Western Washington Research and Extension Center Photographs, 1913-1923

Overview of the Collection

Title
Western Washington Research and Extension Center Photographs
Dates
1913-1923 (inclusive)
Quantity
7 containers, (3.5 linear feet), (Approximate 560 items)
Collection Number
PC 27
Summary
A collection of some 560 photographs from the Western Washington Experiment Station. The station has served to bring the results of agricultural practice into western Washington and is presently known as the Western Washington Research and Extension Center
Repository
Washington State University Libraries' Manuscripts, Archives, and Special Collections (MASC)
Manuscripts, Archives, and Special Collections
Terrell Library Suite 12
Pullman, WA
99164-5610
Telephone: 509-335-6691
mascref@wsu.edu
Languages
English
Sponsor
Funding for encoding this finding aid was provided through a grant awarded by the National Endowment for the Humanities.

Historical NoteReturn to Top

In 1894, members of the Ross family of Puyallup proposed to deed to the college a tract of forty acres of logged land with a spring on the condition that the college should buy a certain tract of twenty acres of cultivated land and devote the entire area to an experiment station.

The station thus established was not a branch of the experiment station at Pullman founded under the provisions of the Hatch Act funds, but after 1887 and was not under the immediate direction of home station. It formed a distinct division of the institution answerable directly to the President of the college and to the Board of Regents.

Initially, the station was supported almost exclusively by Hatch Act funds, but after 1897, when this source stopped, it was forced to close several times until 1907, when adequate appropriation bill was passed and the station was officially designated "Western Washington Experiment Station."

About 1912, the station established a winter school for special courses in poultry and dairy industry. Large attention was also given to problems in plant pathology and the small fruit industry.

The station has served to bring the best results of agricultural practice into western Washington rather than devoting itself to purely scientific problems, not being hampered by many of the restrictions of the federal laws under the provisions of the Hatch and Adams Acts. The station is presently known as the Western Washington Research and Extension Center.

Content DescriptionReturn to Top

The photographic collection consists mostly of glass negatives (5x7) with some film negatives (5x7) taken by a member of station staff. Out of approximately 700 negatives received, about 560 were salvable, the rest of the images having been obliterated by water damage.

A Series: Based on a numbering system on the original negatives. Deals with test plotsof various vegetable and cereal crops and grasses. Some equipment and land clearing operations. Arranged chronologically if dated, with undated negatives following. 1913-1923. 204 items.

B Series: This category based on fragmentary numbering system on the original negatives. Concerned with plant diseases and effects of insect damage on plants. Arranged chronologically by year if dated, with undated negatives following. 1913-1919. 33 items.

C Series: Based on a fragmentary numbering system on the original negatives. Includes equipment, group portraits of visitors and various classes and short courses, and exhibits at the Western Washington State Fair. Arranged chronologically if dated, with undated negatives following. 1916-1921. 97 items.

D Series: Not included in any original numbering system. Concerned with numerous aspects of the poultry operation at the experiment station. Arranged chronologically if dated, with undated negatives following. 1913-1920. 154 items.

E Series: Not included in any original numbering system. Concerned with orchard fruit and various berries. Arranged chronologically if dated, with undated negatives following. 1913-1918. 74 items.

Administrative InformationReturn to Top

Acquisition Information

The papers of the Western Washington Research and Extension Center in Puyallup, including some glass and film negatives, were transferred to the Washington State University Library in November, 1977. (UA 77-34)

