Guide to the State College of Washington Department of Architectural Engineering Lantern Slides 1927-1941
PC 25

Summary Information

Repository
Washington State University Libraries, Manuscripts, Archives and Special Collections
Creator
State College of Washington. Department of Architectural Engineering
Title
State College of Washington Department of Architectural Engineering Lantern Slides
ID
PC 25
Date [inclusive]
1927-1941
Extent
0.5 Linear feet of shelf space, 1 Box
Language
Collection materials are in English.
Abstract
Instructional lantern slides depicting missions in the northwest, housing in the Seattle area, and State College of Washington campus plans and selected buildings in Pullman, Washington.

Preferred Citation

[Item description]

State College of Washington Department of Architectural Engineering Lantern Slides, 1927-1941 (PC 25)

Manuscripts, Archives, and Special Collections, Washington State University Libraries, Pullman, WA.

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Biography/History

Stanley Albert Smith was born in Brookville, Kansas November 25, 1889. He attended Kansas State College where he earned his Bachelor of Arts degree in 1913, and immediately became an instructor at the college from 1913 to 1920. Smith held professor positions at several universities, including North Dakota Agricultural College (later NDSU), 1920-1923, and the State College of Washington (WSC, later Washington State University), 1923-1955.

While at WSC, Smith was the Head of the Department of Architectural Engineering and the second University Architect, from 1923-1947. While University Architect, he completed fourteen major buildings and fraternity houses. These included: Commons Hall, Duncan Dunn Hall, Bohler Gymnasium, Troy Hall, Hollingbery Field House, Honors Hall, Washington Building, Smith Gymnasium, the Mechanical Engineering Laboratory, the Central Steam Plant, Waller Hall, Wilmer-Davis Hall, Pine Manor, and L. J. Smith Hall (Smith Agricultural Engineering Building)." In 1947, the increased load of building work at WSC, Smith resigned as University Architect and concentrated on his position as Head of the Department of Architectural Engineering.

Additionally, Smith took on projects for private homes and commercial buildings in and around the town of Pullman. Many of these projects, both on and off campus, were undertaken by Smith’s private practices: Smith & Rounds in the 1920s during which Fred G. Rounds, an assistant professor of architecture at WSC, worked as Smith’s partner, and Smith & Weller in the 1930s during which Harry C. Weller, also architectural engineering faculty at WSC, worked as Smith’s partner. Occasionally during the 1930s, Smith and Rounds continued to collaborate on projects, including the addition to Pullman High School in the 1930s. This project was undertaken in part through a Public Works Administration [PWA] grant. The addition to the high school was carried out from 1933-1934, less than a year after the passage of the National Industrial Recovery Act which created the PWA.

Following his position at WSC, Smith became the architectural advisor to the Ataturk University Development Committee in Erzurum, Turkey, which in turn advised the Turkish Ministry of Education in the planning of the new university. This development was a joint Turkish-American effort to strengthen education and research in Turkey at the university level at Ankara University and Ataturk University. In 1954 the University of Nebraska was asked to assist with this effort under the university's Agency for International Development (A.I.D.) contract.

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Scope and Content

The collection consists of glass lantern slides depicting photographs plans/drawings of historical buildings of the Pacific Northwest. Glass lantern slides are 3¼"x4" positive glass transparencies, generally intended for projection onto a screen. The slides were apparently intended for instructional use for architecture students. It is unclear how many are reproductions of others' images, and how many are "original" images. The series are comprised of, in order, Pullman materials, a series of mission slides, some materials on commercial buildings and a fort, a series of Seattle-based housing slides (ca. 1940-1941), and finally a few images related to a Buckminster Fuller Dymaxion House.

Based on notes and identifying call numbers written on the slides, we suspect these were once held as instructional materials in the departmental Architecture Library in WSU's Carpenter Hall. A significant number of them are drawn from the work of Stanley A. Smith, WSC's University Architect from 1923 to 1947, but we can't be certain if all of these come from him. Smith is known to have taken photographs and drawings of missions in the region, so many of those, at least, are potentially unique to this collection. Though he apparently never published from them, in December of 1935 Smith did present on campus (complete with illustrated slides) on the history of the Cataldo Mission.

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Arrangement

With some slight tweaking, materials are arranged in an order which matches the call numbers hand-written on the slides. This results in a loose subject-based order of several series and subseries.

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Administrative Information

Publication Information

Washington State University Libraries Manuscripts, Archives, and Special Collections  © 2022

https://libraries.wsu.edu/masc/

Terrell Library

P.O. Box 645610

Pullman, WA, 99164-5610 USA

509-335-6691

mascref@wsu.edu

Restrictions on Access

This collection is open and available for research use.

Restrictions on Use

Copyright restrictions apply.

Acquisition Information

The glass lantern slides in this collection were received at Washington State University Libraries' Manuscripts, Archives, and Special Collections (MASC) at some point in time prior to 2001. They were initially retained without an accession number, and were finally processed in July 2017 by University Archivist Mark O'English. In March of 2018, six slides from Stanley Smith came to MASC via the former architecture chair Dave Scott (UPC 18-02) and were added to the collection.

