Washington State University Photographs, Subject File, 1892-1999

This collection of assorted images depicting the history of the State College of Washington (later Washington State University) covers a wide range of subjects, including photographs of buildings on campus, students, faculty, University regents, and campus visitors.

The positive and negative images in this collection were arranged into two separate series; however, it should be made clear that images in the two series do not necessarily overlap - the majority of the negatives and not present as positives, and vice versa. The sub-division of the subjects can be quite extensive. For example, Athletics is arranged alphabetically by individual sports and each sport is subdivided chronologically. If one were looking for a photograph of the 1945 Basketball team, one would first look under Athletics, then Basketball, then 1945. One should check the positives first, then the negatives. During initial processing, a series of "sports contact sheet prints," covering primarily the 1940s and 1950s, was retained as a separate subseries (1.1.05) within sports positives. So, someone looking for sports images in this era should check this subseries as well. Regents and Faculty members have been arranged into subdivisions alphabetically by name.

The collection continues to grow as loose single images are added and interfiled over time.