Walter R. Baker Photographs, circa 1863 - circa 1930

Predominant Dates: 1903-1910

The Walter R. Baker Photographs consists of images taken or collected by Baker during and soon after his student years at Oregon Agricultural College (OAC). The collection includes images of campus buildings and students as well photographs of buildings in and near Salem, Oregon, and of the Portland, Oregon, waterfront. Baker attended OAC from 1904 to 1909; he earned a BS in Electrical Engineering in 1908 and completed graduate work in 1909 leading to designation as an Electrical Engineer.

Images from this collection have been digitized and are available in Oregon Digital.

Creators

ID: P 018

Extent: 1.5 cubic feet

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Scope and Content Notes

Biographical / Historical Notes

Statement on Access: Collection is open for research.

Arrangement

Preferred Citation: Walter R. Baker Photographs (P 018), Oregon State University Special Collections and Archives, Corvallis, Oregon.

Acquisition Note: The collection was received by the Archives in the 1960s.

Languages of Materials

English

Other

Container List

Series 1: Photographs, circa 1863 - circa 1930 Add to Shelf

Series I consists of photographs taken or assembled by Baker that depict Oregon Agricultural College campus scenes, buildings, and students; buildings in and near Salem, Oregon; the Portland, Oregon, waterfront; and family members and friends. The images include mounted prints as well as glass and nitrate negatives.

Sub-Series 1: Prints Add to Shelf

Box-Folder 1.1: P018:004 - P018:010 Add to Shelf

Item P018:004: Military cadets in formation near Benton Hall Add to Shelf
Item P018:005: Cauthorn Hall, October 1907 Add to Shelf: Extent: 3 prints
Item P018:006: Cauthorn Hall, January 1906 Add to Shelf: Extent: print
Item P018:007: Cadets in room 68, Cauthorn Hall Add to Shelf: Extent: 4 prints
Item P018:008: Cauthorn Hall students; Whitehead, November 1907 Add to Shelf: Extent: 1 print
Item P018:010: Cauthorn Hall residents on steps; Whitehead Add to Shelf: Extent: 1 print

Box-Folder 1.2: P018:011 - P018:027 Add to Shelf

Item P018:011: Alexander Kesterton Chapman and James Hugh McCall in their room in Cauthorn Hall, February 11, 1906 Add to Shelf: Extent: 2 prints
Item P018:012: Hudson in his room, Cauthorn Hall, 1908 Add to Shelf: Extent: 3 prints
Item P018:013: Pennants in Hudson's room, Cauthorn Hall, 1908 Add to Shelf: Extent: 2 prints
Item P018:014: Cauthorn Hall students, November 1907 Add to Shelf: Similar to P018:008.; Extent: 1 print
Item P018:015: Cauthorn Hall, May 14, 1905 Add to Shelf: Extent: 3 prints
Item P018:017: Mechanical Hall, January 1906 Add to Shelf
Item P018:018: Mechanical Hall, 1906 Add to Shelf: Extent: 1 print
Item P018:019: Mechanical Hall, May 27, 1906 Add to Shelf: Extent: 2 prints
Item P018:023: Leach and Yeager in their dormitory room, February 25, 1906 Add to Shelf: Extent: 3 prints
Item P018:024: Women in front of Alpha Hall; "Rambler-Bicycle Hospital" on bicycle rack Add to Shelf: Extent: 1 print
Item P018:027: Private Chemistry Laboratory Add to Shelf: Chemical bottles in dormitory room.; Extent: 4 prints

Box-Folder 1.3: P018:028 - P018:041 Add to Shelf

Item P018:028: Octagonal (College) Barn, February 9, 1906 Add to Shelf: Extent: 1 print
Item P018:029: Alpha Hall and sidewalks, late spring Add to Shelf: Extent: 4 prints
Item P018:030: George Sauervin, OAC sub-freshman, at entrance to Education Hall, circa November 1907 Add to Shelf: Extent: 1 print
Item P018:031: Mining Building, April 7, 1906 Add to Shelf: Benton Annex (Women's Center Building).; Extent: 1 print
Item P018:032: Marie Hutchins, circa December 1903 Add to Shelf: Extent: 1 print
Item P018:033 - P018:034: Agriculture Hall Add to Shelf
Item P018:035: Lower Campus looking up path to Benton Hall Add to Shelf
Item P018:036: Waldo Hall Thanksgiving Dinner, 1907 Add to Shelf: Extent: 3 prints
Item P018:037a: W.H. Baker's tombstone, circa 1908 Add to Shelf: Extent: 6 prints
Item P018:037b: Homer's grave Add to Shelf
Item P018:038: Shield's tombstone Add to Shelf
Item P018:039a: Mary's Peak Add to Shelf: Very similar to the view used in the 1909 Orange (after class photos).
Item P018:039b: Mary's Peak Add to Shelf
Item P018:040: Jump-Off Joe, beach at Newport Add to Shelf

Box-Folder 1.4: P018:042 - P018:050 Add to Shelf

Item P018:042: Coastal scene Add to Shelf
Item P018:043: Yaquina Bay? Add to Shelf
Item P018:044: Shore scene Add to Shelf
Item P018:045: Coastal scene Add to Shelf
Item P018:046: Yaquina Head and Lighthouse, Newport Add to Shelf
Item P018:047: Group sitting on driftwood log below Yaquina Bay Lighthouse, Newport Add to Shelf
Item P018:048: Pa Baker on beach Add to Shelf
Item P018:049: Haystack rock, one mile from coast in the ocean Add to Shelf
Item P018:050: Morrison Street Bridge, Portland, circa 1905 Add to Shelf: Extent: 2 prints

