Agriculture Photographic Collection (P 40)

Inventory
1    Horses drawing wheat combine, Eastern Oregon, ca. 1910
2    Automobile in wheat field, Klamath Co., ca. 1910 (photo by Miller
       Photo Co.)
3    Hay cutting, ca. 1910
4    Tractor pulling threshing equipment, ca. 1925
5    Combining wheat with horses, Eastern Oregon, ca. 1910
6    Three horses pulling small combine?, ca. 1910
7    Mounding hay, ca. 1910 (USDA photo)
8    Farm scene with haystacks, ca. 1900
9    Potato digging apparatus (horse drawn), ca. 1910 (USDA photo)
10   Potato planting apparatus (horse drawn), ca. 1910 (USDA photo)
11   Agriculture students standing around a sheep, ca. 1900 (Benton
       Hall can be seen in background; Wilson and Withycombe houses?
       on bandstand site)
12-13  Cornfields; Horses drawing corn picker
14   Tree spraying apparatus (Joaquin Miller box), ca. 1910
16   Tree spraying apparatus, Yamhill Co., ca. 1910 (Weister Co.
       Photo, Portland)
17   Concrete well platform & hand pump, ca. 1910
18   Well digging operations - well driller suitable for making
       irrigation well, ca. 1908
19   Diseased sheep with inset of microscopic picture of germs
20   Rogue River Valley pear trees in bloom, ca. 1915
21   OSC Dairy Dept. worker pouring milk, ca. 1935
22   Lambs infested with a disease, at feed trough, ca. 1930
23   Medford Experiment Station buildings and laboratory, ca. 1940
24   Evans Pasture, grazing sheep in Western Oregon, ca. 1950
25   Farm house, barn & orchard, ca. 1900 (photo in decorative
       paperboard frame)
26   Portland school children working in vegetable gardens during
       World War I, ca. 1918
27   Tomato plant in triangular frame, ca. 1915
28   Winter protection of grapes, ca. 1895
29   Sheep and auctioneer, ca. 1950
30   Larkspur plant, just after the most dangerous stage, ca. 1910
31   Non-infested lambs at feeding trough, ca. 1930
32   Onion field on reclaimed Lake Labish bog (yield 400 sacks per
       acre), ca. 1930
33   Views of work done by Oregon's Agricultural Experiment Stations
       (montage), ca. 1925
34   Aerial view of the Umatilla Branch Experiment Station, ca. 1940
35   A 12-acre field of Ladak alfalfa sown in the Spring of 1934,
       Harney Co. (total yield of 7.19 tons per acre on the first
       cutting in 1938)
