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Class Sessions Photograph Collection, 1907-1961

By Trevor Sandgathe

Collection Overview

Title: Class Sessions Photograph Collection, 1907-1961

Predominant Dates: 1907-1918

ID: P 047

Primary Creator: Oregon Agricultural College

Extent: 0.01 cubic feet. More info below.

Arrangement: The Class Sessions Photograph Collection is comprised of one series: Photographs, 1907-1961. The photographs are arranged in the order assigned during the collection's preliminary processing.

Languages of Materials: English [eng]

Abstract

The Class Sessions Photograph Collection depicts Oregon State University students and faculty in classroom settings and engaged in various learning activities in the early to mid-1900s. Classes pictured include farm mechanics, pharmacy, business, engineering, home economics, and other subjects.

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

Scope and Content Notes

The Class Sessions Photograph Collection is comprised of 19 unique black and white photographic prints depicting class sessions at Oregon State University (then Oregon Agricultural College and Oregon State College) from 1907-1961. The photographs include images of students and instructors in classrooms and outdoor learning environments. Several of the images include women students. Classes pictured include farm mechanics, camp cookery, pharmacy, business, engineering, bacteriology, woodshop, soils sciences, home economics, sociology, art, and other subjects.

The photographs in this collection have been assigned numbers P047:01-P047:20. P047:02 is not extant.

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

Administrative Information

More Extent Information: 1 box; 20 photographic prints

Statement on Access: Collection is open for research.

Acquisition Note: This collection was received by the Oregon State University Archives in the 1960s and appears to have been assembled from multiple sources. Image P047:03 was accessioned from the Oregon Stater magazine; P047:04 was accessioned from Kate Failing; P047:05 was accessioned from the Oregon State College News Bureau. P047:02 is not extant.

Related Materials: The Special Collections and Archives Research Center holdings include numerous photograph collections documenting student and employee activities on the Oregon State University campus. The Student Activities Photograph Collection (P 045), Associated Students of OSU (ASOSU) Photographs (P 154), Faculty and Staff Photograph Collection (P 046), and the Beaver Yearbook Photographs (P 003) include images of students, faculty, classes, and teaching spaces.

Preferred Citation: Class Sessions Photograph Collection (P 047), Oregon State University Special Collections and Archives Research Center, Corvallis, Oregon.

Processing Information: A preliminary container list for this collection was published in 2012. This finding aid has been updated to reflect current arrangement and description practices.

Creators

Oregon Agricultural College
Oregon State College.

People, Places, and Topics

College students--Oregon--Corvallis.
College teaching--Oregon--Corvallis.
Oregon Agricultural College--Faculty.
Oregon Agricultural College--Students.
Oregon State College--Faculty.
Oregon State College--Students.
University History
Women--Education (Higher)--Oregon--Corvallis.

Forms of Material

Photographic prints.

Box and Folder Listing

Series 1: Photographs, circa 1907-1961
The Class Sessions Photograph Collection is comprised of 19 unique black and white photographic prints depicting class sessions at Oregon State University (then Oregon Agricultural College and Oregon State College) from 1907-1961. Photographs in the series have been assigned numbers P047:01-P047:20. P047:02 is not extant.
Item P047:01: Farm mechanics students working on farm machinery, circa 1915
Item P047:03: Two students posing with apparatus in a pharmacy class, 1952
Item P047:04: Group photo of a camp cookery class, 1913
Includes: Clifford H. Spalding, Foster McKinley Murphy, David Morris Johns, Robert Laurie Waddell, Wayne Walter Coe, Donald Edgar Brown, Ernest F. Crouchley, Eric William Neale, George Richmond Whitter, James Odye Beck, George Mahlon Stambach, Fredrick Aram Holmes, Owen H. Johnston, Glenn Shoemaker, Harold William Tinker, Wilson, Leon Myer Bernstein, Sereno Elmer Brett, and G. Millage Montgomery.
Item P047:05: Female students typing in a business class, 1951
Includes: Professor Fred E. Winger
Item P047:06: Group photo of an engineering class, 1961
Includes: W. J. Wright, Jim Leonard, Gary Jaros, Larry Reierson, Ray Sanders, Rich Walker, Doug Johnson, D. M. Montgomery, Neil Samuels, R. E. Evans, J. R. Wessek, Robin Harrison, C. J. Davson, K. L. Makie, Ralph Thompson, D. C. Chambers, W. H. Paul, Cliff Jacobsen and Richard Kaufman.
Item P047:07: Bacteriology class, circa 1910

Includes: Theodore Beckwith and Day [?].

Image by L. W. Jones Commercial Photographer, Portland, Oregon.

Item P047:08: Woodshop class, circa 1910
Item P047:09: Two students working in a soil science laboratory, circa 1910
Image annotation: "Studying soil and moisture."
Item P047:10: Home economics students working on weaving and needlepoint projects, circa 1925
Item P047:11: A woman holding an infant watches as another woman sews a baby bib during a home management class, circa 1940
Item P047:12: Students in a chemistry laboratory, circa 1910
Includes: Harding and Charles "Shrimp" Reynolds.
Item P047:13: Outdoor camp cookery class for women, circa 1918
Item P047:14: Men cooking over fire in camp cookery class, circa 1910
Item P047:15: Summer Session class in communications, circa 1955
Item P047:16: Participants in a geography class studying a wall-mounted map, circa 1950
Item P047:17: Dr. Hans Plambeck in session with a sociology class, circa 1960
Item P047:18: Women sitting on the front porch of Alpha Hall, circa 1907
2 photographic prints.
Item P047:19: Student sketching a male model in art class, 1909
Item P047:20: Blacksmithing students in the blacksmith shop, circa 1908

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