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Food Science and Technology Department Records, 1924-1998

Overview of the Collection

Creator
Oregon State University. Dept. of Food Science & Technology.
Title
Food Science and Technology Department Records
Dates
1924-1998 (inclusive)
1940-1984 (bulk)
Quantity
0.7 cubic ft.
7 microfilm reels
Collection Number
RG 176
Summary
The Food Science and Technology Department Records document the instruction, research, and extension programs and include correspondence, research files, minutes, day files, travel reports, grants and awards information, Extension Station reports, and Seafoods Lab reports.
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
Languages
English
Sponsor
Funding for encoding this finding aid was provided through a grant awarded by the National Endowment for the Humanities.
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Historical Note

In 1919, a horticultural products processing program, the first of its kind in the nation, was begun at Oregon Agricultural College by Ernest H. Wiegand. The modern maraschino cherry was developed by the program in the 1920s. The program was established as a department, Food Products Industries, in 1937. A seafoods lab in Astoria was established in 1940. The department was renamed several times; in 1962 it became the Department of Food Science and Technology. Research efforts have involved nearly every food product produced in Oregon including tree and cane fruits, nuts, vegetables, and meat, dairy and seafood products.

Department chairs have included Wiegand, 1937-1952; Earl M. Litwiller, 1952-1953; Harold W. Schultz, 1953-1973; Paul E. Kifer, 1973-1984; Richard A. Scanlan, 1984-1985 (acting); and Daniel Farkas, 1991-2000.

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Content Description

Series I, General Office Files, documents the activities of the departmental office and include correspondence, research files, minutes, day files, travel reports, grants and awards information, Extension reports, and Seafoods Lab reports. Series II, Faculty Member Files, includes correspondence, class materials, research project files, and progress reports of faculty members Donald Bills and Clifford Samuels.

Series III, Extension Dairy Processing Specialist Files, documents the work of extension specialist Floyd Bodyfelt in the area of dairy products between 1964 and 1984. Series IV, Publications, includes information about a departmental publication, Top Double Seaming Manual. Series V, Special Events Records, documents the department's participation in two conferences, Beverages: Today's Health Concern (1983), and the International Symposium on Cool Climate Viticulture and Enology (1984).

Series VI, Research Reports, includes reports of Agricultural Experiment Station research from 1924-1941 and two research publications from the 1990s.

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Use of the Collection

Preferred Citation

Food Science and Technology Department Records (RG 176), Oregon State University Archives, Corvallis, Oregon.

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Administrative Information

Arrangement

Organized into six chronologically arranged series: I. General Office Files; II. Faculty Member Files; III. Extension Dairy Processing Specialist Files; IV. Publications; V. Special Events Records; and VI. Research Reports.

Related Materials

Related materials include the College of Agricultural Science (RG 158), Agricultural Experiment Station (RG 25), and Extension Service (RG 111) Records; the Food Science and Technology Dept. Photographs (P 142); and the Memorabilia Collection.

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Detailed Description of the Collection

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Subject Terms

  • Agricultural processing--Oregon.
  • Cherry--Preservation.
  • Dairy products--Oregon.
  • Fishery products--Oregon.
  • Food industry and trade--Oregon.
  • Wine and wine making--Oregon.

Personal Names

  • Wiegand, Ernest Herman, 1886-

Corporate Names

  • International Symposium on Cool Climate Viticulture and Enology (1st : 1984 : Eugene, Or.)
  • Oregon State University. Seafood Laboratory.
  • Symposium on Beverages, Today's Health Concerns (1983 : Oregon State University)

Other Creators

  • Personal Names

    • Bills, Donald D., 1932- (creator)
    • Bodyfelt, F. W. (Floyd W.), 1937- (creator)
    • Samuels, Clifford Elroy. (creator)

    Corporate Names

    • Oregon State University. Extension Service. (creator)
    • Oregon State College. Food Products Industries Dept. (creator)


2001

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