OREp179.xml Guide to the Fisheries and Wildlife Department Photographs 1938-1971 Oregon State University Fisheries and Wildlife Department Photographs Finding aid prepared by Elizabeth Nielsen. Oregon State University Libraries, University Archives 2009
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Finding aid encoded by Elizabeth Nielsen. 2009 Finding aid written in English. Finding aid based on DACS ( Describing Archives: A Content Standard). Oregon State University Libraries, Special Collections & Archives Research Center University Archives
121 The Valley Library Oregon State University Corvallis, OR 97331-4501 Phone: 541-737-2165 Email: archives@oregonstate.edu Web: http://osulibrary.oregonstate.edu/archives
P 179 Oregon State University. Dept. of Fisheries and Wildlife. Fisheries and Wildlife Department Photographs 1938-1971 1948-1969 0.3 cubic foot, including 400 photographs 1 box The Fisheries and Wildlife Department Photographs consist of images taken and assembled by the department that document fisheries and wildlife students, faculty, teaching, and research at Oregon State University, especially the research activities of the Oregon Cooperative Wildlife Research Unit. Materials in English. Historical Note:

The Fish, Game and Fur Animal Management Department was created in 1935 under the jurisdiction of the School of Agriculture. Roland E. Dimick was the first department chair, a position he held until 1963. The department operated the OSC Experimental Fur Farm from 1937 to 1957 and also established field stations on Protection and Eliza Islands in Puget Sound and a fisheries lab at Yaquina, Oregon. The department's name was changed to Fish and Game Management in 1936, and in 1964 was renamed Fisheries and Wildlife. Thomas G. Scott was department chair from 1963 to 1972.

The Oregon Cooperative Wildlife Research Unit was established in 1935 as a cooperative venture between the U.S. Biological Survey, the American Wildlife Institute, the Oregon State Game Commission, and Oregon State College. Arthur Einarson, U.S. Biological Survey research biologist, served as Unit Leader from 1935 to 1957, directing its graduate training and research programs. The unit was discontinued in 1961.

The Fisheries and Wildlife Department Photographs consist of images taken or assembled by the department that document students and faculty as well as the teaching and research programs in fisheries and wildlife. The bulk of the photographs were separated from the Fisheries and Wildlife Department Records (RG 190) and include photographs of big game field trips conducted by the department; a fish pond field day in Jefferson County in 1968; and several Oregon Cooperative Wildife Research Unit projects.

The big game field trip photographs are primarily group photographs of the students and faculty that participated in the annual trips; they also depict locations visited during the trips as well as guest leaders. The fish pond field day was sponsored by the Extension Service for a group of third graders at the Roy Stevenson farm in Jefferson County; the students may include Native American children from Warm Springs.

The Oregon Cooperative Wildlife Research Unit photographs depict projects pertaining to waterfowl, pheasants, duck and geese hunting, and antelope.

The collection also includes images of Fisheries and Wildlife alumnus Don Carr receiving the Distinguished Service Cross in 1971; Thomas G. Scott, department chair, presenting an award for best paper at the Oregon Wildlife Society meeting to Eleanor Horvitz; and a field trip to the Murderer's Creek deer range.

The collection consists predominantly of b/w prints and negatives; there are a few color prints included.

Collection is open for research.

Fisheries and Wildlife Department Photographs (P 179), Oregon State University Archives, Corvallis, Oregon.

Preliminary container list available online.

This collection is not fully processed; this guide is preliminary.

The photographs were transferred by the Fisheries and Wildlife Department in several accessions between 1981 and 1998.

Additions to the collection are expected.

The Fisheries and Wildlife Department Records (RG 190) include extensive documentation of the research conducted by the Oregon Cooperative Wildlife Research Unit. The papers of Fisheries and Wildlife Department faculty Carl E. Bond and Roland Eugene Dimick provide further documentation of research and teaching activities. Several collections in the OSU Archives contain images pertaining to fisheries and wildlife, including the Herman T. Bohlman Photograph Collection (P 202), William L. Finley Papers, E.E. Wilson Photographic Collection (P 101), and the Pacific Northwest Stream Survey Collection.

 Scott, Thomas G. (Thomas George) Oregon State University--Faculty. Oregon State University--Students. Oregon Cooperative Wildlife Research Unit. Oregon State College. Dept. of Fish, Game, and Fur Animal Management. Oregon State College. Dept. of Fish and Game Management. Oregon State College. Dept. of Fisheries and Wildlife. Oregon State University. Cooperative Extension Service. Game and game-birds--Oregon. Pheasants--Oregon. Pronghorn--Oregon. Wildlife conservation--Oregon. Wildlife management areas--Oregon. Film negatives. Photographic prints. Children and Youth Colleges and Universities Fisheries and Wildlife Oregon Corvallis Photographs