36   Hop yard (Kuhlman) shown during growing season, ca. 1930s
37-40  Orchards in Hood River during the growing season - in full
       bloom (37) and later in the season with the ground plowed
       around the trees (38-40), ca. 1925
41   Boys in a front yard with farming tools, ca. 1905
42   Sugar pine tree (type of timber at stake in the fight on rust),
       ca. 1940
43   Verticillium wilt (raspberry bush?)
44   "Dinner with the cows" - Del Martin Honor Banquet in the cow
       milking barn, ca. 1925
45   Mules pulling three wagons full of sacks containing flour(?)
       across a plain (Canada?), ca. 1900
46   View from Linkmen Orchard tract, Albany, showing improved portion
       in the distance, ca. 1935
47   Woman taking picture in blooming peach orchard, ca. 1930
48   Milk pick-up outside the OSC dairy barns, ca. 1950
49   Farmer spraying apple tree in orchard, ca. 1935
50   Sheep being shown for sale or show, with full coat after winter
51   Ditch for pipeline to be used for carrying off waste and overflow
52   White pine killed by rust
53   Grading seed corn, Spokane, ca. 1920 (photo by Christian,
       Spokane)
54   Onions with jack-knife
55   Milk running into milk cans, OSC, ca. 1950
56   Three very high record cows for sale, ca. 1915 (photo postcard)
57   Chicks in a pen, showing how pen is arranged when first put under
       the Petaluma electric brooder, ca. 1925
58   OSC Stationary Brooder House, ca. 1950
59   Close-up of the Stationary Brooder House, showing its window and
       cel-o-glass frame, ca. 1950
60   Tree felled in the forest and sawed into sections, ca. 1920
       (photo by Weister Co., Portland) 
61   Hand-made harrow made of wood and metal spikes, ca. 1920
62   Boys in beet? field thinning, weeding, or harvesting, ca. 1890
63   Graduation portrait of Yashiko ____, given to Dr. Helen Gilkey
       (photo by Ball Studio, Corvallis)
64   75th Anniversary of OSC-class representatives taking part in the
       Charter Day procession in 1943
65   Man showing bush beans in bean field, ca. 1960
66   A handmade cart used to move hogs from pen to pen, ca. 1910 
67   Old fashioned farm machinery in field with men [missing]
68   Cover and picture of walnut orchard, in bulletin 315 from
       Extension Stations [missing]
69a-b  Fox farm pens, ca. 1950 (1 print & 2 negatives)
70   Field with trees in background, ca. 1920
71   Tree trunk and roots with toad stools around the roots, ca. 1940
72   Man in field taking sample from ground? with test tubes and jar
73   View of mountains and two small lakes, ca. 1930
74   OSC chicken coops, ca. 1930
75   Chickens in brooder house?, ca. 1930
76   View of kale field with farmhouse in background, near Corvallis,
       ca. 1925
77   Barred Plymouth Rock hen, ca. 1930
78   Apple tree attacked by mushroom root rot, ca. 1920
79   Pacific International Livestock Exposition, Nov. 3-9, 1923 -
       poster pictures of four varieties of cows
80-81  Plant and root system laid out for inspection
82-83  "Eldorado" grape on wire trellis, ca. 1895
84   Drawing on chart of cutworm & moth, ca. 1900
85-86  Close-up pictures of two leaves with encysted form of liver
       fluke; used in Experiment Station Bulletin 360, March 1939
87   Homemade chicken coops with two hens nesting on eggs, ca. 1910
88   State Game Lodge, ca. 1925 (photo postcard by Lease)

89-162 Emergency Farm Labor Service photographs (images 95-162
       probably taken by Fred Shideler):
89   Potato digger, Klamath Co.?, ca. 1942
90   Woman digging potatoes, Klamath Co.?, ca. 1942
91   Sinks at farm labor camp, Klamath Co.?, ca. 1943
92   Tents at Malin farm labor camp, Klamath Co., ca. 1945
93   Tents at Malin? farm labor camp, ca. 1943
94   Trailers at farm labor camp, ca. 1943
95-96  Potato digging, Klamath County, 1945
97   Tents at Malin farm labor camp, Klamath County, 1945
98   Building at Malin? farm labor camp, 1945
99a-104 Lane County, Coburg farm labor camp, 1945: 
     99a  Office tent, 1945
     99b-101  Tents, 1945
     102  Close-up of tent showing woodstove and table, 1945
     103  Farm labor camp entrance sign, 1945
     104  Shower tents, 1945
105a-d Umatilla County, Milton-Freewater farm labor camp, July 1945:
     a  Central administration and utility building
     b  Section of tent houses
     c  Closeup of a tent house
     d  Laundry room
105e Milton-Freewater farm labor committee & joint chamber of commerce
       development committee, July 1945  View this image.
106  Umatilla Canning Co. pea viners, July 1945
107  Umatilla County, Milton-Freewater farm labor camp shower
       facility, 1945 
108-113 Farm live-in trainees, OSC, June 1945:
     108a  Cleaning dairy barn stalls (neg. only)
     108b  Tractor instruction (neg. only)