Box-Folder 1.5: P018:051 - P018:060 Add to Shelf

Item P018:051: Bridge over Willamette River at Albany Add to Shelf
Item P018:053: Albany Railroad Bridge Add to Shelf
Item P018:054: Albany Bridge? Add to Shelf
Item P018:055: Albany Bridge? Add to Shelf: Extent: 1 print
Item P018:056: Waterfall Add to Shelf
Item P018:057: Young's Falls in Clatsop County? Add to Shelf
Item P018:058: Lower South Falls, Silver Falls near Salem Add to Shelf
Item P018:059: Albany Water power with the Oregon Electric Railroad tracks overhead Add to Shelf
Item P018:060: View of campus buildings from the southeast with houses and livestock in the foreground, May 21, 1905 Add to Shelf: Includes Benton and Education Halls. Image is available online.; Extent: 3 prints

Box-Folder 1.6: P018:061 - P018:075 Add to Shelf

Item P018:061: Benton Hall from Lower Campus path, circa 1906 Add to Shelf
Item P018:062: Benton Hall, flag at half mast, circa 1906 Add to Shelf
Item P018:063: Benton Hall, two trees in front, circa 1906 Add to Shelf
Item P018:064 - P018:065: Benton Hall and driveway, circa 1906 Add to Shelf: Extent: 1 print
Item P018:066: Blacksmith shop and water tower, January 21, 1906 Add to Shelf: Extent: 1 print
Item P018:067: Blacksmith shop and water tower, circa 1906 Add to Shelf
Item P018:069: O.A.C. flower bed in front of Benton Hall Add to Shelf: Extent: 1 print
Item P018:070: Woman in kitchen, Waldo Hall? Add to Shelf: Extent: 4 prints
Item P018:072: Residence of Jonas Rawalt Add to Shelf: Sec.30, Orion Twp., Fulton Co., Ill.; copy of an engraving; same as P018:076.; Extent: 1 print
Item P018:073: Portrait of Uncle Jonas (Rawalt?); bust Add to Shelf: Extent: 1 print
Item P018:074: Albert Evans with camera Add to Shelf: Extent: 1 print
Item P018:075: Portrait, unidentified Add to Shelf

Box-Folder 2.1: P018:077 - P018:088 Add to Shelf

Item P018:077 - P018:078: O.A.C. printing shop Add to Shelf: Images are available online: 77, 78.
Item P018:079: Group at club house on South Skunk River, 1906 Add to Shelf
Item P018:080: Group at club house on South Skunk River, six miles south of Newton, Iowa, 1905 Add to Shelf
Item P018:081: Some of the "bull's eye busters," state rifle range camp, Cedar Rapids, Iowa, 1905 Add to Shelf
Item P018:082: Group of soldiers, Company "L", Iowa National Guard, 1905 Add to Shelf
Item P018:083: Gladys Wilcox, age 15; taken in Iowa Add to Shelf
Item P018:084: Group at George Shenton Residence, two miles SW of Newton, Iowa, 1906 Add to Shelf
Item P018:085: Partial view of Iowa state rifle range, Cedar Rapids, Iowa, 1905 Add to Shelf
Item P018:086: 2nd Lt. W.R. Smith, Co. "L", Iowa National Guard, 1905 Add to Shelf
Item P018:087: Portrait of a woman and young boy Add to Shelf: Photo by C.F. Garrison, Rolfe, Iowa.
Item P018:088: Portrait of two young boys, circa 1895 Add to Shelf: Photo by Garrison Bros., Ft. Dodge, Iowa.

Box-Folder 2.2: P018:089 - P018:097 Add to Shelf

Item P018:089: Lebanon from top of Peterson Butte Add to Shelf: Extent: 2 prints
Item P018:090: "Lady of the Fountain" at O.A.C., circa 1905 Add to Shelf
Item P018:091: May Queen on her throne on the O.A.C. campus, May 1, 1908 Add to Shelf: Photograph by Bruce Sattele.
Item P018:092: May Queen coronation, 1908 Add to Shelf: Extent: 3 prints
Item P018:093: Flowering bush on the O.A.C. campus, April 7, 1906 Add to Shelf: Extent: 1 print
Item P018:094: Greenhouse (inside), East Lake Park, Los Angeles, California, March 1908 Add to Shelf: Negative by Bruce (Satelle?).
Item P018:095: Student on ladder next to flowering tree (grafting?), O.A.C. campus? Add to Shelf
Item P018:096: Willamette Valley looking east, Cascade Mountains in the distance. Add to Shelf: Note cord wood piles in foreground valley.; Extent: 2 prints
Item P018:097: Pasture scene with wooded hills in background Add to Shelf: Extent: 2 prints

Box-Folder 2.3: P018:098 - P018:110 Add to Shelf

Item P018:098: "A distant view of the hill we went to" Add to Shelf: Extent: 2 prints
Item P018:099: Pasture scene, east of house, December 1903 Add to Shelf: Extent: 1 print
Item P018:100: Snow covered pasture Add to Shelf: Extent: 1 print
Item P018:101: Tree in bloom on O.A.C. campus? Add to Shelf
Item P018:102: Unidentified scene Add to Shelf
Item P018:103: Old Horticulture Building, greenhouses and smokestack Add to Shelf
Item P018:104 - P018:107: Machinery components Add to Shelf
Item P018:108: Uprooted snag (blown over tree?) Add to Shelf: Extent: 1 print
Item P018:110: Southern Pacific depot, Capitol City Railway, Salem Add to Shelf: Extent: 1 print

Box-Folder 2.4: P018:111 - P018:126 Add to Shelf

Item P018:111: Caisson near Paleontology Lab Add to Shelf
Item P018:112: Benton Hall, south view Add to Shelf
Item P018:113: Benton Hall, taken from top of water tower toward downtown Corvallis Add to Shelf
Item P018:114: Benton Hall Add to Shelf
Item P018:117: Johnston's house Add to Shelf: Extent: 1 print
Item P018:118: Group in front of Scholtz house Add to Shelf: Extent: 1 print
Item P018:119: M.A. Crail's house, August 1910 Add to Shelf: Extent: 2 prints
Item P018:120: Two men in front of log cabin Add to Shelf
Item P018:121: Bookcase in a room Add to Shelf
Item P018:122: Desk in a yard Add to Shelf
Item P018:123: Three generations of Griffins, circa 1914 Add to Shelf
Item P018:124: Dorothy Laura Griffin, born May 4, 1914 Add to Shelf: Baby picture.
Item P018:125: Forestry Building, Portland, Lewis and Clark Exposition, 1905 Add to Shelf: Extent: mounted color postcard
Item P018:126: People standing in large excavated area in ground Add to Shelf

