English Department Photographs, circa 1960

Title: English Department Photographs, circa 1960

ID: P 222

Primary Creator: Oregon State University. Department of English

Extent: 0.01 cubic feet. More info below.

Languages of Materials: English [eng]

The English Department Photographs consist exclusively of images Bernard Malamud, novelist and Oregon State College English professor.

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

This collection consists of photographs of Bernard Malamud. The images include various views of Malamud, standing in front of a fireplace, crouching at a bookshelf, looking out of a window, and with a cat in his lap. The photographs may have been made in his home. All of the images are original camera negatives, primarily 4x5, with some 120 format.

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

Novelist Bernard Malamud was an English professor at Oregon State College from 1949 to 1961. During this time he wrote three novels: The Natural (1952), The Assistant (1957), and A New Life (1961) as well as a collection of short stories, The Magic Barrel (1959) for which he received the National Book Award. He was presented OSU's Distinguished Service Award in 1969.

English has been part of the curriculum since the founding of the University in 1868. In the 1960s, the English Department became the first liberal arts department to offer a bachelor's degree.

More Extent Information: 1 B&W print and 17 negatives

Related Materials: Other photographs of Malamud are available in Harriet's Photograph Collection (P HC) as well as the Gwil Evans Photographic Collection (P 082) and Oregon Stater Photograph Collection (P 195). Biographical information about Malamud is in the OSU Memorabilia Collection (P HC). Other materials pertaining to the English Department are available in the Memorabilia Collection and the Sigurd Peterson Collection (MSS PetersonS).

Preferred Citation: English Department Photographs (P 222), Oregon State University Special Collections and Archives Research Center, Corvallis, Oregon.

Oregon State University. Department of English

Malamud, Bernard--Portraits.
Oregon State University. Department of English
University History

Film negatives.