Hutchison Studio Image Collection
Title
Hutchison Studio Image Collection
Description
The database includes 690 photographs taken by Ralph Raymond Hutchison. Hutchison was raised on a farm near Endicott, Washington. As a professional photographer, he later operated studios in: Endicott, LaCrosse, Pullman, and Moscow Idaho. In the course of his work as the photographer for the WSU yearbook, the Chinook, he attended many campus events such as dances, parties, fraternity and sorority dances, banquets, and teas. The campus of Washington State University (including campus architecture, sporting events, campus activities, and administrators) is extensively documented, as is the city of Pullman and the surrounding Palouse communities. The collection records the changes on the campus of WSU and in rural communities between the 1920s and the 1950s. Agricultural photographs trace the shift from the use of horses in harvesting to modern combines. New technologies are also represented: the arrival of the first model T, the introduction of electric washers and dryers. Though many of the photographs depict the town and farms of the Palouse region of southeastern Washington and northern Idaho, neighboring geographic areas are also represented.
Contributor
Alex Merrill (WSU)
Trevor Bond (WSU)
First Car-Load of Cars shipped to Endicott.
Men stand on a horse drawn Rhodes Harvester.
A waterfall along the Columbia Highway.
Pullman City Hall and fire station.
The exterior of the Hutchison Studio (now Swilly's cafe).
A tramway on the Snake River.
The Jordan Families' portrait.
Print shop, later the home of the First National Bank.
A waterfall in the Palouse River near the Whitman county line.
The exterior of the Hutchison Studio during winter.
Eleanor Roosevelt riding in an open car.
A group of fans hold color coded cards to form a 'W' in the stands.
Bryan Hall Auditorium.
Butch Meeker and another man in football gear pose for a picture.
Cars stopped at a railroad crossing as a train of logs rolls through.
A photo of Ralph Raymond Hutchison.
A car wtih an endorsement in the Cherry Blossom Festival, Lewiston.
People enjoying the Palouse river.
Hay, Washington in 1910
A waterfall in the Palouse River near Whitman county line.
Men working on a power plant.
A derailed train in Endicott, Washington.
Pullman Christian Church.
A waterfall in the Palouse River near Whitman county line.
The First National Bank building Main Stree Pullman.
Men fishing on the Palouse river while women watch.
The Hutchisons at play.
Governor Hartley giving a speech.
Fred Shultz's home.
A waterfall in the Palouse River near Whitman country line.