019 5 4 Virginia: View in Dismal Swamp LS2010.018.020 5 5 Virginia: Cypress Trees in lake Drummond, Sidmal Swamp LS2010.018.034 5 6 Virginia: Natural Bridge LS2010.018.048 5 7 Virginia: Luray Cavern, Ball Room LS2010.018.049 5 8 Virginia: Stalactites, Luray Cavern LS2010.023.006 5 9 Washington, D.C.: U.S. Capitol LS2010.018.073 5 10 Sulfur Deposits Yellowstone LS2010.018.012 5 11 Yellowstone National Park: Punch Bowl LS2010.018.013 5 12 Yellowstone National Park: Mortar Geyser in Eruption LS2010.018.047 5 13 Yellowstone National Park: Old Faithful Geyser West Indies LS2010.018.075 5 14 Faulted Strata West Indies Charts/Graphs LS2010.018.050 5 15 Solar System LS2010.018.059 5 16 Perihelion and Aphelion LS2010.018.088 5 17 Relative Size of Sun and Planets LS2010.018.001 5 18 December 24-27, 1904 8:00 a.m. LS2010.018.003 5 19 Forecast Districts LS2010.018.007 5 20 Isotherms: January LS2010.018.008 5 21 Mean Annual Temperature LS2010.018.009 5 22 Isobars: January LS2010.018.011 5 23 Rainfall LS2010.018.015 5 24 Annual Storm Tracks and Frequency LS2010.018.016 5 25 Mean Tracks and Average Daily Movement of Storms in the U.S. LS2010.018.017 5 26 February 2-5, 1903 8:00 a.m. LS2010.018.018 5 27 Distribution of Tornados LS2010.018.051 5 28 Change of Seasons LS2010.018.074 5 29 Forest Destroyed by Geyser LS2010.018.080 5 30 Meandering River LS2010.023.004 5 31 [Unidentified ocean view] LS2010.018.052 5 32 North America relief map LS2010.018.053 5 33 South America relief map LS2010.018.054 5 34 Europe relief map LS2010.018.055 5 35 Asia relief map LS2010.018.056 5 36 Africa relief map LS2010.018.057 5 37 Australia relief map