The Historical Images of Oregon State University repository contains a vast array of OSU related photographs drawn from the more than 600,000 photographs held in the collections of the OSU Libraries' Special Collections and Archives Research Center. Included are iconic images and not so well known images. Almost everything OSU can be found here, from images of the first Corvallis College building in the late 1860s to recent images of buildings, academics, students, research and athletics. New images are continuously being added.

Major archival collections represented here are Harriet's Collection, News and Research Communications Photographs (P 57), Oregon Stater Photograph Collection (P 195), Beaver Yearbook Photographs (P 3), Alumni Relations Photographs (P 17), Gwil Evans Photographic Collection (P 82), the Buildings Photographic Collection (P 16) and the Oregon State University Historical Photographs (P 25).