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Ernest Cook Photographic Collection, circa 1890-1915
Overview of the Collection
- Creator
- Cook, Ernest (Ernest Sylvester)
- Title
- Ernest Cook Photographic Collection
- Dates
- circa 1890-1915 (inclusive)18901915
- Quantity
- 0.01 cubic foot, including 62 photographs, (1 box)
- Collection Number
- P 221
- Summary
- The Ernest Cook Photographic Collection consists of photographs published in the OSU Research Forests oral history of Wanda Marcks Cook and includes images of the Sulphur Springs Stock Ranch and the Oregon Agricultural College campus in the 1910s. Ernest Cook attended OAC in 1910-1911 and married Wanda Marcks in 1913.
- Repository
-
Oregon State University Libraries, Special Collections and Archives Research Center
Special Collections and Archives Research Center
121 The Valley Library
Oregon State University
Corvallis OR
97331-4501
Telephone: 5417372075
Fax: 5417378674
scarc@oregonstate.edu - Access Restrictions
-
Collection is open for research.
- Languages
- English
- Sponsor
- Funding for encoding this finding aid was provided through a grant awarded by the National Endowment for the Humanities.
Biographical NoteReturn to Top
Ernest Sylvester Cook attended Oregon Agriculture College as a special student in agriculture during the 1910/11 academic year. He married Wanda Marcks in about 1913 and they lived on the Sulphur Springs Stock Ranch until 1922 when they moved to Portland.
Content DescriptionReturn to Top
The collection consists of photographs taken and/or assembled by Ernest Cook and published in the OSU Research Forests oral history, Wanda Marcks Cook: The Story of the Sulphur Springs Stock Ranch. They include images of the Sulphur Springs Stock Ranch, the Cook family, and the OAC campus in the 1910s. Of particular note are images of the library quadrangle that show the Wilson House and Alpha Hall.
The materials are 35 mm b/w copy negatives made from the originals and duplicate prints.
The photographs descriptions are taken directly from the OSU Research Forests oral history, Wanda Marcks Cook: The Story of the Sulphur Springs Stock Ranch, with minor editorial modifications.
Use of the CollectionReturn to Top
Preferred Citation
Ernest Cook Photographic Collection (P 221), Oregon State University Archives, Corvallis, Oregon.
Administrative InformationReturn to Top
Custodial History
These copy negatives and prints were obtained by the Research Forests from Roy Cook, son of Ernest and Wanda Marcks Cook, for use in the Wanda Marcks Cook oral history publication and with Cook's permission were transferred to the OSU Archives.
Related Materials
The published oral history, Wanda Marcks Cook: The Story of the Sulphur Springs Stock Ranch, is available in the Oral History Collection (OH6:12).
Detailed Description of the CollectionReturn to Top
Published Photographs - Un-numbered [arranged by page number, on left in italics]Return to Top
| Container(s) | Description | Dates |
|---|---|---|
| Box | ||
| 1 | Title page: Sulphur Springs Stock Ranch
with Soap Creek and Writsman's Butte in the background
taken from the western side of Lewisburg Saddle looking
east. This photographs was first published in October, 1993 on page 81 of
Chapter B to Comments on the Draft Supplemental
Environmental Impact Statement on Management of Habitat for Late-Successional
and Old-Growth Forest Related Species within the Range of the Northern Spotted
Owl, which was prepared by the Northwest Forest Resources Council,
Portland, Oregon, and the American Forest and Paper Association, Washington,
D.C., as the principal forest industry response to the Clinton Plan for
Northwest Forests.
|
circa 1914 |
| 1 | X: Marcks Family
Photo
This picture of Wanda Marcks and her family was probably
taken by Ernest Cook and shows Wanda as a teenager, a few years before her
wedding to Ernest; to Wanda's left are her brothers, Raymond and Wallace, her
sister, Florence, her mother, Helen, and her father, Louis.
|
circa 1912 |
| 1 | 54: Cook Family Photo
This photograph of the Cook family shows William Hunt Cook,
his daughters, Doris, Lucine (Lina), and Mary; sons John W. (left) and Tyrone
P. (right), and wife.
|
circa 1890 |
| 1 | 84: Mrs. Marcks and Mrs.
Tiffany |
October 1920 |
Published Photographs - NumberedReturn to Top
published on pages 56-60 and 70-75
| Container(s) | Description | Dates |
|---|---|---|
| Box | ||
| 1 | 01: OAC campus scene, Corvallis,
Oregon
This postcard may have been made from a photo by Ernest
Cook. It shows Benton Hall from the northeast, sometime between 1905 and
1915.
|
|
02-04: Campus views; Roy Cook
believes Ernest took them as a student around 1910 |
||
| Box | ||
| 1 | 02: Benton Hall |
|
| 1 | 03: Benton Hall and Women's
Center Building |
|
| 1 | 04: Waldo Hall, Education
Hall, and Benton Hall |
|
| Box | ||
| 1 | 05: Bandstand |
circa 1910 |
| 1 | 06: Bandstand and library
quadrangle
This view shows the Wilson house on the current site of the
library and Alpha Hall on the current site of Social Science Hall.
|
circa 1910 |
| 1 | 07: McAlexander Fieldhouse and
athletic field south of Waldo Hall |
circa 1910 |
| 1 | 08: Apperson Hall |
circa 1910 |
| 1 | 09: Greenhouse |
circa 1910 |
| 1 | 10: Machine shop |
circa 1910 |
| 1 | 11-14: Views of the new family home
for the Cooks were probably taken by Ernest around 1914; note size and spacing
of trees around home at that time |
|
| 1 | 15: Growing corn
note the foot of Bakers Mountain in the background.
|
circa 1914 |
| 1 | 16: Grain, man, and
barn
view of a Sulphur Springs Stock Ranch crop; photographer
may be either Ernest Cook or Wanda Cook.
|
circa 1914 |
| 1 | 17: Old barn, circa 1915; Roy
Cook believes that this barn was probably located in Soap Creek Valley before
the turn of the century |
|
| 1 | P221:18: Unidentified Soap Creek
Valley cabin
may be a school building or a teacher's cottage.
|
circa 1914 |
19-23: Sulphur Springs Stock
Ranch
Cook house visible in all photos.
|
circa 1914 | |
| Box | ||
| 1 | 19: Looks southwest, toward
Sulphur Springs, with Kings Valley Ridge in the background |
|
| 1 | 20: Panorama of the southern
portion of Soap Creek Valley with Bakers Mountain to the right |
|
| 1 | 21: Easterly view with
Writsman's Peak in the left background and Coffin Butte in the
center |
|
| 1 | 22: Southeasterly view with
Coffin butte barely visible to the left and the northern slopes of Lewisburg
Saddle on the right |
|
| 1 | 23: Close-up of
fence |
Unpublished PhotographsReturn to Top
| Container(s) | Description | Dates |
|---|---|---|
| Box | ||
| 1 | Cabin or farm
building |
circa 1910s |
| 1 | Partially cleared land with
stumps and possible slash burning |
Names and SubjectsReturn to Top
Subject Terms
- College buildings--Oregon--Corvallis
Personal Names
- Cook, Wanda Marcks
Corporate Names
- Oregon Agricultural College-Buildings
Geographical Names
- Soap Creek Valley (Benton County and Polk County, Or.)
- Sulphur Springs (Benton County, Or.)
Form or Genre Terms
- Film negatives
- Photographic prints
Finding aid prepared by Elizabeth Nielsen.
1996
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
