By Karl McCreary
Title: Edith Whitelock Lowe Collection, 1920-1989
Predominant Dates: 1920-1924
ID: MSS Lowe
Primary Creator: Lowe, Edith Whitelock
Extent: 0.25 cubic feet. More info below.
Date Acquired: 00/00/1996
Languages of Materials: English [eng]
The Edith Whitelock Lowe Collection is comprised of two scrapbooks assembled by aluma Edith Whitelock Lowe as well as a photograph, a class list, and correspondence.
One of the scrapbooks contains photographs and other items reflecting Lowe's student experience at Oregon Agricultural College. The other scrapbook pertains to Oregon counties and was assembled by Lowe as a high school student. The photograph and class list document Lowe's attendance of a fifty year reunion of the OAC Class of 1924. The correspondence concerns the subject of Lowe's passing in 1989. There is also a photocopy of Lowe's diploma from OAC.
More Extent Information: 2 boxes, including 1 oversize box
Statement on Access: Collection is open for research.
Acquisition Note: These materials were transferred to the University Archives in 1996 by Bette-Jean Black, Edith Whitelock Lowe's niece.
Related Materials:
There are many other collections in the Special Collections and Archives that document student life during the 1920s. These include: the Florence Gradon Scrapbook (MSS Gradon); the George J. and Florence Badura Collection (MSS Badura); the Albert Schleicher Papers (MSS Schleicher); the Bessie Brown Lawrence Photograph Collection (P 258); the Spike Sisters Scrapbooks (MSS Spike); and the Frederick V. Betts Scrapbook (MSS Betts).
Images depicting Lowe together with fellow alumae Agnes Behrens and Gertrude Ellis (Elmore) as students in 1922 and later in 1980 for an event (class reunion?) can be found in the Alumni Relations Photograph Collection (P 017).
Preferred Citation: Edith Whitelock Lowe Collection (MSS Lowe), Oregon State University Special Collections and Archives Research Center, Corvallis, Oregon.
Processing Information: This finding aid was prepared under remote working conditions in 2020 without access to the original collection. Consequently the number of photographs in the collection could not be determined by the finding aid author and is not included in this finding aid.
Finding Aid Revision History: This finding aid replaces information about the collection that was placed online in 2012.
Lowe, Edith Whitelock
Class reunions--Oregon--Corvallis.
Lowe, Edith Whitelock
Oregon Agricultural College--Alumni and alumnae.
Student activities--Oregon--Corvallis.
University History
Women--Education (Higher)--Oregon--Corvallis.
Photographic prints.
Scrapbooks.
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