Guide to the Will Photographs & Postcards 1891-1921
PC 125

Summary Information

Repository
Washington State University Libraries, Manuscripts, Archives and Special Collections
Creator
Will, Roy E
Title
Will Photographs & Postcards
ID
PC 125
Date [inclusive]
1891-1921
Date [bulk]
1908-1912
Extent
2 Boxes, 18 Folders, 327 Images
Language
Collection materials are in English.
Abstract
Portraits of Washington State College ca. 1908-1917, accumulated by then-students Roy Will and Jane Atherton Will. Notable is a series of photographs depicting a ROTC training camp at Clarkston, WA, held in 1912.

Preferred Citation

[Item Description] Will Photographs (PC 125)

Manuscripts, Archives, and Special Collections, Washington State University Libraries, Pullman, WA.

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Scope and Content

Roy E Will and Jane (Jennie) E Atherton Will were students at Washington State ca. 1908-1913. Portraits of Washington State College ca. 1908-1912, accumulated by then-students Roy Will and Jane Atherton Will. Notable is a series of photographs depicting a ROTC training camp at Clarkston, WA, held in 1912. While a few images predate or postdate 1908-1912, the bulk of the materials are within that period. Roy Will's parents owned farmland near Harrington, WA, and the majority of the post-1913 farming photos are from that location.

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Arrangement

The scrapbook, associated materials, and acquisition materials are placed at the back of the collection. The remaining materials are organized loosely by place, with an informal alphabetical series of Washington State College files at the beginning, then Pullman materials, then materials further afield.

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Administrative Information

Publication Information

Washington State University Libraries Manuscripts, Archives, and Special Collections  © 2016

http://www.libraries.wsu.edu/masc/

Terrell Library

P.O. Box 645610

Pullman, WA, 99164-5610 USA

509-335-6691

mascref@wsu.edu

Restrictions on Access

This collection is open and available for research use.

Acquisition Information

The Will photographs were gifted to Washington State University's Archives from Donna Setterberg of Portland, OR, granddaughter of Roy E Will and Jane (Jennie) E Atherton Will. They were received at the Archives on May 7, 2009 as UPC 2009-01. Two additional images were received from Donna Setterberg on Nov. 9, 2012, and added to the collection. 187 images, mostly postcards, were received in early 2019.

Processing Information

This collection was processed by University Archivist Mark O'English in May of 2009.

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Related Materials

Related Material

One notebook of fabrics and writings was removed from the collection for separate processing as Cage 4946. This notebook belonged to Jane Atherton Will, and is believed to have been from a WSC Home Economics course.

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Names and Subjects

Corporate Name(s)

Subject(s) :
  • Washington State College -- History.
  • Washington State University -- History.

Personal Name(s)

Subject(s) :
  • Will, Roy E -- Archives
  • Will, Jane E Atherton (Jennie E Atherton) -- Archives
Creator(s) :
  • Will, Jane E Atherton (Jennie E Atherton)

Subject(s)

  • Universities and colleges -- Washington (State) -- History.
  • Colleges and Universities
  • Washington (State)

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Detailed Description of Collection

box folder

WSC buildings, 1907-1913. (23 images)  

1 1

WSC cadets, students, & crowd scenes, 1908-1917. Inc. one image of visit by "Fighting Bob" Evans, March 19, 1909. (21 images)  

1 2

WSC campus views, 1907-1913. (9 images)  

1 3

WSC football scenes, 1907-1908. (12 images)   

1 4

WSC Foundation Day & Campus Day, 1911-1913. (11 images)  

1 5

WSC to Moscow Mountain outing, ca. 1910-1911. (5 images)   

1 6

WSC ROTC Encampment, Clarkston, WA, 1912. (20 images)   

1 7

WSC, Roy Will, 1909 & 1912. (3 images)  

1 8

Pullman, 1908-1913. (11 images)  

1 9

Pullman & Colfax, flood scenes, 1910. (8 images)  

1 10

Pullman, "flu muzzles," 1918. (1 image)  

1 11

Near Pullman - agricultural scenes, 1910-1913. (10 images)  

1 12

Other locations, 1909-1917. Includes Moscow, Palouse, Yakima River, Medical Lake, UW. (9 images)  

1 13

Roy Will's birthplace: Milton, OR, July 30, 1891. (1 image)   

2 14

Hand-drawn postcards, 1908. (2 images)  

2 15

Scrapbook. Group and campus scenes at WSC, 1913; family and farmland at Harrington, WA, ca. 1915; San Francisco Panama-Pacific International Exposition, 1915. (155 images)   

2 16

Loose scrapbook pages and images: WSC, 1913; Pasadena, 1919; farming at Harrington, WA, 1920-1921. (26 images)   

2 17

Acquisition information, 2009 & 2013. (3 sheets)   

2 18