Box-Folder 2.5: P018:127 - P018:144 Add to Shelf

Item P018:127: Graduate in cap and gown Add to Shelf: 2 views; Extent: 3 prints
Item P018:128: "Senator" Sattele Add to Shelf
Item P018:129: Robert's room Add to Shelf: Extent: 1 print
Item P018:131: Dormitory hallway (Cauthorn Hall?) Add to Shelf
Item P018:132: Waller's room in Corvallis at O.A.C. Add to Shelf
Item P018:133: Parlor? in a house Add to Shelf
Item P018:134: Sofa and picture on a wall in a house Add to Shelf
Item P018:135: Pump organ in the corner of a room in a house Add to Shelf
Item P018:136: W.A. Baker's house, 1903 Add to Shelf: Extent: 1 print
Item P018:138: Central School, Salem? Add to Shelf
Item P018:139: Paleontology Lab Add to Shelf: Also known as Mines Building, Station Building, and Benton Annex. This image is available online.
Item P018:140: Cauthorn Hall Add to Shelf
Item P018:141: Street scene at an exposition? Add to Shelf
Item P018:142: Alpha Hall Add to Shelf
Item P018:143: View of an unidentified small town Add to Shelf
Item P018:144: Construction of Waldo Hall, circa 1906 Add to Shelf

Box-Folder 2.6: P018:145 - P018:170 Add to Shelf

Item P018:145 - P018:147: Gymnasium Add to Shelf
Item P018:148: Benton Hall in snow Add to Shelf
Item P018:149: Apperson Hall and driveway Add to Shelf
Item P018:151: Ferry pulling log boom in Portland's harbor Add to Shelf: Extent: 1 print
Item P018:160: Oregon State Capitol Building, Salem, circa 1905 Add to Shelf: Extent: 1 print
Item P018:168 - P018:170: Hiking trip, Marys Peak? Add to Shelf: Image 168 is available online.

Box-Folder 2.7: P018:171 - P018:180 Add to Shelf

Item P018:171: Young man in dormitory room Add to Shelf: Same room as image P018:172.; Extent: 3 prints
Item P018:172: Dormitory room Add to Shelf: Same room as image P018:171. Image is available online.; Extent: 2 prints
Item P018:173: Foot race Add to Shelf
Item P018:174: Group of young men, O.A.C. students? Add to Shelf
Item P018:175 - P018:178: Young men in dormitory room? Add to Shelf: Some images are available online: 175, 177, 178
Item P018:179: Portrait of a cadet taken near Cauthorn Hall Add to Shelf
Item P018:180: Young men on steps of Cauthorn Hall? Add to Shelf

Box-Folder 3.1: P018:181 - P018:200 Add to Shelf

Item P018:181: Young man in costume? sitting in dorm room?, January 1906 Add to Shelf: Extent: 2 prints
Item P018:182: Two young men Add to Shelf: Image includes 2 views.; Extent: 2 prints
Item P018:183: Young man sitting next to a window Add to Shelf: Extent: 1 print
Item P018:185: "Photo booth" snapshots of a young man Add to Shelf: Image includes 6 views.
Item P018:186: R.L. Whitehead portrait Add to Shelf: Photo by Gardner, Corvallis.
Item P018:187 - P018:190: Portraits of students sitting next to a window Add to Shelf
Item P018:191: Man sitting in a chair Add to Shelf
Item P018:192: Cartes de visite portrait of a woman, circa 1865 Add to Shelf: Photo by Murphy & Head, Photographers, Canton, Illinois
Item P018:193: Cartes de visite portrait of ? McCreary, circa May 1863 Add to Shelf: Photo by Taylor & Seavey, Photographers for the Army of the Tennessee.
Item P018:194: Class picture of school children next to school, circa 1915 Add to Shelf
Item P018:195: Class picture of school children by Elmer Path, Salem, Oregon, circa 1910 Add to Shelf
Item P018:196: Group of several people standing and sitting outdoors on a lawn Add to Shelf: Same group as in P018:199 - P018:200.
Item P018:197: Two young women and a little girl standing on porch steps, circa 1930 Add to Shelf
Item P018:198: Woman on skis, circa 1930 Add to Shelf
Item P018:199 - P018:200: Group Add to Shelf: Same group as in P018:196.

Box-Folder 3.2: P018:201 - P018:233 Add to Shelf

Item P018:201: Little girl holding a branch?, circa 1930 Add to Shelf
Item P018:211: Mrs. "S" (Simmons?) minus the smile Add to Shelf
Item P018:212 - P018:213: Older couple Add to Shelf
Item P018:214: Mrs. S with man Add to Shelf
Item P018:215: Mrs. S with child Add to Shelf
Item P018:216: George Nelson, 1909 Add to Shelf
Item P018:223: Portrait of an Athenaeum Literary Society member, 1906 Add to Shelf: Photo by Gardner, Corvallis.
Item P018:224: L.H. Cooper, football, 1907-1908 Add to Shelf: Photo by Gardner, Corvallis.
Item P018:225: John E. Hanny Add to Shelf: Photo by Gardner, Corvallis.
Item P018:226 - P018:232: Unidentified portraits Add to Shelf
Item P018:233: Unidentified portrait Add to Shelf: Extent: 2 prints

