Willamette University Student Life Glass Plate Negatives
Scope and Contents
These glass plate negatives were taken in the early 1920s and document the Willamette University campus and student life. The collection contains images of the Kimball College of Theology, Eaton Hall, and Waller Hall. Most of the images feature students and campus activities, including sorority and fraternity life and rituals and theater performances. The collection also contains snapshots of students. Based on the overlap of individuals featured, subject matter, and style of the images, the glass plate negatives were presumably taken by Vernor Martin Sackett, who graduated from Willamette University in 1922, and whose collection of over 800 personal negatives and glass plate negatives have a separate collection in the Mark O. Hatfield Library Archives.
Dates
- circa 1920
Creator
- Sackett, Vernor Martin, 1898-1965 (Person)
Language of Materials
Materials are in English.
Conditions Governing Access
This collection is open to researchers.
Conditions Governing Use
Library acts as “fair use” reproduction agent.
For further information, see the section on copyright in the Regulations and Procedures of the Willamette University Archives and Special Collections.
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Biographical Note
Vernor Martin Sackett was born in Jefferson, Oregon in 1898 and graduated from Willamette University in 1922. Next to his portrait in the school yearbook, The Wallulah, is the comment “He owns a whole flock of cameras that won’t eat anything but embarrassing situations. Sings a deep ’sonorous’ bass, sells pictures, trades kodaks….”
Vernon died in 1965 and was survived by his wife, Mary Notson Sackett, sister of Robert Notson.
Extent
.5 Linear Feet (1 box)
Overview
This collection of glass plate negatives features the Willamette University campus and student life in the early 1920s. They were probably taken by Vernor Martin Sackett, who graduated from Willamette University in 1922.
Physical Location
Mark O. Hatfield Library
Custodial History
The overlap of individuals featured, subject matter, and style suggest that these images were created by Vernor Martin Sackett.
Existence and Location of Copies
These glass plate negatives have been digitized and are available online as part of the Vernor Martin Sackett negatives.
Physical Description
18 glass plate negatives
- Delta Phi
- Dimick, Ramon
- Eaton Hall (Willamette University)
- Gillette, Clarence
- Greek letter societies -- Oregon
- Kimball School of Theology
- Notson, Mary, 1898-1986
- Pratt, Sadie
- Sackett, Sheldon Fredrick, 1902-1968
- Salem (Or.)
- Sigma Tau Fraternity
- Student Life
- Waller Hall (Willamette University)
- Willamette University
Creator
- Sackett, Vernor Martin, 1898-1965 (Person)
- Title
- Guide to the Willamette University Student Life Glass Plate Negatives, circa 1920
- Status
- Completed
- Author
- Finding aid processed by Bronte Dod.
- Date
- © 2015
- Description rules
- Dacs
- Language of description
- Undetermined
- Script of description
- Code for undetermined script
- Language of description note
- Finding aid written in English.
Repository Details
Part of the Willamette University Archives and Special Collections Collection Descriptions
Mark O. Hatfield Library
900 State Street
Salem Oregon 97301 United States
archives@willamette.edu