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Farm Crops Department Photographs, 1919-1961
Overview of the Collection
- Creator
- Oregon State College. Department of Farm Crops.
- Title
- Farm Crops Department Photographs
- Dates
- 1919-1961 (inclusive)19191961
- Quantity
- 0.05 cubic feet, including 44 photographic prints and 3 photographic negatives, (1 box)
- Collection Number
- P 130
- Summary
- The Farm Crops Department Photographs illustrate the research activities of the Farm Crops Department. The photographs in this collection include images of crop production, the use of agricultural machinery, and department faculty between 1919 and 1961.
This collection has been digitized and made available online. - Repository
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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
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This collection is open for research.
- Languages
- English
Historical NoteReturn to Top
Organized in 1916, the Farm Crops Department was established to coordinate research efforts in crop experimentation at the Oregon Agricultural Experiment Station. Prior to 1916, Experiment Station research had been directed by the Department of Agronomy, which was established in 1907.
Among the projects undertaken by the Farm Crops Department was the management of the Seed Testing Laboratory, cereal investigation, cooperative extension work with farmers, and research in chemical weed control. Many of these projects were joint cooperative arrangements with the USDA. In 1971, the Department was renamed Agronomic Crop Science and again, in 1977, to Crop Sciences. In 1990, the Crop Science and Soil Science Departments merged to form the Department of Crop and Soil Science.
Content DescriptionReturn to Top
The Farm Crops Department Photographs are comprised of 46 unique images (44 prints, including 1 duplicate, and 3 negatives) documenting planting, care, harvesting, and transportation of farm crops, especially grasses; use of farming tools and machinery; and Farm Crops Department faculty members. The images primarily depict plants such as barnyard grass seedlings, phorium, and fescue and land under cultivation by both horse drawn and mechanical farm equipment at the Oregon Experiment Station. Department faculty, such as Ritchie Cowan, H.A. Schoth and Rod Frakes, are also pictured in these photographs.
The photographs in this collection have been assigned numbers P130:01-P130:47. P130:10 and P130:11 are not extant.
This collection has been digitized and made available online.
Use of the CollectionReturn to Top
Preferred Citation
Farm Crops Department Photographs (P 130), Oregon State University Special Collections and Archives Research Center, Corvallis, Oregon.
Administrative InformationReturn to Top
Arrangement
The Farm Crops Department Photographs are comprised of one series: Photographs, 1919-1961. The photographs are arranged in the order assigned during the collection's preliminary processing.
Acquisition Information
The Farm Crops Department Photographs were accessioned by the Oregon State University Archives in the 1960s. The collection is now housed in the Special Collections and Archives Research Center. P130:010 and P130:011 are not extant.
Processing Note
The finding aid for this collection was originally published in 2000. It has been updated to reflect current arrangement and description best practices.
Related Materials
Materials documenting the history and evolution of the Farm Crops Department can be found in the Crop Science Department Records (RG 095) and the Crop Science Department Photographic Collection (P 134).
Other materials relating to OSU's role in agricultural research include the Agricultural Experiment Station Records (RG 025), Agricultural Experiment Station Photographic Collection (P 029), College of Agricultural Sciences Records (RG 158), College of Agricultural Sciences Photographs (P 036), Bioresource Engineering Department Records (RG 001), and the Bioresource Engineering Department Photograph Collection (P 106).
Detailed Description of the CollectionReturn to Top
Series 1: Photographs, 1919-1961Return to Top
Series 1 is comprised of 44 photographic prints and 3 negatives documenting the efforts of the Farm Crops Department from 1919-1961. These photographs include images of the various stages of crop production, equipment and machinery, and department faculty.
| Description | Dates |
|---|---|
P130:01: Barnyard grass seedlings
|
circa 1955 |
P130:02: Barnyard grass seedlings
|
circa 1955 |
P130:03: Phormium plants
Article "Fiber Crop Adapted to Oregon Coast" attached to back of photograph.
