Nicholas Schneider Photograph Collection, 1912-1915

Title: Nicholas Schneider Photograph Collection, 1912-1915

Predominant Dates: 1914-1915

ID: P 148

Primary Creator: Schneider, Nicholas (1893-)

Extent: 0.01 cubic feet. More info below.

Languages of Materials: English [eng]

The Nicholas Schneider Photograph Collection consists of images of fellow students and student activities assembled by Schneider during this student years at Oregon Agricultural College (OAC) prior to World War I. Schneider attended OAC in 1912-1916 and returned after the war to complete a BS in commerce in 1922.

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

The Nicholas Schneider Photograph Collection consists of images assembled by Schneider during his student years at Oregon Agricultural College (OAC) prior to World War I. The images are primarily of fellow students and student activities. The items appear to have been removed from a scrapbook and are numbered P148:01 thru P148:09. The collection includes duplicate modern prints (probably made in the 1960s or 1970s) of two of the images.

The prints include images of the canoe house and a canoe on Fischer's Mill Race and the annual tug-of war between the freshman and sophomore classes at Fischer's Mill Race in 1915. Prints of the Class of 1918 sophomore class football team and cadets drilling on campus are part of the collection. An image of 3 students (Schneider, Greenlee, and Crane) standing next to a snow bank on Marys Peak in 1914 and a snapshot of several students standing on Monroe Street in 1912 are included. The collection also includes a photograph of Jim Arbuthnot, an OAC physical education instructor, and Schneider changing a tire on Arbuthnot's car (a Maxwell).

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

Alumnus Nicholas Schneider earned a BS degree in Commerce from Oregon Agricultural College (OAC) in 1922.

A native of Portland, Oregon, Schneider completed school through the 8th grade in Portland and enrolled at OAC in the secondary school program during the 1912/1913 and 1913/1914 school years. He was enrolled as a freshman for the 1914/1915 year and in the vocational program in the 1915/1916 year. After military service during World War I, he returned to OAC in the summer of 1919 and completed his degree in 1922.

More Extent Information: 11 photographs; 1 box

Statement on Access: Collection is open for research.

Acquisition Note: The photographs were donated by Schneider in the 1960s.

Related Materials: The Special Collections and Archives Research Center holdings include many collections with images of students and students activities during the 1910s. The James T. Gaither Photograph Collection (P 275) also includes several images of the annual tug-of-war between the college freshmen and sophomores.

Preferred Citation: Nicholas Schneider Photograph Collection (P 148), Oregon State University Special Collections and Archives Research Center, Corvallis, Oregon.

Schneider, Nicholas (1893-)

College students--Oregon--Corvallis.
Corvallis (Or.)
Local History
Military education--Oregon--Corvallis.
Oregon Agricultural College--Students.
Schneider, Nicholas, 1893-
Student activities--Oregon--Corvallis.
University History

Photographic prints.