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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]

The Ruth Newmyer Photograph Collection consists of photographic prints collected by alumna Ruth Newmyer during her student years at Oregon Agricultural College. Mounted on scrapbook pages, these images depict Corvallis buildings and streetscapes, OAC campus views, and Mt. Hood. Newmyer graduated with an undergraduate degree in home economics in 1916. An image from this collection has been digitized and is available in Oregon Digital.

The Ruth Newmyer Photograph Collection consists of photographic prints collected by alumna Ruth Newmyer during her student years at Oregon Agricultural College (OAC). The images, which are mounted on scrapbook pages, consist of commercially produced snapshots that depict buildings on the OAC campus, Corvallis buildings and streetscapes, and Mount Hood (Or.). Of the 25 prints in this collection, 20 show OAC views, 4 capture Corvallis streetscapes, and 1 depicts Mount Hood. One image from this collection that has been digitized and is available online in Oregon Digital depicts the First Presbyterian Church in Corvallis, circa 1910.

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.

Author: Karl McCreary

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.