G. Herbert Root Photograph Collection (P 127)
ca. 1891-1936 (inclusive) 1902-ca. 1905 (bulk)
71 photographs

Scope and Content Note

The collection consists of photos acquired by G. Herbert Root, who attended OAC in the early 1900s. The photos are primarily of students, athletes (football, men and women's basketball, track) and faculty members, taken between 1902 and 1908. Many of the photographs were taken by William G. Emery, a Corvallis studio photographer and 1883 Oregon State graduate.


Arrangement

Arranged numerically by image number (P127:1-71).


Forms

All of the prints are black and white; most are mounted on grey paperboard. Twenty-six photos are "postage stamp" portraits, many of which are unidentified.


Provenance

Photographs P127:1-66 were donated to the Horner Museum in 1985 by Randi M. Root, great-granddaughter of G. Herbert Root. The photographs were transferred to the University Archives in August 1996 and combined with the existing G.H. Root Photograph Colle ction.


Biographical Note

George Herbert Root, of Wasco, Oregon, attended OAC from about 1902 to 1905 as a mechanical engineering and later agriculture student. He was captain of the 1905 football team. Root came from a family of wheat farmers in the Wasco, Oregon, area. His so n, H. Floyd Root, attended OSC about 1931, and two grandsons attended OSU in the early 1960s.


Shelf Locations:

P shelves
12x17 oversize box

Inventory 
1	Portrait of Walter E. Boggs as a child, ca. 1891 (cabinet card photo by Winter Photo Co.,
	   Eugene)
2	Portrait of Norval Niel, Marcola, Oregon, ca. 1925 (photo by Kennel-Ellis, Eugene &
	   Salem)
3	Portrait of Asa Robley, ca. 1930 (photo by Kennel-Ellis)
4	Asa and Evelyn Robley in front of their Corvallis cottage, July 14, 1936
5	Portrait of Essie Adams, ca. 1905
6-7	Portraits of Essie Adams, ca. 1902 (photos by Emery, Corvallis; P127:6 in 12x17
	   oversize box)
8	Portrait of Floyd Williams, ca. 1905 (photo by Emery)
9	Portrait of George von der Hellen, ca. 1905 (photo by Emery)
10	Portrait of David Gellatly, ca. 1905 (photo by Emery)

11	Portrait of Frederick Stimson?, ca. 1905 (photo by Emery)
12	Portrait of Eva Applegate?, ca. 1905 (photo by Emery)
13	Portrait of James McMan, ca. 1905 (photo by Emery)
14	Portrait of Zaphod Thorpe, ca. 1905 (photo by Emery)
15	Portrait of Edna Irvine, ca. 1905 (photo by Emery)
16	Portrait of Edna Buster Bumpskie, ca. 1905 (photo by Gardner, Corvallis)
17	Portrait of John Buster, ca. 1904 (photo by Gardner)
18	Portrait of Kenneth L. Cooper, ca. 1905 (photo by Gardner)
19	Portrait of Joseph Ringo in cadet uniform, ca. 1906 (photo by Gardner)
20	Portrait of Thomas Willard Espy, ca. 1904, Root's Cauthorn Hall roommate (photo by
	   Gardner)

21	Portrait of Harvey Earle Rinehart, ca. 1905 (photo by Gardner)
22	Portrait of Bert Pilkington, ca. 1905 (photo by Gardner)
23	Portrait of Albert B. Bower, ca. 1905

Images 24-49 are "postage stamp" portrait photographs mounted on small backings, ca. 1905
24	Bertie Webber
25	Bessie Smith
26	Ben Miller
27	Mr. Woods
28-49	Unidentified

50	Class of 1904? in front of Mechanical (now Apperson) Hall
51	President Gatch and OAC faculty in front of Mechanical Hall, ca. 1903
52	Football players, William G. Abraham, ____ Gault, ____ Burnough, Albert B. Bower,and Lyman Bundy?, 1902

53	Football players, Bert Pilkington and ____ Laughlin, ca. 1902
54	Football players, ____ Nash, ____Gellatly, ____Thorpe, and Percy A. Cupper?, ca. 1902
55	Portrait of Floyd Williams in track uniform, ca. 1905 (12x17 oversize box)
56	Portrait of Bert Pilkington in football uniform, ca. 1905 (photo by Emery)
57	Portrait of Floyd Williams in football uniform, ca. 1905 (photo by Emery)

58	Portrait of Harvey Earle "Rat" Rinehart in football uniform, ca. 1905 (photo by Emery)
59 	Portrait of the OAC women's basketball team, 1905 (12x17 oversize box; photo by
	   Emery)
60	OAC women's basketball team on steps of a building, 1905
61	Portrait of the OAC women's basketball team, 1904? (photo by Emery)
62	Portrait of the OAC men's basketball team, 1905:
		First row (r-l) - Karl Steiwer; Merrill Moores; Will Trine; Frederick Stimson;
	     	   unidentified; Grover Cate
		Second row (r-l) - Hamon Bilyeu; Harvey Rinehart; Claude Swann; Francis 		   Stokes
63	Bowers in shot put, record 37 ft.; OAC vs. University of Oregon, May 27, 1905 (photo by
	   Emery)
64	Floyd Williams (right) running in a track meet, ca. 1905 (photo by Emery)
65	Claude Swann pole vaulting, ca. 1905 (photo by Emery)
66	Merrill Moores high jumping, ca. 1905 (photo by Emery)

67	OAC cadets (including G. Herbert Root) with artillery in basement of Armory, 1904
68	OAC football team backfield -- Herb Root, Bert Pilkington, Harley Laughlin, and Floyd
	   Williams, 1902 (photo by Emery)
69	OAC football team, 1902
70	OAC vs. Washington Agricultural College in Corvallis, 1903; first game of series (photo
	   by Emery)
71	G. Herbert Root in football uniform, standing on playing field near Armory, ca. 1903
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