Esther Allen, 1939

Title: Esther Allen, 1939
LC Subject: Universities and colleges--Faculty Portraits Library employees
Description: Esther Allen was a general assistant and instructor for the library in 1939. Her salary was $1200 and her term of service was 12 months. She was born in 1904, in Parsons, Kansas. When she came to work for OSC, she listed that she was from Vancouver, Washington. Before coming to work at OSC, she was a librarian at Pacific College. She left her previous library position because the college she worked for was unable to pay her full salary. She attended Washington State College from 1923 to 1926, Willamette University from 1923 to 1924, University of Oregon from 1927 to 1931, and she received her Bachelor of Arts in 1926 from Washington State College and her Bachelor of Science in Library Science from the University of Denver in 1936. As an undergraduate she studied French and Spanish and music, and as a graduate she studied education and library science. She was brought on to work at Oregon State as a substitute for another librarian, “Miss Haley”, who was taking a leave of absence.
Work Type: photographic prints photographs black-and-white photographs
Date: 1939-02
Identifier: P092:0071
Rights: In Copyright
Local Collection Name: President's Office Photographs, 1923-1998 (P 092)
Type: Image
Format: image/tiff
Set: OSU Special Collections & Archives Research Center Historical Images of Oregon State University
Primary Set: OSU Special Collections & Archives Research Center
Institution: Oregon State University