Elma Marshall Bemis
- Title
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Elma Marshall Bemis
- LC Subject
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Universities and colleges--Faculty
Portraits
Academic libraries
Library employees
- Creator
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Hise Studio
- Description
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Elma Marshall Bemis began working at OSC as an Assistant Instructor in the Circulation Department at the library from 1944 to 1961. She received her Bachelor of Science in 1917 from Phillips University, and her Master of Arts in 1942 from the Colorado State College of Education. She also received a Bachelor of Science from the Denver University Library School in 1944. As an undergraduate and graduate student she studied English. She was born in 1896, in Mankato, Minnesota. Before coming to OSC, she was a teaching fellow at Colorado University and an Assistant in English at Phillips University, as well as a high school teacher. By the time she came to work at OSC, she was widowed with one child. She received a letter in 1954 from the director of libraries explaining that despite being due for a promotion, she would remain an instructor, as she had been for the previous six years. The director explained that given the workload in the department, she needed to stay on as an instructor, despite taking on an increase of work. In 1944, she received $1,800 a year for her salary. By 1961, she was listed as a senior instructor, with a $5,472 yearly salary. She died in 1973.
- Work Type
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photographic prints
photographs
black-and-white photographs
- Date
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1944
- Identifier
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P092:0777
- 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