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1. Campus view, 1899

Campus view, 1899

Description: 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.

2. OAC Station Building

OAC Station Building

Description: This building was constructed in 1892 to accommodate the offices of the Agricultural Experiment Station. The station's chemistry lab was in the basement. Since 1973 it has served as the Women's Center.

3. Students in an OAC Chemistry class posing outside of the Station Building

Students in an OAC Chemistry class posing outside of the Station Building

Description: The building included a chemistry lab in the basement. The building later served as the paleontology lab and today is the Women's Center.

4. Oregon Agricultural College building montage

Oregon Agricultural College building montage

Description: Composite cyanotype photograph of Oregon Agricultural College buildings. Buildings shown starting at the top left are: Mechanical Hall, Fairbanks Hall and The Greenhouses. View of campus with Benton Hall in background. Women's Center Building (Station Building), Alpha Hall, The Farm and Benton Hall in the center of photo

5. Oregon Agricultural College students on the steps of the Station Building (now the Women's Center Building)

Oregon Agricultural College students on the steps of the Station Building (now the Women's Center Building)

Description: Fred Buchanan, Brady Burnett, Edward Getty Emmett, and Erma Laurence have been identified.

6. An OAC chemistry class posing at the foot of the Chemistry Building, 1892

An OAC chemistry class posing at the foot of the Chemistry Building, 1892

Description: This chemistry class is shown on the steps of the new Chemistry Building (also known at the time as the Laboratory or Station Building; now known as the Women's Center) soon after its completion in early 1892. According to the 1891-92 catalog, the new building had "thirty students' working desks, each of which is supplied with water, gas, and drawers with shelves for the necessary re-agents and apparatus." All students at the college were required to take chemistry during their first and second years, four terms for Agriculture and Mechanics students, and three terms for Home Economics students. G. W. Shaw (with large mustache at far left in top row wearing dark suit and tie) joined the college faculty as a Professor of Chemistry and Physics in the 1891-1892 academic year and taught at OAC until 1900.

7. "OAC Chemical Laboratory", (Women's Center Building), circa 1895

"OAC Chemical Laboratory", (Women's Center Building), circa 1895

8. Composite group portrait of the OAC class of 1897

Composite group portrait of the OAC class of 1897

Description: The class motto was "Ambition has no rest." Identified are: William T. Johnson, William H. Schmidt, Louise M. Barnett, Carrie A. Lyford, Edwin J. Hufford, Harvey L. McAllister, Ina I. Barclay, Emma Martyn, Charles E. Small, J. Wallace Harrison, Charles R. Porter, Charles O. Taylor, Clarence L. Bump, William F. Groves, Herbert J. Elliott, Ralph W. Terrell, and Robert E. Golden.