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Utah State University Department of Agriculture Publicity photographs, 1890-2000

Overview of the Collection

Creator
Utah State University
Title
Utah State University Department of Agriculture Publicity photographs
Dates
1890-2000 (inclusive)
Quantity
1.75 linear feet, (4 boxes)
Collection Number
UUS_P0715
Summary
Images used in publications or presentations to publicize the USU Agriculture department and Utah Extension Programs. The photos are of irrigation, agriculture, water reclamation, outdoor recreation, scenic views, agricultural research.
Repository
Utah State University, Merrill-Cazier Library, Special Collections and Archives Division
Special Collections & Archives
Merrill-Cazier Library
Utah State University
Logan, UT
84322-3000
Telephone: 4357978248
Fax: 4357972880
scweb@usu.edu
Access Restrictions

No restrictions on access, except: not available through interlibrary loan.

Languages
English
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Content Description

This collection contains images used in publications or presentations to publicize the USU Agriculture department and Utah Extension Programs. The images mostly come from USU photographers such as Nelson Wadsworth and Raymond W. Miller, as well as state and federal agencies such as the Soil Conservation Service, the Bureau of Land Management, the Bureau of Reclamation, the Forest Service, and the Utah Tourist and Publicity Council. The photos are of irrigation, agriculture, water reclamation, outdoor recreation, scenic views, agricultural research. Most lack a title, date, or photographer credit, and many have separated from papers with associated captions. The bulk of the collection is in black and white photographs, but also included are negatives, slides, transparencies, and some printed material.

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Use of the Collection

Restrictions on Use

It is the responsibility of the researcher to obtain any necessary copyright clearances.

Permission to publish material from the Utah State University Department of Agriculture Publicity photographs must be obtained from the Photograph Curator and/or the Special Collections Section Head.

Preferred Citation

Initial Citation: Utah State University Department of Agriculture Publicity photographs USU_P0715. Special Collections and Archives. Utah State University Merrill-Cazier Library. Logan, Utah.

Following Citations:USU_P0715, USUSCA.

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Administrative Information

Arrangement

These materials have been rehoused in acid free folders, but the original folder titles and general arrangement were retained. Folders have been arranged in alphabetical order by title/subject.

Acquisition Information

These materials were transferred to Special Collections in 2021.

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Detailed Description of the Collection

  • Description: Aerial farm photos

    Nephi experiment station, Rex Nielson

    Dates: 1953-1958
    Container: Box 1, Folder 1
  • Description: Buildings

    Old Main, greenhouse, "Outhouse Ridge," campus buildings, Farmers' Roundup tents, barns, cadets, aerial of campus, building construction, vet clinic building, square dancing on the quad, includes some negatives

    Dates: approximately 1900-1950
    Container: Box 1, Folder 2
  • Description: Compton Files

    Dusting crew, thatched roof house, farm house, farm equipment, orchard

    Dates: approximately 1890-1910
    Container: Box 1, Folder 3
  • Description: Entymology, Dr. Knowlton

    Insects, moth control in the home, swimsuit models with pesticide sprayers, commercial sprayers, includes some slides, negatives

    Dates: 1930's to 1960's
    Container: Box 1, Folder 4
  • Description: Experiment stations and Field Days

    Hy Steffen, Panguitch, crops, white vans, Dairy Day, Evans farm, cereal crops, UAC buildings, legumes, alfalfa, laboratory, B.L. Richards, Otto Reithmann, Bryce Wadley, propagation chamber, construction of Ag. Sci. building, wagon-drawn tree sprayer

    Dates: 1910 to 1960's
    Container: Box 1, Folder 5
  • Description: Experiment stations and Field Days

    Farm tours, Aggie Ice Cream, poster sessions, audience members, candid shots, pole barn

    Dates: 1980's
    Container: Box 1, Folder 6
  • Description: Farm implements and machinery

    Horse drawn farm equipment, tractors, tank sprayers, Boise project, 2.4-D weed killer, Notus, Idaho, power dusters, New Holland brand, printing card punch, blacksmithing anvil, plow, Utah-Idaho Sugar Co., combines, Millard county, bi-plane, thresher, dry farming, comparison photo with 1910 tractor

    Dates: 1930's to 1950's
    Container: Box 1, Folder 7
  • Description: Farm implements and machinery

