Nellie Lyle
- Title
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Nellie Lyle
- LC Subject
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Universities and colleges--Faculty
Portraits
Oregon State College. Federal Cooperative Extension Service
- Description
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Nellie Catherine Lyle was a Home Demonstration Agent from 1939 to 1947. She was born in 1913 in Glendale, Arizona. After completing work at University of California, Los Angeles, University of California, Berkeley, and OSC, she received a Bachelor of Arts in Home Economics from the Arizona State Teacher’s College in 1936. She received her Master of Science from OSC in 1939 in household administration. Her thesis was titled Normative Study of Growth and Development of 1938-1939 Oregon State College Home Management House Infants. During her final year of school, she worked as a graduate assistant in the Home Management House. In addition, she had five years’ cumulative experience teaching elementary school and home making in Arizona. She also co-led a 4-H home economics club. In 1947, her superiors at OSU planned to arrange sabbatical leave for her so she could take on research in additional areas, thereby allowing her to become an extension specialist in housing or home management, as they expected rural families’ needs for housing information to increase considerably. They expressed that she showed a “marked ability” for the field. Instead, she chose to resign later in the year to be married, at which point she was earning a salary of $3,456.
- Work Type
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photographic prints
photographs
black-and-white photographs
- Date
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1939-01
- Identifier
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P092:0324
- Rights
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In Copyright
- Local Collection Name
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President's Office Photographs, 1923-1998 (P 092)
- Type
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Image
- Format
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image/tiff
- Set
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OSU Special Collections & Archives Research Center
Historical Images of Oregon State University
- Primary Set
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OSU Special Collections & Archives Research Center
- Institution
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Oregon State University