George Alderson Photographs 1954-1955

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George Alderson Photographs 1954-1955

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The George Alderson Photographs consistof snapshot photographs made by Alderson when he visited Corvallis,Oregon, as a youth in the mid-1950s. The photographs depict views of theOregon State College campus and agricultural lands, Camp Adair, anddowntown Corvallis.

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Oregon State University Libraries University Archives

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Alderson, George

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As a teenager, George Alderson visited his aunt, Lora Ives Kelts, a librarian at Oregon State College. Alderson attended Reed College and graduated in 1963 with a major in biology. Alderson worked in Washington, D.C. as a conservation activist and lobbyist for the Wilderness Society and Friends of the Earth. He helped found the wilderness program in the Bureau of Land Management and wrote a handbook on being a citizen lobbyist, How You Can Influence Congress, published in 1979. He received the S...