Ruby Breithaupt Photograph Collection, circa 1893-1910

Title: Ruby Breithaupt Photograph Collection, circa 1893-1910

Predominant Dates: 1910

ID: P 042

Primary Creator: Breithaupt, Ruby (1892-1983)

Extent: 0.01 cubic feet. More info below.

Languages of Materials: English [eng]

Abstract

The Ruby Breithaupt Photograph Collection consists of several photographs of Oregon Agricultural College students assembled by Breithaupt, including a 1910 image of a group at Jump-off Joe on Nye Beach in Newport, Oregon.

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

Scope and Content Notes

The Ruby Breithaupt Photograph Collection consists of five photographic prints of Oregon Agricultural College students assembled by Breithaupt. Four of the prints were made in 1910; they depict picnics, a trip to Jump-off Joe at Nye Beach in Newport, Oregon, and a group of students on the steps of Cauthorn (now Fairbanks) Hall. The following individuals are identified in the photos: Ethel Allen, LeRoy Breithaupt, Leona Davis Cox, Ruby Elliott, Rhetta Huntington, McKinley Huntington, Kat O'Connor, Carl Clifton Titus, and Alfred Edmund Volck.

The collection also includes one albumen print made by John Fulton in about 1893 of a group of Oregon Agricultural College students on the steps of the Station Building (now the Women's Center Building). This group includes Fred Buchanan, Brady Burnett, Edward Getty Emmett, and Erma Laurence.

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

Biographical / Historical Notes

Ruby Elliott, from Gresham, Oregon, attended Oregon Agricultural College in the 1908/1909 and 1909/1910 academic years. She married LeRoy Breithaupt in 1912. LeRoy Breithaupt graduated from Oregon Agricultural College in 1910 with a degree in agriculture. He was superintendent of the Harney Agricultural Experiment Station from 1912 to 1917; became the Malheur County extension agent in 1920; and was an extension specialist in agricultural economics from 1926 until his retirement in 1951.

Administrative Information

More Extent Information: 5 photographs; 1 box

Statement on Access: Collection is open for research.

Acquisition Note: The photographs were donated to the Archives by Ruby Breithaupt in 1965.

Related Materials: Other materials pertaining to LeRoy and Ruby Breithaupt are available in the OSU Memorabilia Collection (MSS MC).

Preferred Citation: Ruby Breithaupt Photograph Collection (P 042), Oregon State University Special Collections and Archives Research Center, Corvallis, Oregon.

Creators

People, Places, and Topics

Breithaupt, L. R. (Le Roy), 1886-
Breithaupt, Ruby, 1892-1983
College students--Oregon--Corvallis.
Oregon Agricultural College--Students.
Pacific Coast (Or.)
University History