    New Holland haycruiser baler, grinder/mixer, loading auger, mower-conditioner, PTO, harvesters, tractors, airplanes, hay farming, Cache Valley, silage, disc harrow, Massey - Ferguson, land leveling, Carol Grundmann (photographer), family farms, windrower, self-propelled harvester, Bear River Valley co-op, International Harvester company, mower-conditioner, hay baler, New Holland Hayliner, speedrower, bale wagon rodeo, slow-moving vehicle emblem (SMV), tank spreader, forage harvester, snow blade, lawn tractor, utility loader, roll-over test, farm machinery maintenance, University of Alaska research station, Wayne Bouwens, John Deere tractors,

    Dates: 1950's to 1990's
    Container: Box 1, Folder 8
  • Description: Farm structures

    Barns, poultry houses, graineries, silos, Quonset Rigid Frame 28, multi-use buildings, John Leak, salt station, Rex Nielson (photographer), mills, steel trap, hydrologic sensor, waterwheel, scale,

    Dates: approximately 1930-1970
    Container: Box 1, Folder 9
  • Description: Farmers

    Unidentified

    Dates: undated
    Container: Box 1, Folder 10
  • Description: Forest Service

    Lookout tower, Lincoln National Forest Sleepy Grass Picnicground, cabins, Christmas tree disposal, George Hart, forest hydrology, reducing water use with chemical sprays, chainsaw, mini-skidder, graduate students, pinyon pine hybrid swarm, Tooele county

    Dates: undated
    Container: Box 1, Folder 11
  • Description: Forestry

    Timberharvesting, mountain lake

    Dates: undated
    Container: Box 1, Folder 12
  • Description: Highways

    Buildings, cities, horse-drawn carriages, Lewiston Drug, stationwagon with car top box, bridges, Beck's Springs overpass (North Salt Lake City), Interstate Highway 15, Oneida St., farm buildings,

    Dates: 1890's to 1970's
    Container: Box 1, Folder 13
  • Description: Home on the Range

    Riding on horseback, Lyle McNeal, roping cattle, Preston Corporation, sheepherder's camp, Sawtooth Mountains, Kesko Farm herefords, Mantle Ranch, cattle at water, sand-filled irrigation ditch, some photos from the Utah State Historical Society

    Dates: 1920's to 1980's
    Container: Box 1, Folder 14
  • Description: Home Economics

    Food science classes, preserves, spices, children eating, dinner table, canning devices, Wilson Brothers, potato storage, cheese making, bread loaf comparisons, roasted chicken, potato chips, packaged dried fruit, produce section at grocery store, stewed plums, desserts, stews, fresh fruit, cabbage salad, sewing classes, yarn and fabric,Cache Valley Dairy Cheese Plant, lactic culture, milk and cheese products, Garth Hansen

    Dates: 1890-1980
    Container: Box 1, Folder 15
  • Description: Homes

    Exterior house shots, interior rooms, weaving loom, power lines

    Dates: 1930's to 1970's
    Container: Box 1, Folder 16
  • Description: Industry

    Industrial sites, Texas Gulf Sulfur Potash Mine at Kane Creek, pollution and crops, mine and mill waste, Launder precipitation plant, industrial processes, copper precipitate settling basins, leaching farm, distribution pond, scrap iron charging equipment, make-up water reservoir, flyash micro phototgraph, spherical glass particulates, Utah Power and Light coal-burning Huntingdon Plant

    Dates: 1962-1965
    Container: Box 2, Folder 1
  • Description: Irrigation

    Irrigation pumps and valves, Nephi field station, native plants, ditch construction, Yakima project, weed removal, water hemlock, Sunnyside canal, gravity flow, irrigation system structures, Paiute Reservoir, moveable sprinkler pipe

    Dates: 1947-1969
    Container: Box 2, Folder 2
  • Description: Irrigation

    Irrigation reservoir, Palisades project, Collbran project (Colorado), Logan City concrete reservoir before and after lining with plastic, concrete stilling basin, Wanship dam, seaming polyethylene, vinyl film, reservoir construction and lining, open-storage rain trap, water storage, drawings of irrigation methods, gated tubing, membrane lining, L-metergate, Cutler dam, Deer Creek reservoir,

    Dates: 1940's to 1960's
    Container: Box 2, Folder 3
  • Description: Irrigation - ditches

    Yakima project, William Farmer, Frank Webster, ditchbank, Provo River stilling pool and chute, ditchbank plants, Wind and Water Flume Study, hydraulics, Fluid Dynamics and Diffusion Laboratory, meteorological wind tunnel, ion engine vacuum tank, Dean Gillman, Bear River estuary, contour border, flood control,wooden flumes, children taking water samples

