OAC SATC radio training on campus, WWI, circa 1916
- Title
- OAC SATC radio training on campus, WWI, circa 1916
- LC Subject
- Military cadets Military education Radio College buildings United States. Army. Students' Army Training Corps United States. Army--Non-commissioned officers
- Creator
- Oregon State University. Reserve Officers Training Corps
- Description
- Contemporary reprint of an early field radio training session with OAC Cadets. Shows the early style wireless radio with cadets and training non-commissioned officer. Uniforms are pre-WWI vintage based on Puttees issued. The caption on reverse in older fountain pen states: "Field Radio - or wireless Oregon Agricultural College, Corvallis." The dating in pencil of about 1915-16 is added later, as is the Department of Information, Oregon State University stamp. This type of radio equipment was in use in the pre-WWI years. The Signal Corps Company of OAC included this training on campus. Notes on reverse of photograph are concerning the buildings in the background: "Note: Dairy (Soc. Sc.), 2 white frame building the larger of which should be part of Alpha hall; daeke(?) frame house (SPE)."
- Work Type
- photographic prints photographs
- Location
- Corvallis >> Benton County >> Oregon >> United States
- Date
- 1916 circa
- Identifier
- P002:289
- Rights
- No Copyright - United States
- Local Collection Name
- Oregon State University Military Photographs Collection, 1875-1975 (P 002)
- Type
- Image
- Format
- image/tiff
- Set
- Historical Images of Oregon State University OSU Special Collections & Archives Research Center
- Primary Set
- OSU Special Collections & Archives Research Center
- Is Part Of
- Series 2: World War One, 1916-1918
- Institution
- Oregon State University
