OREp160.xmlo Guide to the Ina Rihani Photographs 1977 Rihani (Ina) Photographs Finding aid prepared by Ryan Atwood and Elizabeth Nielsen. Oregon State University Libraries, Special Collections & Archives Research Center 2015
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Finding aid encoded by Ryan Atwood. 2015 Finding aid written in English. Finding aid based on DACS ( Describing Archives: A Content Standard 2nd Edition). Oregon State University Libraries, Special Collections & Archives Research Center
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P 160 Rihani, Ina Lee. Ina Rihani Photographs 1977 0.01 cubic foot, including 61 photographs 1 box The Ina Rihani Photographs consist of snapshots of Monroe, Oregon, taken or assembled by Rihani. Rihani enrolled at Oregon State University in the 1970s; she earned a B.A. in Sociology in 1975 and a M.A. in Interdisciplinary Studies in 1982. Materials in English. Biographical Note:

Ina Lee Rihani, born Ina Lee Hand, enrolled at Oregon State University in the early 1970s and earned a B.A. in Sociology in 1975. Rihani became a clerical assistant in the Archives at Oregon State University in September 1975. She held this position for about 15 months, until early January 1977, when she resigned to enroll as a full-time graduate student at Oregon State. She completed her M.A. in Interdisciplinary Studies in 1982.

Ina Lee Hand married Sarmad Rihani on July 12, 1975. The Rihanis' first son, Cedar Samard Rihani, was born on November 11, 1977.

The Ina Rihani Photographs consist of snapshots of Monroe, Oregon, taken or assembled by Rihani. Monroe is a small city (population 617 in 2010 census) in south Benton County, Oregon. The photographs depict businesses, schools, parks, historic features, and homes in and near Monroe. The collection also includes a photograph of Rihani's son, Cedar Sarmad Rihani.

The collection includes both color prints and 126 film color negatives.

Collection is open for research.

This collection is arranged in one series: I. Photographs, 1977.

Ina Rihani Photographs (P 160), Oregon State University Special Collections & Archives Research Center, Corvallis, Oregon.

The photographs were received by the University Archives in the 1970s or 1980s.

Photographs of the Oregon Apple Company Orchards near Monroe are available in the Corvallis, Oregon, Photograph Collection (P 051). Maps of Monroe are included in the Sanborn Fire Insurance Maps of Oregon (MAPS Sanborn).

Monroe (Or.) Film negatives. Photographic prints. Oregon City and Town Life Photographs Series I Photographs 1977

Series I consists primarily of snapshots of Monroe, Oregon. The descriptions in quotation marks are annotations on the phoographs, presumably made by the photographer.

 P160:01 1 Entering Monroe traveling south P160:02 1 Old Monroe Flour Mill on 99W P160:03 1 View of Monroe from across the Long Tom River P160:04 1 Abandoned building on Commercial St.

"Notice water tanks on the hill."

 P160:05 1 Water storage for Monroe

"The large one contains water from the Long Tom River and the small one from a spring."

 P160:06 1 View of town from the water tanks

"Grade School is at the far right."

 P160:07 1 Monroe High School

"200 students"

 P160:08 1 New basketball courts at high school P160:09 1 Children fishing along the Long Tom River on a rainy Sunday P160:10 1 Monroe Clay Products Co. P160:11 1 Barber shop

"Picturesque old barber shop on 99W; one old swivel chair to accommodate you."

 P160:12 1 McCallums gun shop on 99W

"World's largest collection of Winchester rifles."

 P160:13 1 Southern Pacific Line comes in and stops at Monroe P160:14 1 Railroad track and Ortho fertilizer factory P160:15 1 End of the tracks and brick American Legion Hall P160:16 1 Monroe Fire Department P160:17 1 Monroe Library

"Open 10 hours a week; located in the Fire Department building."

 P160:18 1 Old Wilhelm Mansion

"Still stands. Wilhelm built and owned the one nationally famous Monroe flour mill."

 P160:19 1 New Apartments P160:20 1 Christmas Tree Farms P160:21-P160:22 1 Housing

"Poor areas along 99 W."

 P160:23 1 Monroe Pioneer Cemetery P160:24 1 99W through Monroe traveling north P160:25 1 Monroe's 16-acre City Park near the Long Tom River P160:26 1 Southern entrance to Monroe

"Park is to the right on 99W."

 P160:27 1 Cedar Sarmad Rihani 1977

"Cedar 2 days old visiting my hospital room ..."

 1 Monroe, Oregon 34 126 film color negatives

These include camera negatives for items P160:01 through P160:26 as well as additional views of Monroe for which prints are not part of this collection.