Descriptive Summary
Utah State University, Merrill-Cazier Library, Special Collections & Archives
Photograph Collection
Merrill-Cazier Library
Utah State University
3000 Old Main Hill
Logan, UT 84322-3000
Phone: 435 797-8248
Fax: 435 797-2880
Email: scweb@usu.edu
UUS_P0125
Jessup,
L. T.
Kootenai River Valley agricultural photographs
1930-1931
1 box
.25 linear ft.
Twenty-four silver gelatin developing-out paper
photograph prints. These photographs were removed from the report, "Relation of Crop
Production to Ground Water Conditions, Kootenai Valley, Idaho," written in March 1931 by
L.T. (Louie Theodore) Jessup. The photographs show wheat, oat, and pea fields during
growth and harvesting, and conditions resulting from poor ground water conditions in
Kootenai Valley near Bonners Ferry, Idaho.
Collection materials are in English.
Restrictions
Open to public research.
Copyright
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the copyright (the institution, the creator of the record, the author or his/her
transferees, heirs, legates, or literary executors). The user agrees to indemnify and
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from and against all claims made by any person asserting that he or she is an owner of
copyright.
Permission to publish material from the Kootenai River Valley agricultural photographs must
be obtained from the Special Collections Photograph Curator and/or the Special Collections
Department Head.
Kootenai River Valley agricultural photographs, 1930-1931. (P0125). Utah State
University. Special Collections & Archives Department.
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Register completed by Peter Schmid and revised by Amilia Yeates, July 2004.
Historical Note
L.T. (Louie Theodore) Jessup was Associate Drainage Engineer for the Division of
Agricultural Engineering, Bureau of Public Roads, U.S. Department of Agriculture.
Arrangement: Topical.
These photographs were removed from the report, "Relation of Crop Production to Ground
Water Condition, Kootenai Valley, Idaho," written in March 1931 by L.T. (Louie Theodore)
Jessup, Associate Drainage Engineer for the Division of Agricultural Engineering, Bureau
of Public Roads, U.S. Department of Agriculture. The report is located in Special
Collections under the call number 979.6525 J499. Photographs were kept in the order that
they appeared in the report, and the precise caption for each item was transcribed on
the verso as written in the report.
The photographs show wheat, oat, and pea fields during growth and harvesting, and
conditions resulting from poor ground water conditions in Kootenai Valley near Bonners
Ferry, Idaho. Twenty-four silver gelatin developing-out paper prints, 14.7 x 9 cm. to
17.7 x 13 cm.
Agriculture
Jessup, L. T. Relation of crop production to ground water conditions : Kootenai Valley,
Idaho.
United States. Bureau of Public Roads. Division of Agricultural Engineering
Farm equipment--Kootenai
River Valley--Photographs.
Irrigation--Kootenai River
Valley--Photographs.
Crops and water--Kootenai
River Valley--Photographs.
Crops--Kootenai River
Valley--Photographs.
Wheat--Harvesting--Kootenai
River Valley--Photographs.
Container List
Kootenai Valley
undated
1
1:01
Fields of grain in the Kootenai
Valley
undated
1
1:02
Closeup, cracks in subsoil near well
1-8
undated
1
1:03
Spring wheat in Drainage District No.
1
undated
1
1:04
Spring wheat being harvested in Drainage District
No. 1
undated
1
1:05
Crew cutting peas
undated
1
1:06
Grain in sheaves ready for harvest
undated
1
1:07
Lodged grain in Drainage District No.
4
undated
1
1:08
Lodged grain in Drainage District No.
4
undated
1
1:09
Looking north along "E" line of wells, Drainage
District No. 1
undated
1
1:10
Peas ready for harvest, Drainage District No.
1
undated
1
1:11
Crew harvesting wheat with a Caterpillar
combine
undated
1
1:12
Oat field in Drainage District No. 1
undated
1
1:13
Unreclaimed marsh in Drainage District No.
1
undated
1
1:14
Lodged grain in swale, Drainage District No.
11
undated
1
1:15
Crew harvesting grain in Drainage District No. 4
using a header
undated
1
1:16
Spring wheat in Drainage District No.
7
undated
1
1:17
Strip of grain between fields of early and late
peas in Drainage District No. 6
undated
1
1:18
Damaged fields resulting from high water table in
spring, Drainage District No. 7
undated
1
1:19
Crew harvesting peas in Drainage District No.
5
undated
1
1:20
"Burned" grain due to shallow soil underlain with
sand, Drainage District No. 7
undated
1
1:21
Grain in swale damaged by seepage from river
during high water, Drainage District No. 12
undated
1
1:22
Closeup, oat stalks from "A" line of wells in
Drainage District No. 1 exhibiting damage from high water table and also
insufficient moisture
undated
1
1:23
Closeup, wheat stalks from "C" line of wells in
Drainage District No. 6, some damaged by seepage from river during high
water
undated
1
1:24
Wheat stalks from "A" line of wells in Drainage
District No. 12, some damaged by high water in spring
undated