    Dates: 1960's
    Container: Box 2, Folder 4
  • Description: Laboratory

    Students, historic lab equipment, petri dishes with E. coli, dairy scientists, bovine oocyte, test tubes, Unknown Growth Factor (UGF), experimental substitutes for hay, Al Rivers, vet science, nematodes from ruminants, weather gauge, microscopic views

    Dates: 1890's to 1970's
    Container: Box 2, Folder 5
  • Description: Land use

    Pollution, logging, charcoal production and briquetting plant near Cedar City, rural subdivisions in Southern Utah, housing in Park City, UT

    Dates: 1973
    Container: Box 2, Folder 6
  • Description: Milk truck

    Two views of a milk tanker

    Dates: circa 1980
    Container: Box 2, Folder 7
  • Description: Mining

    photographs and negatives of a man posing at a mine ("Don the Miner")

    Dates: 1983
    Container: Box 2, Folder 8
  • Description: Native American

    Arrowheads, woven rug

    Dates: undated
    Container: Box 2, Folder 9
  • Description: Old Guys [college professors?]

    Portraits of John A. Widstoe, Kenneth Wilford Hill, Elmer Darwin Ball, Rudger Harper Walker, David Wynne Thorne, Phillip Vincent Cardon, William Peterson, Jeremiah Wilson Sanborn, Josiah H. Paul, other individuals unidentified. Dates of service range from 1890 to 1974.

    Dates: undated
    Container: Box 2, Folder 10
  • Description: Pasture

    Cows in field, fences, grassland, cows in corral

    Dates: undated
    Container: Box 2, Folder 11
  • Description: People

    Clipart-style illustrations of people engaged in various activities

    Dates: undated
    Container: Box 2, Folder 12
  • Description: People

    Candid photos of various people with Dr. Hansen, an insect collection, irrigation valves, students at a ditchbank, various lab scenes, couple in hallway

    Dates: 1960's to 1980's
    Container: Box 2, Folder 13
  • Description: People (personnel)

    Portraits or photographs of Jim Thomas, Devon Bailey, Stanford Cazier, LeGrand Elles, Kevin Jackson, Dale Barnard, George Emert, Dr. Bohart, Associate Dean Allred, Dean Plowman, Ken Hill, R. Sidwell, Noelle Cockett, Clair Accor, Parker Pratt, Rex F. Nielson, Paul Grimshaw, Dean Middlebrooks, Dr. Thorne, Elmer Clark, Jim Wood, Elwood Mickelson, Clark Ballard, R. J. Evans, R. H. Walker, Dee Broadbent, Royce Bringhurst, Bruce Beard, Boyd Archibald, Louis Madsen, Bartell Jensen, Jack Keller, Eugene Staples, Ernest Briskey, Nyle C. Brady, John L. Fischer, and other unidentified individuals

    Dates: 1900-2000
    Container: Box 3, Folder 1
  • Description: People (personnel)

    Portraits or photographs of Pat Shea, Allan Adams, James N. Seiber, Christine M. Bruhn, James Thomas, various other unidentified individuals

    Dates: 1950's to 1990's
    Container: Box 3, Folder 2
  • Description: Range Lands

    Weeds, grasses, rangeland research, lichen stand

    Dates: undated
    Container: Box 3, Folder 3
  • Description: Range Management

    Cattle in pasture, Bowns and West, sheep and cattle grazing studies, native grasses, sheet erosion of summer fallow field, drill furrows, reseeding, propane tanks, survey crew, aspen stand, fertilized vs. unfertilized crested wheatgrass, pinyon pine, Blacksmith Fork, tree stumps, shrub seed production, Fairview Canyon, oldman wormwood, depleted ranges, sagebrush study, grazing, microbial activity, sap collection tools, sap and syrup density, plowed sod, wildlife department, land development, overgrazing

    Dates: 1940's to 1960's
    Container: Box 3, Folder 4
  • Description: Range Management

    wood fences, juniper and pinyon pine trees, Saddle Horse Canyon offroad vehicle zone, tractors/chains used to clear land, Johns Valley, Lostcreek reseeding above Richfield, Tab Hollow fire, Copper Mountain, production grass cover, dirt road through forest, salt tolerant progeny, cattleguard, land type, seasoned split oak fireplace wood, rangeland watersheds, chainsaw with plunge bar, hydraulic wood splitter, 1st Dam, rain gauge

    Dates: 1940's to 1960's
    Container: Box 3, Folder 5
  • Description: Recreation

    Fishing, ski class on Old Main hill, Delicate Arch, family campsite, forestry camp, Logan Canyon, surveying, site of 3rd Dam pre-construction, sledding, Alvin Reiner (photographer), ice hockey, mountain lake, canoeing, snowmobiling, sailboats, motorboats (at Pineview Reservoir?), river rafting, cycling, Mike Dalton (photographer), hikers, horseback riders, pack train, cross-country skiers, waterskiier, Outward Bound course, barrel-supported boat dock/ramp, Ski Whiz snowmobiles