Detailed Description of the CollectionReturn to Top

Container(s) Description Dates
Box
1 A-8: Highland garden August 15, 1913
1 A-8a: Highland garden August 15, 1913
1 A-9: Squash in upland garden 1913
1 A-10: Tangier peas
1 A-11: Green manure -- winter rye and vetch May 12, 1913
1 A-15: Highland garden August 15, 1913
1 A-16: Mieluga Flint August 25, 1913
1 A-23: Windus White Dent cornfield August 26, 1913
1 A-24: Thayer's Yellow Dent cornfield August 26, 1913
1 A-24a: Thayer's Yellow Dent cornfield August 26, 1913
1 A-31: Windus White Dent corn (3 selected stalks) August 26, 1913
1 A-32: Mangel field August 27, 1913
1 A-33: Oats and vetch mixture 1913
1 A-42: Turnips
1 A-54: Clover and alfalfa June 1, 1914
1 A-55: Blanching celery with boards
1 A-56: View of cleared land, farm house and buildings
1 A-58-60: Fertility test plots
1 A-62: Transplanting cabbage July 26, 1914
1 A-67: Vetch June 15, 1914
1 A-69: Clovers August 22, 1914
1 A-71: Clovers June 15, 1914
1 A-74: Pot fertility test
1 A-75: Pot fertility test
1 A-85: Hairy vetch July 8, 1914
1 A-88: Purple vetch July 8, 1914
1 A-90: Grasses July 15, 1914
1 A-93: Corn August 28, 1914
1 A-95: Potato streak October 15, 1914
1 A-96: Winter and spring kale July 22, 1914
1 A-97: Potato patch
1 A-98: Field of blown stumps back of station
1 A-99: Gasoline engine used in clearing hill back of station
1 A-100: Pile of stumps to be burned
1 A-101: Character of growth and nature of clearing on hill back of station
1 A-106: Alfalfa
1 A-107: Non Sac. Sorghums October 7, 1915
1 A-108: Land clearing
1 A-108a,b: Land clearing
1 A-109: Concrete cold frame
1 A-110: Tomatoes
1 A-112: Rhubarb before pulling
1 A-113: Corn kernels
1 A-114: Ears of corn
1 A-115: Kernels of Pearsall corn April 19, 1916
1 A-116: Minnesota ear corn April 19, 1916
1 A-117: Pearsall ear corn April 19, 1916
1 A-118: Minnesota corn kernels
1 A-119: Plots from field 7 August 5, 1916
1 A-120: Cradling oats August 4, 1916
1 A-120a: Cradling oats August 4, 1916
1 A-121: Grasses August 15, 1916
1 A-121a: Grasses August 15, 1916
1 A-122: Cereal plots -- rod rows
1 A-123: Corn and thresher August 24, 1916
1 A-124: Manure pile, John Snell's farm
1 A-125: Manure pile, John Snell's farm
1 A-126: Manure pile, John Snell's farm
1 A-127: Carrots -- upland grown November 8, 1916
1 A-128: Carrots -- upland grown November 8, 1916
1 A-131: Plan of soil crop system
1 A-132: Monthly seeding of cereal and grass crops July 14, 1917
1 A-133: Corn on fertility plots September 8, 1917
1 A-134: Seeded field September 8, 1917
1 A-135: Minnesota corn September 8, 1917
1 A-136: Monthly seeding September 8, 1917
1 A-137: Monthly seeding September 8, 1917
1 A-138: Celery
1 A-139: Corn
1 A-140: Pea harvester July 1918
1 A-141: Pea harvester at work
1 A-142: Fertilizer plots -- corn
1 A-144: Fertilizer plots -- mangels
1 A-145: Dogwood nature May 24, 1918
1 A-145a: Dogwood nature May 24, 1918
1 A-146: Weeds in corn, copy from Minnesota bulletin #149 December 11, 1918
