This view shows several early campus buildings, including (from left) Waldo Hall, the Armory and Gymnasium, Agriculture Hall (now Furman Hall), Benton Hall, and the Mechanical Building (now Kearney Hall).
Taken during the visit of Dr. Liberty Hyde Bailey. Included are James Withycombe (seated far left), E. R. Lake (standing center with hands in pockets), James Robert Cardwell (seated center with white vest), Dr. Bailey (to Cardwell's left), and A. B. Cordley (to Bailey's left. Also in the photo are OAC station chemist Abraham Lincoln Knisely and horticulturists E. L. Prince, E. I. Smith and D. M. Williamson.
Richard Jeffrey Nichols was the librarian at Oregon Agricultural College from 1902 to 1908. A native Oregonian, Nichols was the first librarian not educated at OAC, earning his degree from Willamette University.
Eddy Elbridge Wilson was born in Corvallis in 1869 and was a student at Oregon State when the school was still known as Corvallis College. Later an attorney and bank executive, Wilson was heavily involved with numerous campus and community organizations, as well as the State Game Commission. He died in 1961.
Greer succeeded Margaret Snell as head of the Department of Domestic Science and Art in 1908, and was named the first dean as a result of President Kerr’s academic reorganization of the college. She served until spring 1911. Greer was a graduate of Vassar College and spent ten years as an instructor at New York’s Pratt Institute prior to coming to OAC.
Fred Steiwer graduated from OAC in 1902 with a bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering. He represented Oregon in the United States Senate from 1927 to 1938.
Hoover, an OAC graduate in the Class of 1901, married Jay Bowerman, a future governor of Oregon, and was the mother of University of Oregon track coach and Nike co-founder Bill Bowerman. While at OAC, she played on the women’s basketball team. She returned to OAC to earn a second degree in home economics in 1916, and taught school for a number of years.
James K. Weatherford graduated from Corvallis College in 1872. Admitted to the Oregon Bar in 1876, he was a prominent defense attorney who served on the OAC Board of Regents from 1886-1929, serving as the Board's president from 1901-1929. Weatherford Hall is named is his honor.
The 1907 football team achieved what few other collegiate teams ever have been able to do. It was undefeated, untied and un-scored upon. The team was coached by Fred S. Norcross (back row, right), who had played at the University of Michigan under renowned coach Fielding Yost. Norcross coached the 1906 through 1908 teams, compiling an overall record of 14-4-3. Among the team's six victories in 1907 were wins over Willamette University (42-0), Pacific University (49-0), the University of Oregon (4-0), and west coast powerhouse St. Vincent College (10-0). OAC traveled for the first time to Los Angeles to play St. Vincent on Thanksgiving Day, and with the win, secured the Pacific Coast championship.
John Withycombe was a 1901 graduate of OAC and became a wheat rancher in eastern Oregon. James Withycombe, Experiment Station Director from 1908-1914 and Governor of Oregon from 1915-1919, was his uncle.
Front row-left to right: John Wetty, Lena Belle Tartar, Clay Darby, Kate Daniel. Second row: Guy Moon, Mary Sutherland, Isabella Whitley, Clay Shepard.
Faculty group photo with President Gatch taken around 1904-1905. Front row: Helen V. Crawford, Ida B. Callahan, Thomas H. Crawford, Dennis Patrick Quinlan, Thomas Milton Gatch, Nicholas Tartar, George Coote, Emile F. Pernot, Margaret Constock Snell, ?. Middle row: Helen Louise Holgate, Ernest Chesney Hayward, Gordon Vernon Skelton, James Withycombe, Herald Taillandier, Arthur Burton Cordley, Abraham Lincoln Kinsley, Charles Leslie Johnson, Will Orian Trine, Richard Jeffery Nichols, ?, Frank E. Edwards. Back row: Thomas Bilyeu, Grant Adelbert Covell, Frederick Berchtold, Clarence Melville McKellips, Mark Clyde Phillips, Edward Ralph Lake, John Baptiste Horner, John Franklin Fulton.
This postcard image shows Corvallis looking northwest. The original photograph from which the postcard was made was probably taken from the water tower at First and Adams. Photograph was hand colored.
Corvallis school that faced 6th Street between Madison and Monroe, just east of Central School. It was built in 1903 and moved in 1909 to 18th and Polk Streets. It was then known as North School and later Franklin Elementary School.
Hotel Corvallis was built in 1893 and located on 2nd Street and Monroe. It was later renamed the Julian Hotel after undergoing a major remodeling in 1910/11.
The Lady of the Fountain was a gift of the class of 1902 and constructed shortly after graduation. It was the second class gift presented to OSU in school history and was located on lower campus, just to the west of the intersection of where Madison Street today crosses 9th Street. On January 21, 1929, the statue was found destroyed.
Now known as Fairbanks Hall, this building was constructed in 1892 as a men's dormitory and was originally named Cauthorn Hall. Women lived in the dormitory from 1912 until the early 1930s, when it was converted into a classroom building. The building is now home to the Art Department.
The Octagonal Barn, 1903. The College's first barn, built in 1889, was this octagonal structure. The addition was built in 1892. It served as the heart of the College's 180-acre farm until 1909, when construction of a new barn was completed. In its later years, the Octagonal Barn served the College as a horse barn until it burned in September 1924.