    Dates: 1920's to 1970's
    Container: Box 3, Folder 6
  • Description: Researchers, faculty, students appearing in Utah Science

    Jim Thomas, Don Jensen, Kelly Kopp, Daryll Dewald, Kermit Hall, Deb Gustafson, Rod Brown, Sidwell, Boettinger, Gary Straquadine, Janet Anderson, Marie Walsh, Debra Spielmaker, Rob Gillies, Robert Newhall, Ron Boman, Lynette Harris, Tilak Dhiman, Mary Donahue, Lyle Hillyard, Dennis Avery, Rulon Albrechtsen, Dan Drost, Layne Coppock, Leona Hawks, William Scouten, Wayne Watkins, Steve McMaster, Don Snyder, Mark Healey, Marda Dillree, Bruce Miller, Joan McFadden, Ken Olsen, Ralph Whitesides, Mike Conover, Don Sisson, Robert Lamb, Fee Busby, Nabil Youssef, Kemp, Lynn James, Jerry Chatterton, Von Mendenhall,

    Dates: 1980-2000
    Container: Box 3, Folder 7
  • Description: Researchers, faculty, students appearing in Utah Science

    Noelle Cockett, Conly Hansen, Deloy Hendricks, Rebeka Andrus, Stan Parsons, Rodney Brown, Eleanor Jenson,

    Dates: 1980-2000
    Container: Box 3, Folder 8
  • Description: Scenes

    Landscapes, mountain ranges, Monument Valley, Abajo Mountains and Monticello, Goblin Valley State Park, Zion National Park, Dead Horse Point panorama, Swain's Creek, mountain lake, picnic tables, amphitheater, Fish Lake waterfall, trees with snow, river canyons, slot canyons, pinion cedar forest, snowshoe track, range sheep grazing in high country, Logan Canyon Highway?, Big Cottonwood Creek, Logan temple with Wellsvilles in background, Logan Canyon view of east bench, cornfield

    Dates: 1930's to 1980's
    Container: Box 4, Folder 1
  • Description: Set-up photos

    Staged photos with views of wristwatches, book covers, IFA receipts, gavel resting on sand pile, shovel and work boots, sponge

    Dates: undated
    Container: Box 4, Folder 2
  • Description: Soil Management

    Soil conditions, "No-Till" sticker, Cache county soil test report and fertilization recommendation, microbial activity, Evan's farm, rain catchment apron, Utah's Salt Desert, salt infiltration in soils, soil cement, Garfield County irrigation problems, soil fertility, terraces, soil erosion, flooded field, Central Utah Project, reading tensiometers installed under trees, land type surveys

    Dates: 1967-1996
    Container: Box 4, Folder 3
  • Description: Third world/subsistence farming

    Single photo of man with horse-drawn plow

    Dates: undated
    Container: Box 4, Folder 4
  • Description: Train depot

    Single photo of wagon and train at unidentified train depot

    Dates: circa 1930?
    Container: Box 4, Folder 5
  • Description: Utah Botanical Center

    Cement footings and greenhouse roof supports

    Dates: 2001
    Container: Box 4, Folder 6
  • Description: Watershed Management

    Girl at drinking fountain, water lab, Richard Stevens, black light identification of sagebrush, speckled snow mold, rain trap sign, installing Z-curb in steel water trap, culvert headgate

    Dates: 1940's to 1960's
    Container: Box 4, Folder 7
  • Description: Weather - dust storms

    Soil drifts on farmstead near Guymon, Oklahoma (G.L. Beene, photographer), dust storm approaching small western Kansas town

    Dates: 1930's to 1950's
    Container: Box 4, Folder 8
  • Description: Weather - frost, snow

    Snow and frost covered trees, snow drifts, frost on plants, haybales, frost crystals

    Dates: undated
    Container: Box 4, Folder 9
  • Description: Other assorted slides, photos, transparencies, and negatives

    Father and son feeding cows, boy on 3-wheeled ATV, cow judging, family waiting for a ride

    Dates: 1950's to 1990's
    Container: Box 4, Folder 10

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Subject Terms

  • Agriculture--Photographs.
  • Agriculture--Research--United States--Photographs
  • Agriculture--Utah
  • Colleges and Universities
  • Spraying and dusting in agriculture--Photographs.
  • Utah Agricultural Experiment Station--Photographs.
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