1 A-146a: Hay caps, copy from Iowa bulletin #137 December 11, 1918
1 A-146b: Drainage plans, copy from North Carolina bulletin #234 December 11, 1918
1 A-146c: Alfalfa plant, copy from Iowa bulletin #137 December 11, 1918
1 A-146d: Corn rack, copy from Illinois bulletin #225 December 11, 1918
1 A-146e: Rag doll tester, copy from Illinois bulletin #211 December 11, 1918
1 A-146f: Humus poster, copy I.H.C December 11, 1918
1 A-146g: "Drilling better than broadcasting," I.H.C. poster
1 A-147: Soil in good tilth
1 A-148: Oats November 8, 1918
1 A-149: Mangel yields on fertilizer plots November 16, 1918
1 A-150: Blue grass, from Sutton's book on grasses November 16, 1918
1 A-151: Alfalfa roots
1 A-153: Rag doll tester, Illinois bulletin #211
1 A-154: Oat varieties
1 A-155: Wheat
1 A-159: Celery
1 A-160: Comparative yields of grain
1 A-161: The approximate amounts of plant food removed by different crops
1 A-162: Potatoes in fertilizer plots August 20, 1919
1 A-163: Second crop of clover
1 A-164: Hemp
1 A-165: Hybrid clover and alfalfa
1 A-166: Dr. H. B. Humphrey and Mainstaff oats August 13, 1919
1 A-167: Artichokes, corn and sunflowers October 11, 1919
1 A-168: Clearing land for dairybarn on Ross place
1 A-169: Fertilizer plot -- corn August 1, 1919
1 A-169a,b,c: Fertilizer plot -- corn August 1, 1919
1 A-170: Fertilizer plot -- mangels August 1, 1919
1 A-171a,b,c: Grass and clover August 13, 1919
1 A-180: Shot clay fertilizer plots -- clover and grass July 2, 1920
1 A-181: Shot clay fertilizer plots -- clover and grass July 2, 1920
1 A-182: Shot clay fertilizer plots -- clover and grass July 2, 1920
1 A-183: Fertilizer plots July 27, 1920
1 A-183a,b,c: Fertilizer plots July 27, 1920
1 A-184a,b,c: Clover and grass hay cocks July 7, 1920
2 A-190a,b,c: Vetch (common)
2 A-191-2: Weeds (horsetail and quack)
2 A-200a,b: Comparative growth made by oats and vetch
2 A-201a,b: Water hemlock April 8, 1922
2 A-210a: Mangel pits December 12, 1923
2 A-211a,b,c: Pitting roots November 22, 1923
2 A-220: Sprayer -- angle cylinder hand pump
2 A-220a: Sprayer -- double acting hand pump
2 A-221: Stove drier
2 A-222: Sun drier showing tray
2 A-223: Steam drier
2 A-224: Cold frame
2 A-225: Unidentified equipment
2 A-226: Heads of wheat, barley, and oats
2 A-227: Wild oats
2 A-228: Sandbox tester
2 A-229a,b,c: Equiseteum
2 A-230a: Quack grass
2 A-231a,b: Horseradish
2 A-232: Varieties of plants
2 A-233: Unidentified plant
2 A-234: Asparagus
2 A-235: Two men in field
2 A-236: Boy in buckwheat field
2 A-237: Man in cornfield
2 A-238: Hemp
2 A-239: Five year average of mangels on fertilizer plots
2 A-240: Germination trays (?)
2 A-241: Poor tomato
2 A-242: Sproutings
2 A-243: Garden plots
2 A-244a: Up-to-date potatoes
2 A-245: Man with tubers
2 A-246: Vegetable patch -- rhubarb (?)
2 A-247: People in potato (?) field
2 A-248: Juniper mint
2 A-248-251: Station views
2 A-252: Celery washing, tying and packing
2 A-253: Bigiton land after seeding
2 A-254: Metal plate numbered 103422
2 A-255: Barley
2 A-256: Minnesota #13 corn
