A portrait of Elda Walker late in life, perhaps in the 1940s or 1950s. Elda was the daughter of Levi C. Walker and Belle Putman Walker, and the granddaughter of Oregon missionaries Elkanah and Mary Richardson Walker. Elda and her sister, Leva, graduated from Pacific University in 1900. Born in 1877 and 1878, they were most likely the first women from Forest Grove to earn a doctoral degree, Elda from the University of Nebraska and Leva from Cornell University. Both Doctorates were in Biology. The sisters taught together at the University of Nebraska and lived together until their deaths in 1970 and 1971.
A portrait of a Belle (or Bell) Putman Walker. Belle spent much of her early life in Forest Grove, Oregon. She was the wife of Levi C. Walker and the daughter-in-law of prominent missionaries Elkanah and Mary Richardson Walker. In the 1880s, Belle Walker worked as an instructor at the Forest Grove Indian School. This hand-colored portrait was taken in Lincoln, Nebraska where her daughter Elda and Leva Walker lived, probably around the 1930s.
An unidentified football player runs with the football. There was information of the back of the photo but the photo has since been cropped and the writing is illegible or missing.
A photo of Samuel T. Walker, son of Elkanah Walker and Mary Richardson Walker, and his wife, Lucy Edith (Mckune) Walker. They are posed with the side-saddle Mary rode on the trip west.
Stone monument for College Hall with metal plaque. The plaque reads 'College Hall Erected 1850 The oldest building in continuous use for educational purposes west of the Rocky Mountains. Tualatin Academy now Pacific University Here were educated men and women who have won recognition throughout the world in all the learned professions. Placed by Multnomah Chapter Daughters of the American Revolution May 12, 1939'.
Photograph of Dr. Cyril K. Gloyn and students in a small class at Pacific University. This photograph was posed, probably in order to use in promotional publications by the university. It likely dates from 1944, which was the last year Cyril Gloyn served as a Professor of Philosophy and Religion. The male student seated on the left is Forest Bump (Pacific University Class of 1942; he later enrolled as a graduate student).
