The Donald L. Mason Photographs depict the Oregon State College campus foundry facilities, items made at the foundry, and students in foundry classes. Mason earned a BS in Industrial Arts from Oregon State College in 1937 and was Foundry Instructor in the Industrial Arts Department until 1943.
Scope and Content Notes
The Donald L. Mason Photographs consist of images taken and collected by Mason during his student years and as an Industrial Arts Instructor at Oregon State College. The images depict the campus foundry and other industrial arts facilities, items made at the foundry, techniques such as sand molding, and students in foundry classes. The collection includes a photograph of Ambrose Ridenour, who was a foundry instructor at Oregon State from 1911 until about 1933. The brass and metal objects featured in the photographs include candelabras, a sundial, door knockers, lamps and a knife handle. The collection also includes printed illustrations of tools and machinery for metal making sold by the Artcraft Company and the Central Engraving Company (both of Cleveland).
Biographical / Historical Notes
Donald L. Mason earned a BS in Industrial Arts from Oregon State College in 1937. Mason enrolled at Oregon State in the fall of 1930 after graduating from Eugene High School. He attended Oregon State full time during the 1930/31 through 1934/35 academic years. For the next two years (1935/36 and 1936/37), he was an undergradaute assistant in industrial arts and took a few courses per term to complete his degree. Following graduation, Mason was the Foundry Instructor in the Industrial Arts Department until 1943, when he accepted an appointment as Teaching Specialist in Foundry Practice at Stanford University. Donald Lyman Mason was born in Harmony, Minnesota, on January 14, 1911. After his father's sudden death in 1919, Mason's mother moved with her children to Eugene, Oregon, to live with her parents.