Box-Folder 3.3: P018:234 - P018:240 Add to Shelf

Item P018:234: Two young men walking along a forest road, circa 1905 Add to Shelf
Item P018:235: Two men in suits standing in a field, circa 1905 Add to Shelf
Item P018:236: Harvesters posing Add to Shelf
Item P018:237: Group of young men lying in the grass Add to Shelf
Item P018:238: Group of women in formal attire and children sitting on bags of wheat; thresher in background, circa 1905 Add to Shelf: Extent: 2 prints
Item P018:239 - P018:240: Mechanically threshing wheat, circa 1905 Add to Shelf

Box-Folder 3.4: P018:241 - P018:251 Add to Shelf

Item P018:241 - P018:242: Threshing wheat Add to Shelf
Item P018:243: Man standing next to team of two horses, circa 1905 Add to Shelf
Item P018:244: Man with team of horses outside a barn, circa 1900 Add to Shelf
Item P018:245: Three horse team with wagon, circa 1900 Add to Shelf
Item P018:246: Logger with saw, circa 1900 Add to Shelf
Item P018:247: Liberty schoolhouse (Marion County?), circa 1900 Add to Shelf
Item P018:248: Children standing next to woodpile and schoolhouse?, circa 1900 Add to Shelf
Item P018:249: Some members of the OAC Class of 1908, 1908 Add to Shelf: Includes Carrie Buchanan, Greta Gray, and Cleo Johnson.
Item P018:250: State penitentiary, Salem, circa 1905 Add to Shelf
Item P018:251: Capital National Bank, Salem, circa 1905 Add to Shelf: Extent: 1 print

Box-Folder 3.5: P018:252 - P018:269 Add to Shelf

Item P018:252: Oregon state reform school, Salem, circa 1905 Add to Shelf
Item P018:253: Willamette University, Salem, circa 1905 Add to Shelf: Extent: 1 print
Item P018:254: Joseph Meyers & Sons store with fire sale advertisements, Salem, circa 1905 Add to Shelf
Item P018:255: Stockton and Co., Salem, circa 1905 Add to Shelf
Item P018:256: Public school, Salem, circa 1905 Add to Shelf
Item P018:257: Bodine's Hay and Grain Warehouse, Salem, circa 1905 Add to Shelf
Item P018:258: Macleay new school house near Salem, circa 1905 Add to Shelf: Extent: 2 prints
Item P018:259: Chemawa Indian Training School, Salem, circa 1905 Add to Shelf: Extent: 2 prints

Box-Folder 3.6: P018:261 - P018:270 Add to Shelf

Item P018:261: Odd Fellows (IOOF) building, Salem, circa 1905 Add to Shelf: Extent: 2 prints
Item P018:262 - P018:263: Turner Memorial Tabernacle, Salem, circa 1905 Add to Shelf
Item P018:264: Parade floats in front of Capital Business College, Capital Bakery, and undertakers, Salem, circa 1905 Add to Shelf
Item P018:265: First Baptist Church, Salem, circa 1905 Add to Shelf
Item P018:266: Marion County Courthouse, Salem, circa 1905 Add to Shelf: Two different views of the courthouse.; Extent: 1 print
Item P018:267: Marion County Courthouse, Salem, circa 1905 Add to Shelf
Item P018:268: Unidentified building, Salem? Add to Shelf
Item P018:269: Willamette University, Salem, circa 1910 Add to Shelf
Item P018:270: Chemawa Indian Training School, Salem, circa 1905 Add to Shelf: Extent: 2 prints

Box-Folder 3.7: P018:271 - P018:280 Add to Shelf

Item P018:271: Salem school, circa 1905 Add to Shelf: Extent: 3 prints
Item P018:272: Salem High School, circa 1905 Add to Shelf
Item P018:273: Salem water works? office, circa 1905 Add to Shelf
Item P018:274: First Christian Science Church, Salem, circa 1905 Add to Shelf: Extent: 2 prints
Item P018:275: State Capitol and grounds with bandstand, Salem, circa 1905 Add to Shelf
Item P018:276: Old Salem Post Office; now Gatkey Hall at Willamette University, circa 1905 Add to Shelf
Item P018:277 - P018:278: Unidentified buildings, Salem?, circa 1905 Add to Shelf
Item P018:279: Salem City Hall, circa 1905 Add to Shelf
Item P018:280: Unidentified building, Salem?, circa 1905 Add to Shelf

Box-Folder 4.1: P018:281 - P018:284 Add to Shelf

Item P018:281: Unidentified church, Salem?, circa 1905 Add to Shelf
Item P018:282: Original Elks Club in Salem, circa 1905 Add to Shelf
Item P018:283: State Hospital entrance, Salem, circa 1905 Add to Shelf
Item P018:284: Unidentified building (school?), Salem?, circa 1905 Add to Shelf

Box-Folder 4.2: P018:305 - P018:313 Add to Shelf

Item P018:305: Kopplien's house, circa 1905 Add to Shelf: Extent: 2 prints
Item P018:313: Schrunk Girls Add to Shelf: Extent: 3 prints

Box-Folder 4.3: P018:368 - P018:378 Add to Shelf

Item P018:368: Armory and Agriculture Hall, circa 1905 Add to Shelf: Extent: 1 print
Item P018:369: View to east of Benton Hall (west side), lower campus, and downtown Corvallis Add to Shelf: Extent: 1 print
Item P018:370: View to east or northeast of Horticulture Building, Heating Plant and Tower, and Corvallis Add to Shelf: Central School in distance. Image is available online.; Extent: 1 print
Item P018:371: View to north from campus Add to Shelf: Extent: 2 prints
Item P018:372: View to northwest from campus Add to Shelf: Water tower in foreground. Image is available online.; Extent: 2 prints
Item P018:373: View to south/southeast from campus includes Mines Building, Agricultural Hall, and Armory Add to Shelf: Extent: 1 print
Item P018:374: Morrison Street Bridge and stern wheel steamer, Portland, circa 1905 Add to Shelf
Item P018:375: Morrison Street Bridge and ship, Portland, circa 1905 Add to Shelf
Item P018:376: Cordage (ropes) on boat, Portland?, circa 1905 Add to Shelf
Item P018:377: Steamer T.M. Richardson in Portland, circa 1905 Add to Shelf: Extent: 3 prints
Item P018:378: Lumber on wharf, Portland?, circa 1905 Add to Shelf