2 A-257: Corn on fertilizer plots
2 A-258-260: Mangels
2 A-261-262: Rhubarb ready for pressing, covering, and nailing
2 A-263: Grasses
2 A-264: Oats and vetch
3 B-24: Plum diseases 1913
3 B-25a: Potato tuber moths June 1913
3 B-26: Green aphis injury on apple fruit August 1, 1913
3 B-27: Wooly aphis injury on apple twigs August 1, 1913
3 B-28: Loose smut on wheat
3 B-29: Blossom end rot of tomato
3 B-30: Septoria petroselina on celery
3 B-31: Late blight on celery November 5, 1914
3 B-32: Rose rust May 1915
3 B-33: Ladybugs
3 B-34: Ladybugs
3 B-35a: Turnips -- club root (?)
3 B36-37: Club root -- cabbage
3 B-38: Leaf blotch
3 B-39: Cultures of fungi from diseased raspberries
3 B-40: Bembecia marginator -- raspberry
3 B-41: Green aphis on apple twig
3 B-42: Bud moth -- apple
3 B-43: Oyster shell scale -- apple
3 B-44: Oats smut
3 B-45: Corn smut
3 B-46: Club root -- cabbage
3 B-47: Scab tawple
3 B-48: Bean -- plizoctonia
3 B-49: Ladybug cases
3 B-50-54: Sclerotima perple -- sunflower stalks
4 C-82: Covered manure shed
4 C-83-85: Covered barnyard and dairy barn 1916
4 C-86: Farmer's Day crowd -- with president Bryan June 29, 1916
4 C-87: Commercial Club -- Board of Regents and President Holland April 1916
4 C-89-92: Poultry Club 1916-1917
4 C-93a: Dairy class -- winter school 1917
4 C-94: Motto, yell, etc. of 1917 poultry class
4 C-95-96: "Festive board," spread for 1917 winter school poultry class
4 C-97: 1917 poultry class toast, yell, etc
4 C-108a: Thurston County visitors 1917
4 C-109: Lewis County visitors August 11, 1917
4 C-110: Grays Harbor and Kitsap County visitors August 7, 1917
4 C-111: King County visitor August 6, 1917
4 C-112a: Whatcom, Snohomish, Jefferson and Clallam County visitors 1917
4 C-113a: Snell silo
4 C-114: Visitors July 23, 1918
4 C-115: Mason, Thurston and Gray Harbor County visitors July 23, 1918
4 C-122a: Bob White on donkey
4 C-125a,b: Bob White and self-trip choker 1918
4 C-127a: Manure pile
4 C-129: Poultry class 1918
4 C-152a: Kehoe hay cock standards 1918
4 C-153a,b: Kehoe hay cock standard
4 C-154: Kehoe hay cocks
4 C-155: "Kehoe" hay cocks May 10, 1918
4 C-156: "Victory"-Red Cross horse taken in front of Victory Hall September 25, 1918
4 C-157-159: Fair views 1918
4 C-160a,b,c: Fair views 1918
4 C-161a: Extension dairy exhibit at 1918 fair
4 C-170a,b: Station views June 16, 1919
4 C-171a,b,c: Pierce County visiting day July 14, 1919
4 C-172: Puyallup fair exhibit 1919
4 C-173: Poultry students delousing poultry February 4, 1920
4 C-174: Short course -- students feeding wet mash 1920
4 C-175: Miss Pillsbury and calves in front of dairy barn 1920
4 C-175a,b: Miss Pillsbury and calves in front of dairy barn 1920
4 C-176a,b: Learning to milk -- dairy short course student Miss Pillsbury 1920
4 C-177: Mrs. Jessup, Mrs, Bradley, and Miss Pillsbury -- winter school students 1920
4 C-178: Apple packing -- tree fruit short courses 1920
4 C-179: Gas engine class 1920
4 C-180: Festive board 1920
4 C-185a: Poultry picnic June 2, 1921
