Bill Reasons Photograph Collection (P 151)
1952-1974
(inclusive); 1958-1973 (bulk)
1.5
cubic feet; approx. 1000 prints, 1400 negatives and 79 color slides
and transparencies
Organization and Arrangement
All images are numbered (P151:1-2198). A few numbers, primarily
portraits, include multiple images. Several images have corresponding
prints or negatives elsewhere in the collection; these references
are noted in the collection inventory. All 4x5 b/w negatives and
color transparencies are stored separately in 4x5 negative boxes.
Forms
The collection primarily consists of approximately 1400 4x5 b/w
negatives (indicated as negative on the inventory) and 1000 b/w
prints. Also included are 96 b/w 120 film negatives, 1 8x10 b/w
film negative, 20 color negatives (120 and 4x5), 18 color prints,
10 4x5 color transparencies, and 69 color slides. Many of the
b/w negatives in the collection do not have accompanying prints.
Historical Note
Photographic services have been provided at OSU since the 1890s.
Emile Pernot was hired by Oregon Agricultural College in 1890
to teach photography and to take photographs for the Experiment
Station. During the 1924/25 academic year, a formal photographic
services unit was established within the Physics Department by
John Garman, a Physics Department faculty member who taught photography
classes and performed photography for other campus departments.
This lab continued to operate as a separate photographic services
unit (primarily for non-instructional uses) through at least the
early 1970s, when the unit was made a part of the Instructional
Resources and Materials Center (IRAM). The Photo Service is currently
a unit within the Communication Media Center, the successor to
IRAM.
Bill Reasons began working at the Oregon State College Photo Service in September 1953. Prior to his appointment, he had served in the U.S. Navy (1946-1948), attended the Northwest School of Photography (1948-1949) and Multnomah Jr. College (1949-1951) in Portland, and worked briefly at the Kennell Ellis Photography Studio in Portland. Reasons supervised the Photo Service until his death on July 20, 1976.
Related Materials
See the Communication
Media Center Photographic Collection (P 119) for other OSU
Photo Service photographs, particularly portraits of faculty members.
Other significant collections containing photographs of faculty
and staff members include the Faculty
and Staff (P 46), News and Communications Services (P 57),
President's
Office (P 92), and Extension and Experiment Station Communications
(P 120) Photographic Collections as well as Harriet's
Collection. The Photo Service Memorabilia Collection file
contains a mockup of a services brochure from approximately 1967.
Shelf Locations
P
shelves (prints, color slides, negatives)
2/2/2
(12x17 & 16x20 oversize boxes)
2/3/9
(4x5 negatives and transparencies)
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