Box-Folder P018:379 - P018:387: 4.4 Add to Shelf

Item P018:379: Timber on wharf, Portland?, circa 1905 Add to Shelf: Extent: 1 print
Item P018:380: Ferry crossing Willamette River at Corvallis, circa 1905 Add to Shelf: See also nitrate negative P018:152.
Item P018:381: Steamer on the Willamette or Columbia Rivers, circa 1905 Add to Shelf
Item P018:382: Steamer Pomona at a dock, circa 1905 Add to Shelf
Item P018:383-P018:385: Navy ships in port at Portland, circa 1905 Add to Shelf
Item P018:386: W.A. Baker's house, circa 1905 Add to Shelf: Image very similar to P018:136 and P018:137.
Item P018:387: OAC Gymnasium, circa 1905 Add to Shelf

Sub-Series 2: Glass Negatives Add to Shelf

Box 5 Add to Shelf

Item P018:006: Cauthorn Hall, January 1906 Add to Shelf: Extent: 4x5 glass negative
Item P018:007: Cadets in room 68, Cauthorn Hall Add to Shelf: Extent: 4x5 glass negative
Item P018:011: Alexander Kesterton Chapman and James Hugh McCall in their room in Cauthorn Hall, February 11, 1906 Add to Shelf: Extent: 4x5 glass negative
Item P018:012: Hudson in his room, Cauthorn Hall, 1908 Add to Shelf: Extent: 4x5 glass negative
Item P018:013: Pennants in Hudson's room, Cauthorn Hall, 1908 Add to Shelf: Extent: 4x5 glass negative
Item P018:015: Cauthorn Hall, May 14, 1905 Add to Shelf: Extent: 4x5 glass negative
Item P018:019: Mechanical Hall, May 27, 1906 Add to Shelf: Extent: 2 4x5 glass negative
Item P018:023: Leach and Yeager in their dormitory room, February 25, 1906 Add to Shelf: Extent: 4x5 glass negative
Item P018:027: Private Chemistry Laboratory Add to Shelf: Chemical bottles in dormitory room.; Extent: 4x5 glass negative
Item P018:028: Octagonal (College) Barn, February 9, 1906 Add to Shelf: Extent: 4x5 glass negative
Item P018:029: Alpha Hall and sidewalks, late spring Add to Shelf: Extent: 4 4x5 glass negatives
Item P018:030: George Sauervin, OAC sub-freshman, at entrance to Education Hall, circa November 1907 Add to Shelf: Extent: 4x5 glass negative
Item P018:031: Mining Building, April 7, 1906 Add to Shelf: Benton Annex (Women's Center Building).; Extent: 2 4x5 glass negatives
Item P018:032: Marie Hutchins, circa December 1903 Add to Shelf: Extent: 4x5 glass negative
Item P018:036: Waldo Hall Thanksgiving Dinner, 1907 Add to Shelf: Extent: 4x5 glass negative
Item P018:060: View of campus buildings from the southeast with houses and livestock in the foreground, May 21, 1905 Add to Shelf: Includes Benton and Education Halls.; Extent: 4x5 glass negative
Item P018:064 - P018:065: Benton Hall and driveway, circa 1906 Add to Shelf: Extent: 4x5 glass negative

Box 6 Add to Shelf

Item P018:066: Blacksmith shop and water tower, January 21, 1906 Add to Shelf: Extent: 4x5 glass negative
Item P018:069: O.A.C. flower bed in front of Benton Hall Add to Shelf: Extent: 4x5 glass negative
Item P018:072: Residence of Jonas Rawalt Add to Shelf: Sec.30, Orion Twp., Fulton Co., Ill.; copy of an engraving; same as P018:076.; Extent: 4x5 glass negative
Item P018:073: Portrait of Uncle Jonas (Rawalt?); bust Add to Shelf: Extent: 4x5 glass negative
Item P018:074: Albert Evans with camera Add to Shelf: Extent: 4x5 glass negative
Item P018:076: Residence of Jonas Rawalt Add to Shelf: Same as P018:072.; Extent: 4x5 glass negative
Item P018:089: Lebanon from top of Peterson Butte Add to Shelf: Extent: 4x5 glass negative
Item P018:093: Flowering bush on the O.A.C. campus, April 7, 1906 Add to Shelf: Extent: 4x5 glass negative
Item P018:099: Pasture scene, east of house, December 1903 Add to Shelf: Extent: 4x5 glass negative
Item P018:100: Snow covered pasture Add to Shelf: Extent: 4x5 glass negative
Item P018:108: Uprooted snag (blown over tree?) Add to Shelf: Extent: 4x5 glass negative
Item P018:109: Stone's hay press Add to Shelf: Workers harvesting hay.; Extent: 4x5 glass negative
Item P018:110: Southern Pacific depot, Capitol City Railway, Salem Add to Shelf: Extent: 4x5 glass negative
Item P018:117: Johnston's house Add to Shelf: Extent: 4x5 glass negative
Item P018:118: Group in front of Scholtz house Add to Shelf: Extent: 4x5 glass negative
Item P018:119: M.A. Crail's house, August 1910 Add to Shelf: Extent: 4x5 glass negative
Item P018:129: Robert's room Add to Shelf: Extent: 4x5 glass negative
Item P018:136: W.A. Baker's house, 1903 Add to Shelf: Extent: 4x5 glass negative
Item P018:137: W.A. Baker's house, corner view, circa 1903 Add to Shelf: Extent: 4x5 glass negative
Item P018:160: Oregon State Capitol Building, Salem, circa 1905 Add to Shelf: Extent: 1 4x5 glass negative
Item P018:260: Odd Fellows (IOOF) building, Salem, circa 1905 Add to Shelf: Extent: 4x5 glass negative

