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Illustrated Booklets, 1911-1930View associated digital content.

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.

ID: PUB 488
Extent: 0.85 cubic feet
Scope and Content Notes
Biographical / Historical Notes
Statement on Access: Collection is open for research.
Arrangement
Preferred Citation: Illustrated Booklets (PUB 488), Special Collections and Archives Research Center, Oregon State University, Corvallis, Oregon.
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.
Languages of Materials
Other

Container List

Series 1: Unbound Items, 1911-1930 Add to Shelf
Series 1 consists of individual copies of the illustrated booklets and includes most (27 of 29) of the published illustrated booklets that comprise this collection.
Box-Folder 1.1 Add to Shelf
Item 1: Dignifying the Industries, 1911 Add to Shelf
College Bulletin no. 52.
Item 2: Dignifying the Industries, 1912 Add to Shelf
College Bulletin no. 60.
Item 3: The Enrichment of Rural Life, 1913 Add to Shelf
College Bulletin no. 86.
Box-Folder 1.2 Add to Shelf
Item 1: The Life Career, 1914 Add to Shelf
College Bulletin no. 150
Item 2: The Trail Blazers, 1915 Add to Shelf
College Bulletin no. 200.
Item 3: Uniting Learning and Labor, 1916 Add to Shelf
College Bulletin no. 236.
Item 4: O.A.C  and U.S.A., 1918 Add to Shelf
College Bulletin no. 284.
Box-Folder 1.3 Add to Shelf
Item 1: Leadership, 1919 Add to Shelf
College Bulletin no. 305.
Item 2: Education Pays, 1920 Add to Shelf
College Bulletin no.333.
Item 3: Training for the Vocations, 1921 Add to Shelf
College Bulletin no. 355.
Box-Folder 1.4 Add to Shelf
Item 1: The Campus, 1922 Add to Shelf
College Bulletin no. 371.
Box-Folder 1.5 Add to Shelf
Item 1: College and State, 1923 Add to Shelf
College Bulletin no. 378.
Item 2: The College Girl at O.A.C., 1923 Add to Shelf
College Bulletin no. 383.
Item 3: The College Girl at O.A.C, 1924 Add to Shelf
College Bulletin no. 383.
Item 4: A Liberal and Practical Education, 1924 Add to Shelf
College Bulletin no. 396.
Box-Folder 1.6 Add to Shelf
Item 1: Music the Educator, 1926 Add to Shelf
College Bulletin no. 414.
Box-Folder 1.7 Add to Shelf
Item 1: Science for Service, 1926 Add to Shelf
College Bulletin no. 419.  Written by Edwin T. Reed, College Editor.
Item 2: Women's Career Through Training in Home Economics, 1927 Add to Shelf
College Bulletin no. 437.  By Zelta Feike Rodenwold.
Item 3: Science: The Key to Education, 1928 Add to Shelf
College Bulletin no. 438.  By Edwin T. Reed, College Editor.
Item 4: Music the Educator, 1928 Add to Shelf
College Bulletin no. 439.
Item 5: What Career?, 1928 Add to Shelf
College Bulletin no. 445.  By Edwin T. Reed, College Editor.
Item 6: Modern Business, 1928 Add to Shelf
College Bulletin no. 446.  By J.A. Bexell, Dean of the School of Commerce.
Item 7: Landscape Architecture, 1929 Add to Shelf
College Bulletin no. 457.  By  Arthur L. Peck, Professor of Landscape Architecture.  Includes 2 copies.
Box-Folder 1.8 Add to Shelf
Item 1: Training for Farming, 1929 Add to Shelf
College Bulletin no. 458.
Box-Folder 1.9 Add to Shelf
Item 1: Occupations for the Agriculturally Trained, 1930 Add to Shelf
College Bulletin no. 464.  Prepared by Edwin T. Reed, College Editor.  Includes information on the vocational guidance booklets and production information for this booklet.
Item 2: What Can a Woman Do with Home Economics Training?, 1930 Add to Shelf
College Bulleti nno. 469.  By Zelta Feike Rodenwold.
Item 3: The Memorial Union, 1930 Add to Shelf
College Bulletin no. 470.  By Edwin T. Reed, College Editor.
Series 2: Bound Volumes, 1911-1929 Add to Shelf
Series 2 consists of bound sets of a selection of the Illustrated Booklets.  Of special note are clippings about the 1911 Dignifying the Industries booklet bound with that publication.  Series 2 includes 2 bulletins that are only available in bound volumes:  Called to the Colors and Shall I Choose Engineering?.
Box-Item 2.1: Dignifying the Industries, 1911 Add to Shelf
Includes clippings about the publication.
Box-Item 2.2: Dignifying the Industries, 1912 Add to Shelf
Box-Item 2.3: Illustrated Booklets, 1913-1917 Add to Shelf
Includes The Enrichment of Rural Life, The Life Career, The Trail Blazers, Uniting Learning and Labor, and Called to the Colors.
Box-Item 2.4: Illustrated Booklets, 1917-1924 Add to Shelf
Includes Called to the Colors, O.A.C. and U.S.A., Leadership, Education Pays, Training for the Vocations, The Campus, and  A Liberal and Practical Education.
Box-Item 2.5: Illustrated Booklets, 1923-1924 Add to Shelf
Includes College and State and The College Girl at O.A.C.
Box-Item 3.1: Vocational Guidance Booklets, 1927-1929 Add to Shelf
Includes What Career?, Shall I Choose Engineering?, Woman's Career, Modern Business, and Landscape Architecture.
Box-Item 3.2: Illustrated Booklets, 1926-1928 Add to Shelf
Includes Science for Service and Science, The Key to Education.
Series 3: Correspondence, 1925 Add to Shelf
Series 3 consists of a letter to department heads from the College Editor, Edwin T. Reed, requesting content for the illustrated booklet to be published in 1926 on the theme, Science for Service.
Box-Folder 3.3 Add to Shelf
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