Alumnus Arthur Livingston (Art) Lowe of Corvallis attended Oregon State Agricultural College in the early to mid-1930s and graduated in 1936 with a bachelor's degree in secretarial science. He was Business Manager of the Corvallis Gazette-Times for many years.
The Art Lowe Photograph Collection consists of photographic prints collected by Arthur Lowe. It includes images of Oregon State College faculty and students; campus buildings; student activities and athletics; and Oregon agriculture. Of especial note are a panoramic photograph (3.5 x 11.75 in) taken in about 1915 of the Dairy Building (now Social Science), Alpha Hall, Shepard Hall, and the Mines Building (now Batcheller Hall); a 1903 portrait photograph of Claude Buchanan in his Oregon Agricultural College cadet uniform taken by Gardner; and images of Knute Rockne, the Horticultural Show, Bexell Hall soon after construction, and construction (or demolition) of the Bell Field grandstand.
Many of the images were taken by Hise Studio of Corvallis, Oregon.
Collection is open for research.
Art Lowe Photograph Collection (P 213), Oregon State University Archives, Corvallis, Oregon.
These materials were given to J. Kenneth Munford who donated them to the OSU Archives in 1995.
Photographs collected by Lowe pertaining to Corvallis and Benton County were donated to the Benton County Historical Museum in Philomath, Oregon.