Box 7 Add to Shelf

Item P018:266: Marion County Courthouse, Salem, circa 1905 Add to Shelf: Two different views of the courthouse.; Extent: 1 4x5 glass negative
Item P018:285: O.A.C. Armory, taken from Agricultural Hall, May 1908 Add to Shelf: Extent: 4x5 glass negative
Item P018:286: O.A.C. Armory, February 25, 1906 Add to Shelf: Extent: 4x5 glass negative
Item P018:287: Jess Evans Add to Shelf: Two views on one glass plate.; Extent: 4x5 glass negative
Item P018:288: O.A.C. Armory, circa 1908 Add to Shelf: Extent: 4x5 glass negative
Item P018:289: Mother's Picture, July 1907 Add to Shelf: Extent: 4x5 glass negative
Item P018:290: Peanut stand, Salem?, circa 1905 Add to Shelf: Extent: 4x5 glass negative
Item P018:291: Father with hat off, circa 1905 Add to Shelf: Extent: 4x5 glass negative
Item P018:292: Salem Railroad Station, circa 1905 Add to Shelf: Poor quality image.; Extent: 4x5 glass negative
Item P018:293: East Salem, circa 1905 Add to Shelf: Poor quality image.; Extent: 4x5 glass negative
Item P018:294: View taken from top of State Capitol showing Post Office, Marion County Courthouse,bandstand and Cook home?, Salem, circa 1905 Add to Shelf: Extent: 4x5 glass negative
Item P018:295: "Lady of the Fountain," O.A.C. campus, circa 1905 Add to Shelf: Extent: 4x5 glass negative
Item P018:296: Agriculture Hall, circa 1905 Add to Shelf: Extent: 4x5 glass negative
Item P018:297: Agriculture Hall, May 12, 1907 Add to Shelf: Extent: 4x5 glass negative
Item P018:298: Agriculture Hall, circa 1905 Add to Shelf: Extent: 4x5 glass negative
Item P018:299: W.A. Baker in cadet uniform on Cauthorn Hall porch, circa 1907 Add to Shelf: Extent: 4x5 glass negative
Item P018:300: Benton Hall, flag at half mast, May 27, 1905 Add to Shelf: Extent: 4x5 glass negative
Item P018:301: Benton Hall, June 1906 Add to Shelf: Extent: 4x5 glass negative
Item P018:302: Benton Hall and unidentified man, May 12,1907 Add to Shelf: Extent: 4x5 glass negative
Item P018:303: Benton Hall, May 1908 Add to Shelf: Extent: 4x5 glass negative
Item P018:304: Marble game on road, circa 1905 Add to Shelf: Extent: 4x5 glass negative
Item P018:306: Warrington's house, circa 1905 Add to Shelf: Extent: 4x5 glass negative
Item P018:307: Bullard's house, circa 1905 Add to Shelf: Extent: 4x5 glass negative

Box 8 Add to Shelf

Item P018:308: Kopplien Family portrait, circa 1905 Add to Shelf: Extent: 4x5 glass negative
Item P018:309: Walter Schrunk, June 24, 1904 Add to Shelf: Six poses on one negative.; Extent: 4x5 glass negative
Item P018:310 - P018:311: School house?, circa 1905 Add to Shelf: Extent: 4x5 glass negatives
Item P018:312: Clark's house, circa 1905 Add to Shelf: Extent: 4x5 glass negative
Item P018:314: Welch's house, 1906 Add to Shelf: Extent: 4x5 glass negative
Item P018:315: Flowers in the south window, circa 1906 Add to Shelf: Extent: 4x5 glass negative
Item P018:316: Ramsden's house, circa 1906 Add to Shelf: Extent: 4x5 glass negative
Item P018:317: Ramsden's cow and pigs, circa 1906 Add to Shelf: Extent: 4x5 glass negative
Item P018:318: W.A. Baker, Manley Stone, Ed Tooker, circa 1906 Add to Shelf: Extent: 4x5 glass negative
Item P018:319: Clark's goats, circa 1905 Add to Shelf: Extent: 4x5 glass negative
Item P018:320: Reaser timber cording wood, circa 1905 Add to Shelf: Extent: 4x5 glass negative
Item P018:321: Alice Mattens, circa 1905 Add to Shelf: Six poses on one negatives.; Extent: 4x5 glass negative
Item P018:322: House stamps (various homes) Add to Shelf: Three views on one negatives.; Extent: 4x5 glass negative
Item P018:323: Hada Kopplien, circa 1905 Add to Shelf: Six poses on one negatives.; Extent: 4x5 glass negative
Item P018:324: May Gardener, circa 1905 Add to Shelf: Extent: 4x5 glass negative
Item P018:325: Welch's house, circa 1905 Add to Shelf: Extent: 4x5 glass negative
Item P018:326: Shot's house, circa 1905 Add to Shelf: Extent: 4x5 glass negative
Item P018:327: Ramsden's house, circa 1905 Add to Shelf: Extent: 4x5 glass negative
Item P018:328: Four generations; family portrait Add to Shelf: Extent: 4x5 glass negative
Item P018:329: Schrunk's house, circa 1905 Add to Shelf: Extent: 4x5 glass negative
Item P018:330: Charles Ramsden's house, circa 1905 Add to Shelf: Extent: 4x5 glass negative
Item P018:331: Young boy on Ramsden's pony, circa 1905 Add to Shelf