Same image as P130:04.
|
circa 1960 |
P130:04: Phormium plants
Same image as P130:03.
|
circa 1960 |
P130:05: Barn and hay loading
|
circa 1960 |
P130:06: Grass seed plants
|
circa 1960 |
P130:07: Harvesting grass seed
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circa 1960 |
P130:08: Irrigation sprinklers at work
|
circa 1960 |
P130:09: Grass seed packaged
|
circa 1960 |
P130:12: Field with grass seedling
|
circa 1960 |
P130:13: Bull eating alta fescue
Image caption: "That is a lot of bull"
|
circa 1960 |
P130:14: Apparatus used for exposure of seedlings to EPTC vapors
Image caption: "Apparatus used for exposure of seedlings to EPTC vapors consisting of a ring jelly mold, a 1 qt oil can and a plastic bag."
|
circa 1955 |
P130:15: Barnyard grass seedlings
Image caption: "Barnyard grass seedlings germinated on the surface of firmly packed soil under sealed plastic bag."
|
circa 1955 |
P130:16: Representative seven day old seedlings
Image caption: "Representative 1-day old seedlings germinated in rolled paper towels moised [sic] with water containing the indicated p.p.m. EPTC."
|
circa 1955 |
P130:17: Seventeen day old barnyard grass seedlings
Image caption: "Seventeen-day-old barnyard grass seedlings which emerged from soil having 3-6 p.p.m. of EPTC."
|
circa 1955 |
| circa 1955 | |
| circa 1955 | |
P130:20: Farm Crops faculty group portrait
Includes: Back row, left to right: Quentin Zielenskie, Bob Storm, Tex Fraser, Huger Kruger, Wilson Foote; Bottom row: Ernst Dornfeld, Jerry Li, J.R. Cowan, Paul Bernier, Ralph Bogart.
2 photographic prints.
|
circa 1960 |
P130:21a: Farm Crops faculty with visiting Russian scientists in Klamath Falls at Tulana Farms office
Includes: Front row, left to right: Eugene Varenitsa [?], Dick Henzel, Irene Trofemova [?], Ivan Uchenko; Back row, left to right: J.R. Cowan, John Martin, Alex Beck
|
1961 |
P130:21b: Field scales, Oregon Experiment Station
|
1923 |
P130:22a: Harry Schoth standing on the original plot of alta tall fescue
Image caption: "Mr. H. A. Schoth standing in the original planting of Alta fescue on the West Farm, Oregon State College, Corvallis, Oregon.
|
1950 |
P130:22b: Tall fescue
Image caption: "Tall fescue showing bagging and tagging procedures by J.R. Cowan in controlled breeding exp."
|
circa 1955 |
P130:23: J.R. Cowan examining nine days regrowth on culture 237
Image caption: "Dr. J. R. Cowan examining nine (9) days regrowth on Culture 237. Picture taken January 11, 1955. Plant was clipped on January 2."
|
January 11, 1955 |
| June 4, 1919 | |
| 1919 | |
| 1920 | |
| 1922 | |
| 1925 | |
| 1925 | |
P130:30: Grass cutting, Coos County
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1925 |
| 1926 | |
| 1926 | |
| 1927 | |
| 1927 | |
| 1927 | |
| 1929 | |
| 1929 | |
| 1932 | |
| 1944 | |
P130:40: Farm machinery for haying
|
1929 |
P130:41: Farm machinery for haying
|
1929 |
| 1929 | |
P130:43: Precision seeder banding fertilizer and sowing seed above the fertilizer bands
Negatve number S-236-6-60
|
June 1960 |
P130:44: Close-up of seeding and fertilizer banding units of precision seeder as set up to seed in two 36-inch rows
Negative number S-237-6-60
|
June 1960 |
P130:45: Rod Frakes measuring seed
1 photographic negative.
|
circa 1955 |
P130:46: Rod Frakes working in a greenhouse
1 photographic negative.
|
circa 1955 |
P130:47: Rod Frakes working in a greenhouse
1 photographic negative
|
circa 1955 |
Names and SubjectsReturn to Top
Subject Terms
Personal Names
Corporate Names
- Oregon Agricultural College. Department of Farm Crops.
- Oregon Agricultural College. Experiment Station.
- Oregon State College. Department of Farm Crops
Form or Genre Terms
Other Creators
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Corporate Names
Finding Aid Authors: Finding aid prepared by Karl McCreary; Revisions by Trevor Sandgathe.
2018
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