By Karl McCreary
Title: Ruth Newmyer Photograph Collection, 1915
ID: P 239
Primary Creator: Newmyer, Ruth
Extent: 0.01 cubic feet. More info below.
Date Acquired: 00/00/2000
Languages of Materials: English [eng]
Ruth Newmyer was born in Nebraska in 1894 and resided in the communty of Chemawa, Oregon before entering Oregon Agricultural College in 1912. At OAC, Ruth studied home economics and graduated with a bachelor's degree in 1916. Aside from her studies, Ruth was active in the campus YWCA group and the women's hockey team, serving as captain.
In 1917, Newmyer married fellow OAC graduate, Armond Taylor and together they raised one son, Armond Clark Taylor.
Ruth died in 1987.
More Extent Information: 25 photographs; 1 box
Statement on Access: Collection is open for research.
Acquisition Note: The materials were donated to the University Archives in 2000 by Ruth Newmyer's son, Armond Taylor.
Related Materials:
There are many other collections in the OSU Special Collections and Archives Research Center that contain images of campus and student life during the 1910s. These include: the Alva Aitken Photograph Collection (P 116); the Joseph Robert Akers Photograph Collection (P 244); the Ernest Cook Photograph Collection (P 221); the Francis and Lois Wilson Neer Photograph Album (P 206); and the Charles Leon Robinson Photograph Album (P 215).
Other collections that contain 1910s era photographic views of Corvallis include: the Corvallis, Oregon, Photograph Collection (P 051) and the Harriet's Photographic Collection (P HC).
Preferred Citation: Ruth Newmyer Photograph Collection (P 239), Oregon State University Special Collections and Archives Research Center, Corvallis, Oregon.
Finding Aid Revision History: This finding aid replaces information about the collection that was placed online in 2012.
Newmyer, Ruth
College buildings--Oregon--Corvallis.
College environment--Oregon--Corvallis.
Corvallis (Or.)--History.
Local History
Oregon Agricultural College
Oregon Agricultural College--Buildings.
University History
Photographic prints.
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