Beaver Yearbook Photographs, 1938-2005
The Beaver Yearbook Photographs consist of images taken by Beaver Yearbook staff that were used in the publication of the yearbook over the course of several decades.
Images from this collection have been digitized and are available in Oregon Digital. Reference access to materials stored on CDs is available upon request. Please see SCARC's "Accessing Audio-Visual Content" for more information.
This collection is not fully processed and a complete finding aid is not available at this time.
We acknowledge that materials in SCARC collections and the language that describes them may be harmful. We are actively working to address our descriptive practices; for more information please see our SCARC Anti-Racist Actions Statement online.
The archivist-prepared description of this collection uses the phrase “Civil War” to refer to the long-standing athletic rivalry between Oregon State University and the University of Oregon. A history of this athletic rivalry, and use of the phrase “Civil War” to describe it, is available online in The Origins of the "Civil War" Football Game blog post.
In June 2020, Oregon State University President Edward J. Ray announced that the term “Civil War” will no longer be used by either university because it “represents a connection to a war fought to perpetuate slavery.”
Additionally, the term “gypsy” is used in this collection to describe Romani people as well as costumes and student events featuring stereotypical depictions of Roma. It appears in the collection finding aid and in materials that have been scanned and uploaded to Oregon Digital. The term “gypsy” is considered derogatory by many Roma people. It comes from the word “Egyptian,” where many Europeans mistakenly believed the Romani came from. In 1971, at the First World Roma Congress, a majority of attendees voted to reject the use of the term “gypsy,” however some still use it to self-identify. For more information, please see our blog post.
We acknowledge the racism represented by the language in this collection and the harm it may cause our users. In order to provide historical context and to enable standardized searching and access across our collections, we have retained the original wording in the collection description. Providing access to these historical materials does not endorse any attitudes or behavior depicted therein.
[Date of acknowledgement: November 2021 and November 2024]