Item from a collection of University of Oregon faculty, students, buildings, organizations, and events. Two women are walking down the front steps of the new Library (The Library, now known as the Knight Library, first opened in 1937). The women are wearing calf-length skirts, with blouses, and jackets. This photograph was shot on Agfa Nitrate Film, an unstable (and flammable) film that was common in the early 20th Century.
Item from a collection of University of Oregon faculty, students, buildings, organizations, and events. Groups of people smiling and walking in groups around campus. The yellow tree leaves and the fallen tree leaves suggest that it is autumn on campus.
Two Native American children, a boy and a girl, sitting outside on a blanket with a backdrop of hung blankets. The boy with a feather in his hair is wearing leggings, a cloth shirt, a necklace, and moccasins. The girl with feathers in her hair is wearing a Wing dress, a necklace, moccasins, and a bracelet.
Five elderly Native American women, identified as members of the Cayuse tribe and "converts of Dr. Marcus Whitman", sit outside a large tent. The women wear headscarves, long skirts, and shawls of woolen fabric, possibly Pendleton blankets. Two of the women hold handkerchiefs in their laps. The names of the women are tentative and have not been verified yet by tribal members.