Historical Images of Oregon State University

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1. Mary Graham, Rose Russell, Farnie Irvin and Mattie Graham
Mary Graham, Rose Russell, Farnie Irvin and Mattie Graham
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All four of these Corvallis young women attended Corvallis College as preparatory students between 1866 and 1868. Rose Russell married Lewis F. Wilson in 1869; their son, Eddy, graduated from the college in 1889 and was a longtime member of the board of regents.
2. View of Main Street, Corvallis
View of Main Street, Corvallis
Description
This view of what is now Second Street in Corvallis is one of the first images taken of its business district, and was taken around the time that Corvallis College received permanent designation as the state’s land grant institution. Corvallis’ 1870 population was estimated to be 1,200.
3. Sarah Latimer Finley
Sarah Latimer Finley
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Sarah Finley was the daughter of a minister in the Methodist Episcopal Church, South. Despite health concerns that precipitated the Finleys’ return to California in 1872, she lived to be 89 years old, passing away in 1937. Finley was a leader of the suffrage movement in Sonoma County, California. Thomas Houseworth & Co. was one of the leading photography studios in San Francisco in the 1870s and 1880s.
4. Portrait of George F. Burkhart
Portrait of George F. Burkhart
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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.
5. Portrait of James Davis Fountain
Portrait of James Davis Fountain
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Fountain was a member of the Corvallis College Class of 1871 and was from Jacksonville, Oregon.
6. Portrait of James K. P. Currin
Portrait of James K. P. Currin
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Currin was a member of OSU's first graduating class in 1870. This is likely his senior portrait, taken at the same time as the graduating class photo.
7. Corvallis College class of 1872
Corvallis College class of 1872
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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.
8. Benjamin Lee Arnold portrait made in Winona, Mississippi, circa 1875
Benjamin Lee Arnold portrait made in Winona, Mississippi, circa 1875
Description
Benjamin Lee Arnold was named the second president of Corvallis College in the summer of 1872 by the bishops of the Methodist Episcopal Church South, and he arrived in Corvallis that September. During Arnold's twenty-year presidency, one of his greatest achievements was starting the State Agricultural Association with the intent to construct a suitable building for school purposes.
9. William F. Dixon
William F. Dixon
10. Cadets and Corvallis College building, circa 1875
Cadets and Corvallis College building, circa 1875
Description
Cadet corps in line by the original Corvallis College building. Men do not have uniforms at this time. Cadets probably holding Civil War era long M1863 Springfield rifled muskets, surplus from the US Military. The building in the background is the original building that would become OAC. The college was originally located in downtown Corvallis on the block where City Hall and the Corvallis Moose Lodge are currently located. The first college building was a structure built in 1858 and added onto in 1876.