Cadets on parade on Main Street (Second Street), Corvallis. View to north includes Second Street from Jefferson to Madison Avenues (especially businesses on east side).

Alexander K. Chapman Photograph Collection (P 235)

ca. 1908-1910
0.3 cubic foot; approx. 50 prints

Scope and Content Note

The Alexander K. Chapman Photograph Collection consists of mounted photographic prints assembled by Chapman as a student at Oregon Agricultural College. Most of the images are individual portraits of OAC students (many made by Gardner) of the Classes of 1909 and 1910. Many of these images were published in the 1909 or 1910 Orange yearbook. The Collection also includes several campus views and images of student groups and unidentified portraits by photographers in Grants Pass, Oregon. Of particular note is an image of an OAC cadet parade in downtown Corvallis.

Biographical Note

Alexander Kesterson Chapman, from Grants Pass, Oregon, graduated from Oregon Agricultural College in 1909 with a degree in electrical engineering.

Provenance

The photographs were donated to the Archives in 1999 by Chapman's daughter, Evelyn Chapman Back.

Shelf Location

P shelves

Inventory

• Campus Views, ca. 1909:
  • View to west from lower campus; Waldo, Education, Benton, and Apperson Halls.
  • Benton Hall.
  • Wilson House (?).
  • Military review on lower campus.
  • Cadets on parade on Main Street (Second Street), Corvallis. View to north includes Second Street from Jefferson to Madison Avenues (especially businesses on east side). View this image.
  • OAC Cadets in camp at the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific
  • Exposition in Seattle, June 5-9, 1909.

• Student groups, ca. 1909:
  • Football players (Class of 1909 team?)
  • Group of women outdoors (all wearing hats) (literary society?)

• Senior Portraits (in cap and gown):
  • Currin, Linnie, 1909; published in 1910 Orange, p. 70.
  • Luse, Fred Deininger, 1909; published in 1910 Orange, p. 79.
  • Stone, Cedric Hiram, 1909; published in 1910 Orange, p. 86.
  • Williams, Pearl Irene, 1909; published in 1910 Orange, p. 90.

• Individual Portraits (identified):
  • Brown, Frank Ross.
  • Clark, Roy, 1908, published in 1909 Orange.
  • Cross, George A., 1908, published in 1909 Orange.
  • Gilkey, Beulah, 1908, published in 1909 Orange.
  • Gilkey, Helen, ca. 1909.
  • Hall, Sylvester B., 1908, published in 1909 Orange.
  • Hall, S.B., 1908, Track Team Captain; published in 1910 Orange, p. 288.
  • Hudson, E.A., 1907.
  • Hull, Charles D., 1908; published in 1909 Orange.
  • L?, Emma; photograph by Peterson in Tacoma.
  • Marsh, Harold D., 1909; published in 1910 Orange, p. 115.
  • Province, Irving, 1909; published in 1910 Orange, p. 118.
  • Soi, Mula R., 1908; published in 1909 Orange.
  • Tiffany, Jesse A., 1908; published in 1909 Orange.
  • Wilson, F.J.
  • Wilson, Sinclair A., 1909; published in 1910 Orange, p. 128.

• Individual Portraits (unidentified):
  • Made by Grants Pass, Oregon, photographers(6 prints).
  • Made by Gardner (of Corvallis) and unknown photographers (14 prints).