Processing Information

Sometime after receipt, the glass slides were housed individually in paper sleeves, which were annotated with information (often incorrect) copied from the slides. This is the second MASC collection identified as PC 25 – the earlier PC 25, "Additional Glass Negatives, ca. 1901-1920" was incorporated into PC 23 in 2017.

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Related Materials

Related Material

Stanley A. Smith Papers, 1954-1963 (Cage 138)

Stanley A. Smith Papers, circa 1900-1946 (Cage 875)

Stanley A. Smith Papers, 1924-1943 (Cage 888)

A. E. Drucker House Architectural Drawings, 1927-1928 (Cage 958)

Stanley A. Smith Oral History Interview, 1960 October (Cage 2072)

State College of Washington University Architect Records, 1923-1956 (Archives 239)

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Names and Subjects

Corporate Name(s)

Subject(s) :
  • State College of Washington. Department of Architectural Engineering -- Records and correspondence

Personal Name(s)

Subject(s) :
  • Smith, Stanley Albert, 1889- -- Records and correspondence
Creator(s) :
  • Smith, Stanley Albert, 1889-

Subject(s)

  • Architecture -- Northwest, Pacific -- History
  • Architecture

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Detailed Description of Collection

Series 1: Pullman, WA 

Stanley Smith home, construction, circa 1927-1928. (408 NE Michigan; post-1976 address is 610 NE Michigan) 

slide

Clearing site 

1

Excavation 

2

Basement walls 

3

Framing 1st floor 

4

Finished house 

5

Finished house 

6

Floorplan - 1st floor 

7

Floorplan - 2nd floor 

8
slide

Alpha Delta Pi (725 NE Linden) 

9

Pi Beta Phi (825 NE Linden) 

10

Catholic Church (440 NE Ash St) 

11

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Series 2: Missions 

St. Joseph's Mission, Slickpoo, ID. 

slide

Altar 

12

Sunday House 

13

Window detail 

14

Front entrance 

15

Sunday Houses? 

16

St. Mary's Mission, Stevensville, MT. Father Ravalli, architect, under Father DeSmet. Built 1841, closed 1850. 

slide

Front left view 

17

Front view 

18

St. Michael's Mission, Spokane, WA. Built 1866-1878. (19-20 and 22-23 appear to be different churches. It is unclear which church image 21 belongs to.) 

slide

Front right view. 

19

Detail over door. Carfagno carvings. 

20

Internal. Carfagno carvings. 

21

Front right view. Carfagno carvings. 

22

Architectural drawings, Stanley Smith & Harry Weller. "St. Michael's Mission at Peone Prairie, Wash." 

23

Sacred Heart Mission, St. Joe River, 1842. Fathers Point & DeSmet. 

slide

External view 

24

Sacred Heart Mission, Cataldo, ID. Ravalli, architect. Built 1846. 

slide

Detail - external wall and window 

25

Drawing by Stevens Expedition 

26

Side and back view 

27

Sacristy detail 

28

Front view 

29

Interior 

30

Architectural drawings, Stanley Smith & Harry Weller. "Old Indian Mission." 

31

Sacred Heart Mission, Tensed, ID. Built 1878. 

slide

Front view, through trees. 

32

Whitman Mission Site, Waiilatpu, WA 

slide

Distant view 

33

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Series 3: Businesses & Forts 

Cashup Davis store, Cashup, WA. [Note: this is the store, built at Cottonwood Springs / Cashup in the late 1870s, not the Steptoe Butte hotel] 

slide

Floor plans, Stanley Smith & Harry Weller. "James S. 'Cashup' Davis's Store, Cashup, Wash." 

34

Front and left view 

35

Side view 

36
slide

Fort Lapwai - detail of beam intersections 

37

Granary, Hudson Bay Post, Nisqually, WA 

slide

End view 

38

Front view 

39

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Series 4: Housing 

Westpark Housing, Bremerton, WA. Built 1940. 

slide

Homes 

40

Homes 

41
slide

Typical floor plan, Edmond Meany Hotel, Seattle, WA 

42

Sand Point Homes, Seattle, WA 

slide

Homes 

43

Composite plans of typical single-floor units 

44

The plot plan capitalizes a sloping terrain 

45

Homes 

46

Yesler Terrace Housing, Seattle, WA. Built 1939-1941. 

slide

Plot plan 

47

Aerial neighborhood photograph 

48

Side view, housing unit 

49

Dymaxion House, R. Buckminster Fuller design. 

slide

Front view 

50

Interior view 

51

Interior view 

52

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Series 5: Washington State College development 

slide

Campus aerial photo, 1921 

53

Campus aerial photo, circa 1932 

54

Campus plan, circa 1923 

55

Campus plan, circa 1927 

56

Campus plan, circa 1944 

57

Campus plan, circa 1947 

58

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