Box 9 Add to Shelf

Item P018:332: Portraits of Ruth, Jess, Rehmo, Willie Add to Shelf: Six poses on one negative.; Extent: 4x5 glass negative
Item P018:333: W.A. Baker standing between two windows, circa 1907 Add to Shelf: Extent: 4x5 glass negative
Item P018:334: Pearl Gardener, circa 1905 Add to Shelf: Extent: 4x5 glass negative
Item P018:335: Evans group Add to Shelf: Five views on one negative.; Extent: 4x5 glass negative
Item P018:336: Snider Family standing next to house, circa 1905 Add to Shelf: Extent: 4x5 glass negative
Item P018:337: Clark and goats, circa 1905 Add to Shelf: Extent: 4x5 glass negative
Item P018:338: Reaser's timber, circa 1905 Add to Shelf: Extent: 4x5 glass negative
Item P018:339: Ramsden Family and house, circa 1905 Add to Shelf: Extent: 4x5 glass negative
Item P018:340: Bullard Family and house, circa 1905 Add to Shelf: Extent: 4x5 glass negative
Item P018:341: Pearl Gardener, circa 1905 Add to Shelf: Extent: 4x5 glass negative
Item P018:342 - P018:343: Ramsden's house, circa 1905 Add to Shelf: Extent: 4x5 glass negative
Item P018:344: Dog in a yard Add to Shelf: Extent: 4x5 glass negative
Item P018:345: Portraits of Tooker, Kopplien, Matten, Toms Add to Shelf: Four views on one negative.; Extent: 4x5 glass negative
Item P018:346: Albert Evans, circa 1905 Add to Shelf: Extent: 4x5 glass negative
Item P018:347: Portraits of Max Kopplien Add to Shelf: Five poses on one negative.; Extent: 4x5 glass negative
Item P018:348: Kopplien House, circa 1905 Add to Shelf: Extent: 4x5 glass negative
Item P018:349: Portraits of Jess Evans Add to Shelf: Six poses on one negative.; Extent: 4x5 glass negative
Item P018:350: Harter's stamps Add to Shelf: Six images on one negative.; Extent: 4x5 glass copy negative
Item P018:351: Clark's house, circa 1905 Add to Shelf: Extent: 4x5 glass negative
Item P018:352 - P018:353: Bullard's Family, circa 1905 Add to Shelf: Extent: 4x5 glass negatives
Item P018:354: Kopplien's tent and bicycle riders, circa 1905 Add to Shelf: Extent: 4x5 glass negative
Item P018:355: Portraits of Max Kopplien Add to Shelf: Six poses on one negative.; Extent: 4x5 glass negative
Item P018:356: Portraits of Alice Clark Add to Shelf: Six poses on one negative.; Extent: 4x5 glass negative

Box 10 Add to Shelf

Item P018:357: Portraits of Manley Stone Add to Shelf: Six poses on one negative.; Extent: 4x5 glass negative
Item P018:358: Kopplien family, circa 1885 Add to Shelf: Extent: 4x5 glass copy negative
Item P018:359: W.A. Baker, Manley Stone, Ed Tooker, circa 1907 Add to Shelf: Extent: 4x5 glass negative
Item P018:360: Evans House, circa 1905 Add to Shelf: Extent: 4x5 glass negative
Item P018:361: Ramsden's cow and pigs, circa 1905 Add to Shelf: Extent: 4x5 glass negative
Item P018:362: Johnston's house, south side, circa 1905 Add to Shelf: Extent: 4x5 glass negative
Item P018:363: Johnston's timber, south of house, circa 1905 Add to Shelf: Extent: 4x5 glass negative
Item P018:364: Francis Schrunk Add to Shelf: Extent: 4x5 glass negative
Item P018:365: Sodaville Springs, circa 1905 Add to Shelf: Extent: 4x5 glass negative
Item P018:366: Bethel School group, circa 1905 Add to Shelf: Extent: 4x5 glass negative
Item P018:367: Land clearing -- two men in front of a downed tree, circa 1905 Add to Shelf: Extent: 4x5 glass negative
Item P018:369: View to east of Benton Hall (west side), lower campus, and downtown Corvallis Add to Shelf: Extent: 4x5 glass negative
Item P018:370: View to east or northeast of Horticulture Building, Heating Plant and Tower, and Corvallis Add to Shelf: Central School in distance.; Extent: 4x5 glass negative
Item P018:371: View to north from campus Add to Shelf: Extent: 4x5 glass negative
Item P018:372: View to northwest from campus Add to Shelf: Water tower in foreground.; Extent: 4x5 glass negative
Item P018:373: View to south/southeast from campus includes Mines Building, Agricultural Hall, and Armory Add to Shelf: Extent: 4x5 glass negative

Box 11 Add to Shelf

Item P018:001: Cadets in formation next to Benton Hall Add to Shelf: Extent: 5x7 glass negative
Item P018:002: Military formation next to Education Hall Add to Shelf: Extent: 5x7 glass negative
Item P018:003: Military formation; college gymnasium in background Add to Shelf: Extent: 5x7 glass negative
Item P018:005: Cauthorn Hall, October 1907 Add to Shelf: Negatives by S.A. Brown.; Extent: 5x7 glass negatives
Item P018:008: Cauthorn Hall students; Whitehead, November 1907 Add to Shelf: Negative by S.A. Brown.; Extent: 5x7 glass negative
Item P018:009: Residents on porch and steps of Cauthorn Hall Add to Shelf: Extent: 2 5x7 glass negatives
Item P018:010: Cauthorn Hall residents on steps; Whitehead Add to Shelf: Extent: 5x7 glass negative

Box 12 Add to Shelf

Item P018:014: Cauthorn Hall students, November 1907 Add to Shelf: Similar to P018:008.; Extent: 5x7 glass negative
Item P018:016: Mechanical Hall, before third floor addition Add to Shelf: Extent: 5x7 glass negative
Item P018:020: Benton Hall Add to Shelf: Extent: 5x7 glass negative
Item P018:021: Education Hall Add to Shelf: Extent: 5x7 glass negative
Item P018:022: Old Horticulture Building and orchard Add to Shelf: Extent: 5x7 glass negative
Item P018:024: Women in front of Alpha Hall; "Rambler-Bicycle Hospital" on bicycle rack Add to Shelf: Extent: 5x7 glass negative
Item P018:025: Driveway leading up to Benton Hall Add to Shelf: Extent: 5x7 glass negative
Item P018:026: Benton Hall with "Champions" banner on flagpole Add to Shelf: Extent: 5x7 glass negative
Item P018:068: O.A.C. flower bed in front of Benton Hall Add to Shelf: Extent: 5x7 glass negative
Item P018:070: Woman in kitchen, Waldo Hall? Add to Shelf: Extent: 5x7 glass negative
Item P018:071: Student dining area, Cauthorn Hall? Add to Shelf: Extent: 5x7 glass negative
Item P018:115: Agriculture Hall and Benton Hall from lower campus Add to Shelf: Extent: 5x7 glass negative

