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).
This parade was probably in honor of President Teddy Roosevelt's visit to the city that day. Seventy-five thousand people lined Portland's streets to see the president and watch the parade.
These OAC women are standing outside the front entrance to the college's first Mechanical Hall. Part of one of the floors of this building was used as a gymnasium.
Aitken was participating in the Waldo Girls versus Town Girls track and field meet. This competition was a precursor to OSU's intramural sports program, which began in 1916.
This building was designed by Albany, OR, architect Charles Burggraf. It was built to provide classrooms and labs for agricultural departments and also included offices for the experiment station.
Members of the Pierian (women) and Jeffersonian (men) literary societies gathered for this picnic at the end of the 1909-10 school year. Although membership in the societies was segregated by gender, they conducted occasional joint meetings and social events. Individuals identified include: Bertha Edwards, Ho Patterson, Mabel Turlay, Mrs. Aitken, F. R. Brown, Keren Davis, Nillie Naill Nickerson, Ress Garrett, McNealy, Fayh Kitchin, Edna Harris Praether, Ruby Elliot, Alice Seedy, S. S. Palmer, Grace Wallace, Carl Herse, Marior Turley, and Mary Cate.
This group of graduates posed on the lawn in front of the Administration Building (Benton Hall) -- women forming the apostrophe and the "1", and the men forming the "0."
According to the OAC catalog, this class was "a course designed to give advanced students of Home Economics training in application of principles of cookery to conditions found in the camp."
Lower campus looking west at Waldo Hall, (Agriculture Hall (Furman Hall), Administration Building (Benton Hall), Paleontology Lab (Chemical Lab), and Apperson Hall.
"The bands' last assembly at the dedication of Corvallis Brewery building in 1887. From left to right: Loren Mason, cymbals; N.P. Briggs, drums; driver of band wagon; E.A. Milner; White; Ed Anderson, clarinet; L. Wilson; Dave Irvine, horn; Jess Houck, alto; Wayman St. Clair; J. Mason; N.R. Barber. The back of photo has handwritten note ""Hunt's Brewery, north on 2nd street at the corner where the U.S. Post Office now stands. The Blacksmith....next on the right was Manual .......restaurant, the small white building at left stood where Montgomery Wards Building now stands. Opposite the Brewery stood Corvallis first grocery store, where the Huston Building (now being remodeled) has stood for many years."""
Class members included Rosa Jacobs (front row center), John B. Elgin (front row right), James K. Weatherford (top row right), Thomas C. Alexander, and Alonzo J. Locke.
Harvey L. McAllister, known as "Pap Hayseed," graduated from OAC in 1897 with a degree in agriculture. He served in the Spanish-American war and then worked as a farmer in Lexington, Oregon. Thomas Edward Palmer was a 1900 graduate of OAC in electrical engineering and served as the leader of the cadet band his senior year.
Burkhart was a member of the Corvallis College Class of 1871 and was from Lebanon, Oregon. He was elected as the Alumni Association’s first vice president after its founding in early 1873. He also served on the college’s board of trustees in 1887 and 1888.
Blacksmithing courses were offered at OAC for "those who desire to learn how to make simple repairs and improvements about the farm and shop" (1909-10 catalog).
This greenhouse complex was part of an expansion of college agricultural facilities that began in 1889. Standing on the right is George Coote, instructor in horticulture. The Administration Building (Benton Hall) is in the background.
Lower campus looking west at the Mitchell Playhouse, Fairbanks Hall, Administration Building (Benton Hall), a water tower, Apperson Hall (Mechanical Hall), and Chemical Lab (Paleontology Lab). The image was used in the 1938 Orange and Black and 1898-1899 OAC Catalog.
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.