Guide to the Willetta Moore Photograph Album 1913-1930

Overview of the Collection

	Repository Name:		Oregon State University Libraries University Archives 121 The Valley Library Oregon State University Corvallis, OR 97331-4501 Phone: 541-737-2165 Email: archives@oregonstate.edu Web: http://osulibrary.oregonstate.edu/archives
	Collection Number:		P 269
	Creator:		Smith, Willetta Moore, 1894-
	Title:		Willetta Moore Photograph Album
	Dates:		1913-1930 (inclusive) 1913-1916 (bulk)
	Quantity:		0.2 cubic foot, including 139 photographs 2 boxes, including 1 oversize box
	Languages:		Materials in English.
	Summary:		The Willetta Moore Photograph Album consists of images assembled by Moore during her student years at Oregon Agricultural College in 1913-1916. Willetta Moore, from Eugene, Oregon, graduated in 1916 with a degree in home economics and taught foods and nutrition at Oregon State.

Biographical Note

Willetta Moore, from Eugene, Oregon, attended Oregon Agricultural College from 1913 until 1916, when she earned a BS degree in home economics. After working for the Eugene School Board, she was an instructor in foods and nutrition at Iowa State College and earned an MS degree in foods and nutrition from Iowa State in 1925. Moore returned to Oregon and served as an instructor in foods and nutrition from 1925 to 1932 and again in the mid-1940s. Moore married John E. Smith in 1932; she died in Corvallis in 1977.

Content Description

The Willetta Moore Photograph Album consists of images assembled by Moore during her student years at Oregon Agricultural College in 1913-1916. The album includes snapshots and several photographic postcards; a few of the images have captions and dates. The images reflect her social activities with other students and include many interior views of Waldo Hall, where she resided, and campus views from Waldo Hall. Of special note are images of outdoor pageants and processions; outings, cookouts, and picnics, including an excursion to Newport; canoeing; Junior Flunk Day; women playing tennis; a July Fourth parade float; and graduates at commencement activities. The album includes many images of women students, including one of a group of women wearing bandages on their upper arms apparently after receiving vaccinations with the caption "preparedness".

This collection also includes a book co-authored by Moore, Food Purchasing for the Home by Ruetta Day Blinks (Iowa State College) and Moore published by J.B. Lippincott in 1930 as one of Lippincott's Home Manuals.

Administrative Information

Acquisition Information

The photograph album and book were transferred to the Archives by the OSU Foundation on behalf of her son-in-law, Charles McDougald.

Use of the Collection

Restrictions on Access

Collection is open for research.

Preferred Citation

Willetta Moore Photograph Album (P 269), Oregon State University Archives, Corvallis, Oregon.

Related Information

Related Materials

Some of the photographs published in the book and many other images of foods taken and assembled by Willetta Moore are part of Harriet's Collection (HC 2340). Other photographs of the Oregon Agricultural College campus, students, and student activities are part of many collections in the OSU Archives. The Archives' collections include many photograph albums and scrapbooks assembled by Oregon Agricultural College students during the 1910s including the Marshall S. Wright Photograph Album (P 276) (text/html) , A. Freeman Mason Scrapbook (text/html) , Francis and Lois Wilson Neer Photograph Album (P 206) (text/html) , and Thayer Raymond Collection (text/html) .

Subjects

Oregon Agricultural College--Buildings.

Oregon Agricultural College--Students.

College buildings--Oregon--Corvallis.

College students--Oregon--Corvallis.

Food--Handbooks, manuals, etc.

Grocery shopping--Handbooks, manuals, etc.

Home economics students--Oregon--Corvallis.

Student activities--Oregon--Corvallis.

Women--Oregon--Corvallis

Photograph albums.

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