4 C-186a: Lewis, Cowlitz and Clark County 1921
4 C-187: King County Day July 22, 1921
4 C-188: Visitors on upland February 21, 1921
4 C-189: Dairy demonstration 1921
4 C-190: Pierce County Day July 1921
4 C-191: Thurston and Oman County July 21, 1921
4 C-192: Snohomish, Whatcom, Skagit Island, and San Juan Counties July 23, 1921
4 C-193a: Grays Harbor County July 20, 1921
4 C-194: Unidentified group portrait
4 C-195a: Pruning old trees -- short course
4 C-196: People and cows
4 C-197: Hog
4 C-198: Litter mates
4 C-199a: Cow
4 C-200a: Snell's silo (wood shop)
4 C-201-202: Winter school building
5 D-1: High vitality W. Q. cockerel 1913
5 D-2: Low vitality W. Q. cockerel July 21, 1913
5 D-3: Complete set of trap nests
5 D-4: White leghorns December 13, 1915
5 D-5-8: Poultry house and white leghorns
5 D-9: View of semi-monitor poultry house in construction
5 D-10: Rear view of poultry house January 1916
5 D-11: Eggs inside of soft shells
5 D-12: White leghorn chick
5 D-13: Poultry equipment
5 D-14-15: White leghorn pullet
5 D-16: Egg balance 1917
5 D-17: Brooder house under construction 1917
5 D-18: Brooder house under construction 1917
5 D-19-21: Poultry equipment
5 D-22: Pewee eggs
5 D-23: 1917 poultry class
5 D-24-25: Pullet eggs
5 D-26: Chicken TB
5 D-27: Poultry equipment
5 D-28: White leghorn pullets
5 D-29: Table of spread for 1917 poultry class
5 D-30: Chicken pox 1918
5 D-31: Shoup laying house
5 D-32: Poultry plant
5 D-33: Normal appearing fowl
5 D-34-35: Post-mortem
5 D-36: Interior of poultry building at fair 1918
5 D-37: Killing October 18, 1918
5 D-38: Poultry house at 1918 fair exhibit
5 D-39-40: Pullets -- south house
5 D-41-42: Poultry building at fair 1918
5 D-43: Specimen of chicken pox 1919
5 D-44: Slot in roof of chicken mouth
5 D-45: Interior, open air brooder house March 27, 1920
5 D-46: Chick self-feeder
5 D-47: Poultry students de-lousing poultry
5 D-48: Two trouserette poultryettes
5 D-49: Poultry house
5 D-50: Large orp chick
5 D-51: Small orp chick
5 D-52: Chick in incubator
5 D-53-55: Poultry house
5 D-56: Feed hoppers
5 D-57: Eggs and chicks
5 D-58: Large rock chick
5 D-59: Eggs and chick
5 D-60-61: Self feeder
5 D-62-63: Poultry net
5 D-64: Chicken
5 D-65: Net
5 D-66-67: Standard eggs
5 D-68: Dressed chicken
5 D-70-71: Interior house showing equipment
5 D-72-73: Runts
5 D-74: Two chicks
5 D-75: Chicken
5 D-76: Eggs and chicks
5 D-77: Head of chicken
5 D-78-81: Eggs
5 D-83: Orp
5 D-84: Chicken pox
5 D-85: Poultry house
5 D-86: Eggs
5 D-87: Orp
5 D-88-89: Chicks
5 D-90: Orphington
5 D-91: Interior poultry house
5 D-92-93: Eggs and chicks
5 D-94: Small leghorn pullet
5 D-95: Leghorn house
6 D-96: Poultry yard
6 D-97: Poultry class
6 D-98: Leghorn
6 D-99: Dressed chickens
6 D-100: Poultry hopper
6 D-101: Two chickens
6 D-102-103: Semi-monitor poultry house
6 D-104-105: Chicks
6 D-106: TB chicken
6 D-107: Orp hen pullet
6 D-108: W. orp
6 D-109: Brooder house
6 D-110: Orp hens
6 D-111: Chicks
6 D-112: Broken eggs
6 D-113: Chicken
6 D-114-115: Fattening crate
