Willibald Weniger photographic collection, [ca. 1905]-1930.

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Willibald Weniger photographic collection, [ca. 1905]-1930.

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This collection consists of photographs taken and/or collected by Willibald Weniger. Most of the images are of the Oregon Agricultural College campus and the vicinity around Corvallis, Oregon; physics laboratories and research; and Weniger and his family and friends. Of special note are photographs of the construction of Strand Agricultural Hall (1913) and McAlexander Fieldhouse (1911); the Willamette and Marys Rivers and forests on Marys Peak; floods; and railroads, including the Corvallis and Alsea River Railroad. There are also photographs of the University of Wisconsin campus and Madison as well as other locations where Weniger visited and worked. Many of the images are not identified.

ca. 600 prints and 40 negatives.

Oregon State University Libraries

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Oregon State University Libraries

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University of Wisconsin--Madison

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Weniger, Willibald, 1884-

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Physics professor Willibald Weniger was born in Wisconsin in 1884. He received B.A. (1905), M.S. (1906), and Ph. D. (1908) degrees from the University of Wisconsin. In 1908, he came to Oregon Agricultural College to organize and head the Physics Department. He left OAC in 1914 to work as a physicist for General Electric in Cleveland, Ohio, and returned in 1920 as Physics Department head. He retired from Oregon State College in 1951 and died in Corvallis, Oregon in 1959. Weniger Hall on the OSU c...

Oregon Agricultural College

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Corvallis & Alsea River Railway Company.

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