     109   Chris Starr supervising fence construction
     110   Washing milk cans
     111   Russell Adams & Starr observing boy digging post holes
     112   Milking cow
     113   Starr giving tractor instruction  View this image.
114  Bucket boy who did the heavy work for the women peach pickers,
       Marion Co., August 1945
115  Barbara Hendrickson & Pat Wilson picking cherries at the Fred
       Kirkwood orchard, Hopwell, Yamhill Co., August 1945
116  Hop pickers Dorothy & Olgo Brutke of Amity at the Fred Viesko hop
       yard west of Gervais, August 1945
117  Peach pickers at LaFollett orchards near Gervais, Marion Co.,
       Aug. 1945
118-119 Mrs. H. B. Simpson's platoon of bean pickers, Marion Co.,
       Aug. 1945
120  "Bean Pickers Wanted" display at Miller's Dept. Store, Salem,
       Aug. 1945
121  Marion County farm labor recruitment billboard, 1945  View this image.
122  Platoon leader Mrs. H. B. Simpson showing how to pick beans at
       R. L. Goss yard west of Stayton, Marion Co., August 1945
123a-d Camp Adair soldiers picking beans at Tannehill yard, Jefferson,
       Linn Co., 1945
124  Two women with buckets of filberts, ca. 1945
125-128 Wasco County farm labor camp tents, The Dalles, July 1945  View this image.
129  Hoeing hops, ca. 1945
130  Harvesting hops, ca. 1945
131a-f Flax harvesting, Benton Co. Flax Growers Cooperative near
       Monroe, ca. 1945
132  Farm workers (children) sitting on boxes waiting to go to
       fields?, ca. 1945
133  Man and two women looking at strawberries, ca. 1945
134  Two women talking (same building as in #132), ca. 1945
135-136 Farm workers and school buses, ca. 1942  View an image of this topic.
137  Group in front of Administration Building, University Homes
       (Portland?), waiting to be picked up to go to fields, ca. 1942
138  Farm workers (children) waiting by building (same as #132 & 134),
       ca. 1945
139a-b Women hoeing strawberries, ca. 1944 
140-142 Men from Camp Adair Naval hospital hoeing grass field as part
        of recuperation, 1945  View an image of this topic. 
143-147 Soldiers picking hops, ca. 1945
148-150 German prisoners of war (P.O.W.s) picking beans, ca. 1945  View an image of this topic.
151  Soldiers getting on truck to go to fields, ca. 1945
152a-b Cooper ranch hopyard truck with soldiers, ca. 1945  View an image of this topic.
153  Soldiers in truck to go picking, ca. 1945
154  Soldiers sitting in truck on way to fields, ca. 1945
155a-j Extension displays on labor saving equipment and routines,
       ca. 1945
156  Mabel Mack & two women holding peaches (LaFollett orchard?),
       ca. 1945
157  Two women sacking beans, ca. 1945
158  Women & children farm workers in truck, Corvallis?, J. R. Beck at
       right, ca. 1945
159  Women hoeing strawberries, ca. 1945
160  Two women staking hops, ca. 1945
161  Five women hoeing hops, ca. 1945
162  Farm live-in trainees treating fence posts, Chris Starr
       supervising, June 1945

163-255 92 prints of various aspects of agriculture, mostly non-
        Oregon; many probably used in WESTERN FARMER (167, 220, 233
        removed - drawings):
163  Potato field in Bonneville Co., Idaho, ca. 1910
164  Cattle and horse - design for event program or poster, ca. 1920
165  Display of Idaho potatoes, ca. 1920
166  Cattle feeding at trough (Indiana?), ca. 1915
168 & 173 Pigeon cote, ca. 1920
169-171 Army carrier pigeon cote, ca. 1920
172  Modern pigeon cote, ca. 1920
173  Dairy cow, ca. 1920
175  Woman holding turkey, ca. 1915 (photo by R. R. Sallows, Goderich,
       Canada)
176  Dairy cow, ca. 1915
177  Beef cattle, ca. 1915
178  Students observing yearling steers in feeding sheds, Washington
       State College, ca. 1915
179  Horse (halftone image)
180  Barn & man with two mules, ca. 1920
181  Man & two mules, ca. 1920
182  Sunflower Dairy, O. I. Peterson, Astoria?, ca. 1910 (photo by
       Elmer? Coe)
183  Montage of photos used in WESTERN FARMER?, ca. 1915
184  Championship ewe, 1921 (photo by Acme, Portland)
185  Sheep grazing near farmhouse, ca. 1910 (photo by H. Pollard,
       Calgary)
186  Spring lambs at Experimental Farm, Lethbridge, Alberta, ca. 1920
187  Provincial Parliament Buildings, Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada,
       ca. 1920
188  Bungalow house, ca. 1910 (Dennison Photo, Spokane)
189  Old & new houses & buildings of R.G. Bull - Namao, Edmonton,
       Alberta, ca. 1920
190-192 Dairy cows, ca. 1915
193  Pigs from the Greenleaf Farm feeding at trough, Klamath Co.,
       ca. 1910
194  Beef cow, Sir Bessie Homestead Johanna Fayne, ca. 1915
195  Champion Reserve Angus Herd, ca. 1915
196  Dairy cow, ca. 1915
197  Kansas beef cattle?, ca. 1920
198  Cattle in Denver? stockyards, ca. 1920 (photo by Hildebrand)
199  Registered Holstein bull calf, Carnation King Sylvia, owned by
       Carnation Milk Stock Farms, Seattle & Oconomowoc, WA, ca. 1915
200  Unidentified banquet group, ca. 1900
201  Banquet group, Commercial Club, St. Paul (Minn.?), June 15, 1903
202  Picnic group, ca. 1900
203  Unidentified group (agricultural editors?) in front of building,
       ca. 1925 (photo by Foote & James, Winnipeg?)