6 D-116: Chickens feeding
6 D-117: Poultry pens
6 D-118: Weak appearing fowl
6 D-119: Laying house
6 D-120: Chicks on forced roost
6 D-121: Fattening crate
6 D-122: Internal organs of fowl
6 D-123: Chickens in cage
6 D-124: Interior poultry house
6 D-125: Chickens in cages
6 D-126-127: "Star" water and milk founts
6 D-128: Chickens in cages
6 D-129-130: People packing eggs
6 D-131: Mr. Dickey
6 D-132-133: Catching crate
6 D-134: Chicken feeder
6 D-135: Chicken catching net
6 D-136: Chicken
6 D-137-138: Poultry house
6 D-139: Two chickens
6 D-140-141: Chickens
6 D-142: Leghorn
6 D-143: Orp
6 D-144: Man holding chicken
6 D-145: Chicken
6 D-146: Interior of brooder house
6 D-147: Chickens feeding from through
6 D-148: Laugshan hens -- good layer
6 D-149: Laugshan hens -- poor layer
6 D-150-152: Caponizing
6 D-153: Barred rock
6 D-154: Two chickens
7 E-1: Raspberry varieties 1913
7 E-2: Clapp Favorite pear
7 E-3: White Deyenne
7 E-4: Hardy pear
7 E-5: Bartlett pear
7 E-6: Seckel pear
7 E-7: Clairgeau pear tree
7 E-8: Montgomery cherries
7 E-9: Bartlett tree
7 E-10: Clairgeau pear tree
7 E-11: Bartlett tree
7 E-12: Bartlett pear
7 E-13: Gooseberry varieties
7 E-14: Berry training models
7 E-15: Montmorency cherry July 10, 1914
7 E-16: Royal Anne cherries
7 E-17: Late Duk cherry
7 E-18: Bordeaux pear
7 E-19: Montmorency cherry
7 E-20: Raspberries failing to leaf due to poor drainage 1916
7 E-21-22: Cutting out old canes 1917
7 E-23: Late Duk cherry
7 E-24: Marboro berries
7 E-25: Burning berry canes February 7, 1918
7 E-26: Cherry fruit
7 E-27: Evergreen crossbred
7 E-28: Three cartons berries
7 E-29: Raspberry canes in full leaf
7 E-30: Box of plums (?)
7 E-31: Berry training model
7 E-32: Blackberry varieties
7 E-33: General Dewey strawberries
7 E-34: Flower
7 E-35: Cherries
7 E-36: Montmorency cherry
7 E-37: Cherries
7 E-38: Cornice pear
7 E-39: Anjou pear
7 E-40: Wealthy apple
7 E-41: Grimes Golden apple
7 E-42: Gravenstein apple
7 E-43: King apple
7 E-44: Louise Bonne of Jersey
7 E-45: Maynard plum
7 E-46: Maynard and Tragedy plums
7 E-47: Yellow Egg plum
7 E-48: Tragedy plum
7 E-49: Northern Spy apple
7 E-50: Tragedy plum
7 E-51: Yellow Transparent apple
7 E-52-53: Yellow Transparent apple
7 E-54: Parker blackberry
7 E-55: Strawberries
7 E-56: Crossbred blackberry
7 E-57: Cut leaved Evergreen blackberry
7 E-58: Bordeaux pear
7 E-59: Gooseberries
7 E-60: Columbia plum
7 E-61: Before pruning young tree
7 E-62: Young tree after pruning
7 E-63: Section of tree limb
7 E-64: Texas and Snyder blackberries
7 E-65: General Dewey strawberries
7 E-66: Crossbred blackberries
7 E-67: Burning berry canes
7 E-68: Berry training models
7 E-69: Berries and blossoms (?)
7 E-70: Late Duk (sour cherry)
7 E-71: General Dewey strawberries
7 E-72: Crossbred blackberry
7 E-73: Old cherry tree
7 E-74: Maynard pear
8 Contact prints

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Subject Terms

  • Agriculture -- Research -- Photographs.
  • Puyallup (Wash.) รป Photographs.