By Elizabeth Nielsen
Title: Illustrated Booklets, 1911-1930
ID: PUB 488
Primary Creator: Oregon Agricultural College
Extent: 0.85 cubic feet. More info below.
Arrangement: The Illustrated Booklets are arranged in 3 series: 1. Unbound Items, 1911-1930; 2. Bound Volumes, 1911-1929; and 3. Correspondence, 1925.
Languages of Materials: English [eng]
The Illustrated Booklets were published by Oregon Agricultural College during the 1910s and 1920s to promote and publicize the College to potential students and Oregon residents. The booklets include numerous photographs of the campus in Corvallis as well as students in laboratories and classrooms and participating in student activities. Edwin T. Reed edited and wrote many of the booklets.
Items from this collection have been digitized and are available in Oregon Digital.
The Illustrated Booklets were published by Oregon Agricultural College (OAC) during the 1910s and 1920s to promote and publicize the College to potential students and Oregon residents and provide vocational guidance to youth and young adults. In addition to general information about academic and research programs of the College, booklets focused on agriculture, engineering, music, science, landscape architecture, business, and home economics were produced. Several booklets promote opportunities for women at OAC. Two booklets published during World War I highlight military training and the roles of OAC students and faculty in the war. One booklet describes campus buildings and facilities as of 1922 and another is dedicated solely to the newly completed Memorial Union.
Edwin T. Reed edited and wrote many of the booklets. The booklets include numerous photographs and graphical elements. The photographs depict campus buildings and scenes, students in classrooms and laboratories, and student activities. The first bulletin was described as “elegant … handsomely illustrated … [and] beautifully printed”. One review of the 1911 bulletin stated, “Every home in Grant County should have a copy.”
Individual copies of most of the bulletins are part of this collection; the bound volumes that comprise Series 2 include two additional bulletins. Limited correspondence from the College Editor soliciting content for the 1926 booklet on the theme of science; production information for one of the booklets; and news clippings about the first booklet, published in 1911, are also part of this collection.
Items from this collection have been digitized and are available in Oregon Digital.
More Extent Information: 3 boxes
Statement on Access: Collection is open for research.
Acquisition Note: These publications were received by the University Archives begiinning in the 1960s as part of the College Bulletins; they were segregated to form this separate collection in 2017.
Related Materials: The Special Collections and Archives Research Center has extensive collections of publications and related materials promoting Oregon State University’s academic and research programs and outreach to the state of Oregon and beyond; the Memorabilia Collection (MSS MC) includes a wide variety of promotional materials. The bulk of the college bulletins from this time period are described as the College Bulletins (PUB 005-11a). The Office of University Publications and OSU Press Records (RG 018) and the Edwin T. Reed Papers (MSS Reed) provide information about the publishing at Oregon State. Many of the photographs published in the Illustrated Booklets are available in photographic collections held by the Special Collections and Archives Research Center, especially Harriet's Photograph Collection (P HC).
Preferred Citation: Illustrated Booklets (PUB 488), Special Collections and Archives Research Center, Oregon State University, Corvallis, Oregon.
Oregon Agricultural College
Bexell, J. A. (John Andrew) (1867-1938)
Oregon State Agricultural College
Oregon State College.
Peck, Arthur L.
Reed, Edwin Thomas (1872-1948)
Rodenwold, Zelta Feike (1895-1987)
Agriculture--Study and teaching (Higher)--Oregon--Corvallis.
Business education--Oregon--Corvallis.
College buildings--Oregon--Corvallis.
College publications--Oregon.
College publicity--Oregon--Corvallis.
Engineering schools--Oregon--Corvallis.
Home economics--Study and teaching (Higher)--Oregon--Corvallis.
Landscape architecture--Study and teaching--Oregon.
Military education--Oregon--Corvallis.
Music in universities and colleges--Oregon--Corvallis.
Oregon Agricultural College
Oregon State Agricultural College
Oregon State College
Science--Study and teaching (Higher)--Oregon--Corvallis.
University History
Vocational guidance--Oregon.
Women--Education (Higher)--Oregon--Corvallis.
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