Box 15 Add to Shelf

Item P018:305: Kopplien's house, circa 1905 Add to Shelf: Glass negative is broken.; Extent: 4x5 glass negative

Sub-Series 3: Nitrate Negatives Add to Shelf

Box 13 Add to Shelf

Item P018:018: Mechanical Hall, 1906 Add to Shelf: Extent: 1 nitrate negative
Item P018:037a: W.H. Baker's tombstone, circa 1908 Add to Shelf: Extent: 2 nitrate negatives
Item P018:050: Morrison Street Bridge, Portland, circa 1905 Add to Shelf: Extent: 1 nitrate negative
Item P018:055: Albany Bridge? Add to Shelf: Extent: 1 nitrate negative
Item P018:150: Porch Add to Shelf: Extent: 1 nitrate negative
Item P018:151: Ferry pulling log boom in Portland's harbor Add to Shelf: Extent: 1 nitrate negative
Item P018:152: Ferry crossing, Willamette River at Corvallis Add to Shelf: See also print P018:380.; Extent: 1 nitrate negative
Item P018:153: Sheep in a field Add to Shelf: Extent: 1 nitrate negative
Item P018:154: Massachusetts Building, Lewis & Clark Exposition? Add to Shelf: Extent: 1 nitrate negative
Item P018:155: Oregon (Lewis & Clark?) Exposition Center Add to Shelf: Extent: 1 nitrate negative
Item P018:156: Fair exhibit Add to Shelf: Extent: 1 nitrate negative
Item P018:157 - P018:158: Houses Add to Shelf: Extent: nitrate negatives
Item P018:159: Unidentified town Add to Shelf: Extent: 1 nitrate negative
Item P018:160: Oregon State Capitol Building, Salem, circa 1905 Add to Shelf: Extent: 1 nitrate negative
Item P018:161 - P018:164: World's Fair, San Diego Add to Shelf: Extent: nitrate negatives
Item P018:165 - P018:166: W.A. Baker's house, Salem? Add to Shelf: Extent: nitrate negatives
Item P018:167: W.A. Baker and mother? with tulips in yard Add to Shelf: Extent: nitrate negatives
Item P018:182: Two young men Add to Shelf: Image includes 2 views.; Extent: nitrate negative
Item P018:183: Young man sitting next to a window Add to Shelf: Extent: 1 nitrate negative
Item P018:184: Young man sitting next to a window Add to Shelf: Extent: 1 nitrate negative
Item P018:202 - P018:203: Group of women Add to Shelf: Extent: nitrate negatives
Item P018:204: Group of three men and two women standing on a bridge? Add to Shelf: Extent: 1 nitrate negative
Item P018:205: Pasture; mountains in background Add to Shelf: Extent: 1 nitrate negative
Item P018:206: House with mountains in background Add to Shelf: Extent: 1 nitrate negative
Item P018:207: Mountain lake Add to Shelf: Extent: 1 nitrate negative
Item P018:208: Portrait of a woman Add to Shelf: Extent: 1 nitrate negative
Item P018:209: Portrait of three little girls Add to Shelf: Extent: 1 nitrate negative
Item P018:210: Dog in a yard Add to Shelf: Extent: 1 nitrate negative
Item P018:217: Berry bushes on trellis Add to Shelf: Extent: 1 nitrate negative
Item P018:218: Two women Add to Shelf: Two views.; Extent: 1 nitrate negative
Item P018:219: Tulips next to a fence Add to Shelf: Extent: 1 nitrate negative
Item P018:220: Man standing on rocks at coast Add to Shelf: Extent: 1 nitrate negative
Item P018:221: Woman and children Add to Shelf: Extent: 1 nitrate negative
Item P018:222: Trees in a park? Add to Shelf: Extent: 1 nitrate negative
Item P018:251: Capital National Bank, Salem, circa 1905 Add to Shelf: Extent: 1 nitrate negative
Item P018:253: Willamette University, Salem, circa 1905 Add to Shelf: Extent: 1 nitrate negative
Item P018:271: Salem school, circa 1905 Add to Shelf: Extent: 1 nitrate negative
Item P018:368: Armory and Agriculture Hall, circa 1905 Add to Shelf: Extent: 1 nitrate negative
Item P018:379: Timber on wharf, Portland?, circa 1905 Add to Shelf: Extent: 1 nitrate negative

Sub-Series 4: Oversize Prints Add to Shelf

Box 14 Add to Shelf

Item P018:116: Lower campus panoramic views Add to Shelf: Two panoramic views mounted on cards tied with ribbon. Images include Agriculture, Benton, and Apperson Halls.; Extent: 2 oversize prints
Item P018:313: Schrunk Girls Add to Shelf

Series 2: Negative Sleeves and Envelopes, 1905-1910 Add to Shelf

Series II consists of a sampling of negative sleeves and envelopes, primarily for 4x5 glass negatives. The sleeves provide information on the date and subject of the photograph as well as the brand of plate, condition of light, camera settings, type of developer and paper, and exposure time for printing. The following information is printed on several of the envelopes: Return to W.A. Baker, The Photographer; Salem, Oregon R.F.D. 6.. W.A. Baker may be Walter's brother, William.

Box-Folder 4.5: Negative Sleeves and Envelopes Add to Shelf

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