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A Photographic History of Oregon State University

Canning Berries in the Horticultural Products Canning Lab, ca. 1920

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1. OAC Professor of Bacteriology Theodore Beckwith in His Lab, ca. 1913 OAC Professor of Bacteriology Theodore Beckwith in his lab, ca. 1913. The Bacteriology Department worked closely with other departments, such as Dairy Husbandry and Poultry Husbandry, on Experiment Station research projects. Beckwith was a member of the OAC faculty and chair of the Bacteriology Department from 1912 to 1919. He authored several Extension and Experiment Station publications. He later served as chair of UCLA’s Department of Bacteriology. (HC 949)
2. Canning Berries in the Horticultural Products Canning Lab, ca. 1920
3. School of Forestry Tree Nursery, 1925
4. Brush Mower Developed by the School of Forestry, ca. 1939
5. Participants in the Oregon Dairy Industries Meeting at Oregon State College Judging Ice Cream, February 1953
6. Physics Professors David Nicodemus and Richard R. Dempster Work with OSC’s Cyclotron, ca. 1954 Physics Professors David Nicodemus and Richard R. Dempster work with OSC’s cyclotron, ca. 1954. Nicodemus joined the Oregon State faculty in 1950 after receiving his doctorate at Stanford, where he worked on establishing its cyclotron. During World War II he worked on the Manhattan Project at Los Alamos, and participated in the detonation of the first nuclear device at the Trinity site in 1945. Dempster came to Oregon State in 1944 after earning his doctorate at the University of California, Berkeley, in 1942. While at Cal, Dempster worked in Ernest O. Lawrence’s Radiation Lab. Lawrence developed the first cyclotron at the University of California in 1932. (P25:2888)
7. Biochemist Wil Gamble in the Lab, ca. 1965
8. Researcher in an entomology lab, Cordley Hall, ca. 1968
9. OSU Antarctic Station, 1974 OSU Antarctic Station, 1974. OSU oceanographers studied Antarctic under-ice water temperature, currents and salinity as part of a National Science Foundation research grant. The four-member team lived in one of the ten feet by twelve feet huts in the photo; the other served as their workspace. In September and October 1974, the crew experienced air temperatures with a wind chill of more than minus 100 degrees Fahrenheit. This photo first appeared in the January 1975 Oregon Stater. (P57:4948)

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1. YMCA, Y Hut, ca. 1920
2. Celebrating OSC's Victory over NYU, 1928 Coach Paul Schissler (left) and football team member Howard Maple receiving a trophy from Portland Mayor George Baker, celebrating OSC's victory over New York University, 1928. Oregon State concluded an up-and-down season in 1928 by traveling 3,000 miles to play the much heralded New York University Violets in Yankee Stadium on Thanksgiving Day, November 29. The 25-13 Beaver victory, considered one of college football's biggest upsets of the season, was called "one of the prettiest games of the year to watch" by a New York sportswriter. On the team's return trip, crowds at LaGrande, Pendleton, The Dalles, Portland and Corvallis greeted the victors. The trophy awarded by Mayor Baker was inscribed, "To Oregon State College by the citizens of Portland presented in commemoration of the football victory, Oregon State College over New York University Yankee Stadum, New York O.S.C. 25 - N.Y.U. 13 November 29, 1928 (HC 918)
3. Residents in the Margaret Snell Hall Living Room, ca. 1925
4. Canning Berries in the Horticultural Products Canning Lab, ca. 1920
5. School of Forestry Tree Nursery, 1925
6. Coach Paul Schissler Receiving a Trophy Celebrating OSC's Victory Over New York University, 1928 Coach Paul Schissler (left) and football team member Howard Maple receiving a trophy from Portland Mayor George Baker, celebrating OSC's victory over New York University, 1928. Oregon State concluded an up-and-down season in 1928 by traveling 3,000 miles to play the much heralded New York University Violets in Yankee Stadium on Thanksgiving Day, November 29. The 25-13 Beaver victory, considered one of college football's biggest upsets of the season, was called "one of the prettiest games of the year to watch" by a New York sportswriter. On the team's return trip, crowds at LaGrande, Pendleton, The Dalles, Portland and Corvallis greeted the victors. The trophy awarded by Mayor Baker was inscribed, "To Oregon State College by the citizens of Portland presented in commemoration of the football victory, Oregon State College over New York University Yankee Stadium, New York O.S.C. 25 - N.Y.U. 13 November 29, 1928 (HC 918)
7. Rockne at OAC Summer Session Coaching School, ca. 1927
8. Dean Ava Milam and Graduate Student Caroline Chen, ca. 1927 Dean Ava Milam and graduate student Caroline Chen, ca. 1927. Chen, who was from Peking (now Beijing), was one of the first home economics graduate students from China to attend Oregon State. Milam developed strong relationships with many Pacific Rim countries, including China, Korea, and Japan, and many students came to Oregon State because of her work in those countries. (MSS – Ava Milam Clark Papers)
9. Class reunion attendees, June 1926 Class reunion attendees, June 1926. Class reunions became popular in the 1920s, and were often planned to be close to commencement. This reunion tent hosted members of graduating classes from 1904 through 1907. They were viewing “old time pictures and mementoes.” The alumni included (from left) A.G. Bouquet, Anne Ewing Wayson, Harry Auld, Minette Phillips Espy, Phillip Gearhart, Madeline Nichold, Sam Graf, Fred Roth, Floyd Rowland, Harold G. Rumbraugh, Letha Rickard Porter, and Fred Ewing. The Golden Jubilee Reunion, the Alumni Association’s primary reunion, brings together members of the graduating class from fifty years ago. (HC 1102)
10. Local Business Exposition, 1929