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Title: Put Up the Gates Campaign Scrapbook, 1940

ID: MSS PutUpGates

Primary Creator: Oregon State College. Gates and Gardens Committee

Extent: 0.1 cubic feet. More info below.

Languages of Materials: English [eng]

The Put Up the Gates Campaign Scrapbook documents activities to raise funds for installing gates at the entrance to the Oregon State College campus in 1940.

The Put Up the Gates Scrapbook documents activities to raise funds for installing gates at the entrance to the Oregon State College campus in 1940. The scrapbook includes clippings, brochures, and campaign announcements. Information about the Corvallis Garden Pilgrimage in May 1940 is provided in a brochure for the event and newspaper clippings. Several of the newspaper clippings describe the development of campus planning at Oregon State.

Wrought iron gates for the entrance to Oregon State College were constructed in Portland under the supervision of O.B. Dawson as a federal Works Progress Administration (WPA) project and completed in the late 1930s. A campaign was conducted in the spring of 1940 to raise $1500 for installation of the gates. Using the campaign slogan, Put Up the Gates at Oregon State, campus and community leaders sold buttons and solicited cash donations. Proceeds of the second annual Corvallis Garden Pilgrimage in May 1940 supported the campaign. The campaign was successful; the gates were installed at 10th and Madision in 1940 and dedicated in May 1941. In 1953, the gates were moved to 11th and Campus Way.

More Extent Information: 1 oversize box

Statement on Access: Collection is open for research.

Related Materials: Additional material pertaining to the gates are in the OSU Memorabilia Collection (MSS MC) file "MC-Memorial Gates". Architectural drawings for installation of the gates are available in the Facilities Services Records (RG 193). The OSU Memorabilia Collection (MSS MC) also includes extensive materials documenting other WPA (Works Progress Administration) projects at Oregon State.

Preferred Citation: Put Up the Gates Campaign Scrapbook (MSS PutUpGates), Oregon State University Special Collections and Archives Research Center, Corvallis, Oregon.

Oregon State College. Gates and Gardens Committee

Campus planning--Oregon--Corvallis.
College facilities--Oregon--Corvallis.
Dawson, O. B. (Orion Benjamin), b. 1896
Garden tours--Oregon--Corvallis.
Ironwork--Oregon--Corvallis.
Oregon State College
Oregon State College. Gates and Gardens Committee
Public art--Oregon--Corvallis.
University History

Scrapbooks.