Two women with OAC pillow, 1916.Two women with OAC pillow, 1916.

Two women with OAC pillow, 1916. These two women may be Carolyn Schelling and her close friend Janet MacLean Davison who attended the 1916 OAC summer session together. [OSU Archives - Schelling Scrapbook.]

Carolyn Schelling Scrapbook

1909-1978 (inclusive); 1915-1916 (bulk)
Schelling Pierce, Carolyn Josephine
0.25 cubic feet

Scope and Content Note

This collection consists of a scrapbook compiled by Carolyn Schelling and includes photographs and memorabilia from the Oregon Agricultural College summer session of 1916. The photographs include images of Schelling and her friends, campus buildings and views, the Lady of the Fountain, an OAC pillow, views of Marys Peak and the Willamette River, various summer session activities, and perhaps the home where Schelling lived at 820 S 11th Street. Of particular note is a panoramic postcard print titled "A View of the Country at Corvallis, Oregon" showing a view to the west from about 14th Street of the southern part of the OAC campus and the residential area between Washington and Western Streets and west of 14th Street.

The memorabilia includes a broadside of a moonlight dance given by the Corvallis Women's Club; a Majestic Theater movie schedule; and summer session ephemera. Of particular note are two posters, one for the third annual women's pageant on June 2nd, 1916 and the other for the Corvallis Chatauqua in July 1916.

Biographical Note

Carolyn Josephine Schelling, of Cottage Grove, Oregon, attended the 1916 summer session at Oregon Agricultural College. She married Frank Pierce and was the first married woman school teacher in Portland, Oregon. Teachers were not allowed to be married so she kept her marriage a secret. Not long afterwards, the rule changed and she used her married name. She was an alumna of Oregon College of Education (Western Oregon University).

Provenance

The scrapbook was donated to the OSU Archives in October 1996 by Janet Davison Manning, Schelling's niece, through the Alumni Relations Office.

Shelf Locations

7/1/3/f [12x17 oversize box]
SR 4/1/1/a [23x31 oversize box]

Inventory

(box 1- 12x17 oversize box)

(box 2- 23x31 oversize box)