OSU Special Collections & Archives' photostream  

About the OSU Archives
We've been here since February 14th, 2009 and we could not be happier to be part of the Flickr Commons!


OSU Archives on Flickr?
For nearly a hundred and fifty years, Oregon State University has been guided by a three-fold mission of research, teaching, and serving the our communities. We like to think broadly when we think of the word “community”-- our neighbors are local, national, and international-- and our position as one of only two American universities to hold the Land Grant, Sea Grant, Space, and Sun Grant designation allows us to think up, down, and all around. We are also a Carnegie Doctoral/Research-Extensive university, and nationally known for our top tier programs in Engineering, Environmental Sciences, Forestry, and Pharmacy, which means that the students and faculty at OSU do a lot of research and writing. To learn more, please visit the “OSU Archives on Flickr” page.

The University’s rich heritage is reflected in our great archival collections, and we are thrilled to use Flickr to give you a peek into some of the images in our photographic collections pertaining to the history of forestry and natural resources in the Pacific Northwest. Hopefully, you’ll like what you see and will want to know more-- or you might find out that you already know more and want to share! In either case, please contact us with questions, ideas, or information at archives@oregonstate.edu.


OSU Archives in the Commons
What will you find in the OSU Archives Commons page? In February 2009, we entered the Flickr Commons with a variety of images from one of our newest collections, the papers of Dr. Gerald W. Williams. This collection includes more than 24,000 images in a variety of formats, photographic prints, postcards, stereographic images, and glass lantern slides. As time has progressed, however, we have begun to share the immense history of our university and the state as a whole through a number of different photographic groups. Today we host images ranging from Harold Frodsham’s shots of lumber mills across the state to the 1905 Lewis and Clark Centennial Exposition and everything in between. We’ve even partnered with Oregon 150, an organization devoted to promoting Oregon during its sesquicentennial, by displaying 150 historic images of Oregon’s fifteen distinct basins in our “Oregon 150 Basins” collection. While our collections on Flickr are beginning to become quite expansive, we’ve only just begun.


Like What You See?
Feel free to check out our other Flickr account. You’ll find some of the OSU Archives’ other historic photographic holdings, behind the scenes shots of the Archives in action, and even people, places, and events that are making history at OSU right now. Check out our fledgling group “What did you see, Where did you go: History in the Making,” which is devoted to capturing current events at OSU and around Corvallis—who knows what might someday be “history”?


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