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Food Science and Technology Department Photographs, 1900-1963

Overview of the Collection

Creator
Oregon State University. Dept. of Food Science & Technology.
Title
Food Science and Technology Department Photographs
Dates
1900-1963 (inclusive)
1914-1945 (bulk)
Quantity
0.6 cubic foot, including 729 photographs, (6 boxes)
Collection Number
P 142
Summary
The Food Science and Technology Department Photographs depict the department's food processing and canning laboratories and equipment; research and testing activities of the department; faculty and students; and commercial food packing and processing facilities and equipment throughout Oregon.
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
Access Restrictions

Collection is open for research.

Languages
English
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Historical Note

In 1919, a horticultural products processing program, the first of its kind in the United States, was begun at Oregon Agricultural College by Ernest H. Wiegand. The modern maraschino cherry was developed by this program in the 1920s. In 1937 the program was established as a department, Food Products Industries. 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.

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Content Description

The Food Science and Technology Department Photographs document the department's food processing and canning laboratories and equipment; research and testing activities of the department; faculty, staff, and students; and canners' and frozen food packers' short courses offered by the department. Several images of the Food Technology Building (now Hovland Hall) are included in the collection. Faculty members Ernest H. Wiegand, Thomas Onsdorff, and H.W. Schultz are depicted in the collection. Postcards of the Italian Swiss Colony Vineyards in Asti, California depict the winery, vineyards, sampling room, and wine vaults.

The collection includes many photographs of commercial food packing and processing facilities and equipment throughout Oregon as well as in Washington, California, and British Columbia, such as those used for walnut and fresh fruit packing, prune drying, and fruit and vegetable canning. Images of packaged food products and of mobile relief canneries in the early 1930s sponsored by organizations such as the Extension Service are also included.

Several images from the collection are available online in the Best of the Archives digital collection. Photographers include Angelus Commercial Studio, Ball Studio, Drake Brothers Studio, Robert W. Henderson, and Wilfley Studio. The collection includes 465 prints, 167 nitrate negatives, 46 film negatives, 44 glass negatives, and 7 lantern slides.

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Use of the Collection

Preferred Citation

Food Science and Technology Department Photographs (P 142), Oregon State University Archives, Corvallis, Oregon.

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Administrative Information

Arrangement

The collection is arranged in 10 series: I. Glass Negatives, 1914-1921; II. Quartermaster Project, circa 1942; III. Rogue River Valley Canning, circa 1940; IV. Food Technology Production Equipment and Machinery, circa 1900-1940; V. Food Industries Experimental Laboratory Equipment, circa 1920-1940; VI. Relief Canneries, 1932-1933; VII. Food Processing and Packing Plants, circa 1915-1935; VIII. Dehydrator Plants and Works, circa 1917; IX. Italian Swiss Colony Vineyards Postcards, circa 1940; and X. Food Processing Equipment and Facilities, Faculty, and Students, 1914-1963. The prints and film negatives are arranged by series and thereunder by number; the nitrate negatives are arranged numerically.

Acquisition Information

Most of the materials in the collection were received by the Archives prior to 1985.

Related Materials

The Food Science and Technology Department (RG 176) and Agricultural Experiment Station (RG 025) Records contain significant materials documenting the research activities of the department. Additional photographs are part of Harriet's Collection, and the Extension and Experiment Station Communications Photographs (P 120), the Gwil Evans Photographic Collection (P 082), and the Robert W. Henderson Photographs (P 098). Materials pertaining to the industrial processing of strawberries are part of the Dean E. Booster Papers. Extensive information about canneries Oregon and Washington in 1914-1915 is available in the U.S.D.A. Northwest Cannery Survey Collection.

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Detailed Description of the Collection