Oregon State College Preview and Promotional Booklets, 1938-1960
The Oregon State College Preview and Promotional Booklets consist of annual publications in magazine format with many photographic illustrations that provide a preview for incoming students of the new academic year and promote Oregon State College to potential new students.
All items from this collection have been digitized and are available in Oregon Digital.
Items in another publication collection (PUB 378 - This is Oregon State introductory booklets) as well as issues of the Preview magazine in the History of OSU book collection were transferred into this publication collection in May 2018 in the course of physical processing and description of this collection.
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[Date of Acknowledgement: November 2024]
Container List
- Series 1: Preview, 1938-1948 Add to Shelf
- Series 1 consists of an annual publication previewing the Oregon State College year. The magazine was written, edited, and published in the fall by the Beaver yearbook staff of that academic year for incoming freshmen to provide “a concrete picture of the college they are about to adopt as their home for the next four years”. The issues include the academic calendar; a campus map; sports schedules; guidance regarding wardrobes and campus fashion; and articles about campus traditions, sororities, fraternities and living groups, student government, and student activities.
- Box-Folder-Item 1.1.01: Pre Views of the Oregon State Year, 1938 Add to Shelf
- Box-Folder-Item 1.1.02: Previews of the Oregon State Year, 1939 Add to Shelf
- Box-Folder-Item 1.1.03: Previews of the Oregon State Year, 1940 Add to Shelf
- Box-Folder-Item 1.1.04: Oregon State Preview, 1941 Add to Shelf
- Box-Folder-Item 1.1.05: Preview Oregon State College, 1942 Add to Shelf
- Box-Folder-Item 1.1.06: Preview The College Year at Oregon State, 1943 Add to Shelf
- Box-Folder-Item 1.1.07: Preview the College Year at Oregon State, 1944 Add to Shelf
- Box-Folder-Item 1.1.08: Oregon State Preview Year 1946-47, 1946 Add to Shelf
- Box-Folder-Item 1.1.09: Preview Oregon State Year 1947-48, 1947 Add to Shelf
- Box-Folder-Item 1.1.10: Have You Met Benny Beaver? An Introduction to Oregon State College, 1948 Add to Shelf
- Series 2: Promotional Booklets, 1942-1960 Add to Shelf
- Series 2 consists of promotional booklets published by Oregon State College from the 1940s to 1960. They provide information about student government; academic programs; living groups; student activities; and especially, for issues published during and immediately following World War II, military programs and services for veterans.
- Box-Folder-Item 1.2.1: This is Oregon State, 1942 Add to Shelf
- Box-Folder-Item 1.2.2: This is Oregon State, 1944 Add to Shelf
- Box-Folder-Item 1.2.3: It's Your Tomorrow at Oregon State, 1945 Add to Shelf
- Box-Folder-Item 1.2.4: Going to College? Consider Oregon State, circa 1949 Add to Shelf
- Box-Folder-Item 1.2.5: What Oregon State Offers You ..., 1950 Add to Shelf
- Box-Folder-Item 1.2.6: College Now? Oregon State Presents an Answer ..., 1951 Add to Shelf
- Box-Folder-Item 1.2.7: Your Campus Years at Oregon State, 1958 Add to Shelf
- Box-Folder-Item 1.2.8: Through the Year at Oregon State, 1960 Add to Shelf