OREp230.xml Guide to the Emile Pernot Photographs 1893-1895 Pernot (Emile) Photographs Finding aid prepared by Elizabeth Nielsen. Oregon State University Libraries, Special Collections & Archives Research Center 2013
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P 230 Pernot, E. F. (Emile Francis), 1859- Emile Pernot Photographs 1893-1895 0.25 cubic foot, including 62 photographs 1 oversize box The Emile Pernot Photographs consist of photographs of Oregon Agricultural College buildings, classrooms, faculty, students, and cadets made by Pernot in the mid-1890s. Emile Pernot was hired by Oregon Agricultural College in 1890 to teach photography and take photographs for the Experiment Station. Materials in English. Biographical Note:

Emile F. Pernot was born in New York in 1859. He accompanied his brother, Henry, to Oregon in 1889, and together they opened a photography business. In 1890 Pernot was hired by Oregon Agricultural College to teach photography and to take photographs for the Experiment Station. Through his pioneering work in microphotography, he developed an interest in bacteriology, and was named the first chair of the Bacteriology Department in 1900. In 1910 Pernot was named bacteriologist for the city of Portland. He married Edith Coote, daughter of OAC horticulturalist George Coote. Pernot died in 1927.

The Emile Pernot Photographs consist of mounted albumen prints of Oregon Agricultural College buildings, classrooms, faculty, students, and cadets, made by Pernot. Many of the photographs were published in the 1893-1894 Annual Catalog and the 1894 Hayseed. Of special note are portrait photographs of the Oregon Agricultural College (OAC) faculty that were published in the Hayseed. John M. Bloss, OAC President; John D. Letcher, Professor of Mathematics; and George Coote, Professor of Horticulture, are also depicted in several of the images of classes. Examples of photomicrographs made by Pernot are included in the album.

The collection includes images of most of the buildings on the campus in 1893-1894 -- the Horticulture Building and Greenhouse, Mechanical Hall (which burned in 1898), Benton Hall, Cauthorn (Fairbanks) Hall, Alpha Hall, and the Station Building (now the Women's Center) -- as well as laboratories and classrooms. Classes in surveying, tile drainage, grafting, and cooking are depicted in the collection.

The majority of the photographs are bound in an album; the collection also includes prints mounted on both sides of individual mounting boards.

Collection is open for research.

The Emile Pernot Photographs are arranged in two series: I. Album, 1893-1895 and II. Albumen Prints, 1893-1895.

Emile Pernot Photographs (P 230), Oregon State University Special Collections & Archives Research Center, Corvallis, Oregon.

These materials were transferred from the Horner Museum collections to the University Archives in 1996.

The Pernot Family Photographic Collection (P 220) includes images of the Pernot and Coote families as well as the Oregon Agricultural College campus and faculty. Several other photographic collections include photographs taken by Emile Pernot, including the OSU Historical Photographic Collection (P 025), the College of Agricultural Sciences Photographs (P 036), the Alice Kidder Evans Photographs (P 144), and Harriet's Photographic Collection.

Bloss, John McKnight, 1839- Letcher, John D. Coote, George, 1842-1908. Oregon Agricultural College--Buildings. Oregon Agricultural College--Faculty. Oregon Agricultural College--Students. College buildings--Oregon--Corvallis. College students--Oregon--Corvallis. Greenhouses--Oregon--Corvallis. Military education--Oregon--Corvallis. Albumen prints. Photograph albums. Photomicrographs. Agriculture Colleges and Universities Military Women Oregon Corvallis Photographs Series I Album 1893-1895

Series I consists of an album of 48 mounted albumen prints depicting Oregon Agricultural College buildings, laboratories, students, and faculty. The series includes portrait photographs of all the Oregon Agricultural College faculty in 1894; the images were published in the 1894 Hayseed. Also of note are photomicrographs of plant materials.

 1 Class in tile drainage

President John M. Bloss and faculty member John D. Letcher are shown with the students on agricultural land west of Cauthorn (Fairbanks) Hall.

 1 New Horticultural Buildings and Photography Department

George Coote standing in front of the greenhouse and Horticulture Building.

 1 Old Horticultural Buildings 1 Botanical Laboratory 1 Machine shop 1 Old Mechanical Hall circa 1894

Brick structure; image includes water tower.

 1 New Mechanical Hall

Wooden frame addition to brick building; water tower also visible in the image.

 1 Dynamo built by students fourth year 1 Wood work; first year 1 Iron work; second year 1 Plant specimen of Canada thistle 1 Plant specimen of sow thistle 1 Short horn cattle 1 Polled Angus 1 Photomicrographs 11 photographs

Photographs made with microscope showing a healthy and diseased onion top; adulterated and pure mustard; adulterated and pure lard crystals; oat ??; spiral tissue; stony tissue; sap cell of diseased peach limb; and cross section of peach limb.

1 Beets 5 photographs

A healthy beet leaf; a beet leaf eaten by a beetle; the beet leaf beetle; and a cross section of the beet root showing sugar cells.

 1 John M. Bloss, President 1894 1 G.A. Covell, Professor of Mechanics 1894 1 J.D. Letcher, Professor of Mathematics 1894 1 J.B. Horner, Professor of English 1894 1 F. Berchtold, Professor of Language, History and Drawing 1894 1 George Coote, Professor of Horticulture 1894 1 F. L. Washburne, Professor of Geology and Entomology 1894 1 H. T. French, Professor of Agriculture 1894 1 G.W. Shaw, Professor of Chemistry and Physics and Station Chemist 1894 1 John F. Fulton, Assistant to Professor of Chemistry 1894 1 Moses Craig, Professor of Botany 1894 1 Margaret Snell Professor of Household Economy and Hygiene 1 W.W. Bristow, Professor of Preparatory Department 1894 1 Ida B. Callahan, Assistant Preparatory Department 1894 1 Emile F. Pernot, Professor of Photography and Engraving 1894 1 Harley R. Clark, Professor of Printing 1894 1 Lieut. C.E. Dentler, Commandant 1894 1 E.M. Belknap, Instructor in Wood and Iron Work 1894 Series II Albumen Prints 1893-1895

Series II consists of 14 mounted albumen prints that were probably originally part of an album. The images depict Oregon Agricultural College buildings, classrooms, laboratories, and students.

 1 Main college building circa 1895

Benton Hall.

 1 College museum 1 Ladies Hall

Alpha Hall.

 1 Cooking class 1 Cauthorn Hall circa 1893

Fairbanks Hall.

 1 Class in surveying circa 1893

John D. Letcher with students.

 1 English Department classroom circa 1893 1 College barn

Octagonal barn.

 1 College cadets circa 1894

In formation in front of Benton Hall.

 1 College cadets

College orchard and Horticulture Building in background.

 1 Greenhouse interior 1 Class in grafting

George Coote with students.

 1 Chemical laboratory

Perhaps in the basement of the Station Building (now known as Benton Annex or the Women's Center building).

 1 Station building

Now known as Benton Annex or the Women's Center building.