204  Prominent members of the Chalmers Herd, 1913
205  Brooks Aqueduct, ca. 1920
206  Agricultural editors of the U.S. visiting the Saskatchewan
       Co-operative Elevator Co. office, Regina, August 1925
207-208 Ag. editors in Winnipeg?, ca. 1925 (similar to #203)  
209  Fruit packing plant, ca. 1930
210  House, ca. 1910
211  View of residence, Cochrane ("CC") Ranch, Alberta, Canada,
       ca. 1900
212  Banquet group and band in costumes, ca. 1910
213  Pioneer Stock & Seed Farm barn, ca. 1915
214  Mousetrap (used to illustrate article "Practical Mousetrap"),
       ca. 1900
215  Barn & silos, ca. 1920
216  Blue-berried elder tree, ca. 1925
217  Farmstead with fir covered hill in background, ca. 1910
218  "A Common Farmer" photo postcard of a child, ca. 1915 (photo by
       Fern Studio, Tappenish, Wisconsin)
219  General purpose barn, H. M. Thompson, Ellendale, Minn., ca. 1915
221  Sherbrooke Band - composed largely of farmers in the community,
       ca. 1910
222  Young girl in field of Sweet William, ca. 1915
223  Varieties of corn, ca. 1910
224  Carnation King Sylvia, junior her sire, Carnation Stock Farms,
       ca. 1920
225  Milking Shorthorns, Santa Rosa Stock Farm, ca. 1920
226  Calf, ca. 1915
227  Portable milking machine, ca. 1920
228-229 Bulls presented to Washington State College, ca. 1920
230  Two dairy cows, ca. 1900
231  Woman & child with broken bowl, ca. 1900
232  Mary? Reinhard & 54 lb. watermelon, Santa Rosa, CA, ca. 1905
234  Field of sweet clover?, ca. 1910
235  Hay drying in field, ca. 1910
236  Field of winter wheat & vetch, Ferndale, Washington?, ca. 1910
237  Apple orchard & strawberries, 6 months after cleaning, Silver
       Birch Farm, Newport, Washington, ca. 1910
238  Calves being measured (height & length)
239  Pigs grazing in a field, ca. 1915 (photo by Frank Palmer,
       Spokane)
240  Woman with rounds of cheese, ca. 1915
241  Chicken being held
242  2nd prize pullet, H. E. Sellwood, Portland, Dec. 1914 (photo by
       Orlen Royce) 
243  Experimental grape training, Kansas State Agricultural College,
       1898
244  Group in front of Prosser, Washington?, High School, ca. 1910
245  Barn & silo, Beach Farm Dairy, Coldwater, Michigan, ca. 1910
246  Two young children, ca. 1915
247  Pelican Bay Lodge (Harriman Lodge), Upper Klamath Lake, Oregon,
       ca. 1915 (photo by Miller Photo Co., Klamath Falls)
248  Pigs asleep in pig barns at University of Idaho, April 8, 1919
249  Boys Pig Club exhibit at local fair, Twin Falls Co., Idaho,
       Oct. 1915
250  Macadam road with V-shaped foundation at Russell, Mass., ca. 1910
251  "The Splinter," young girl removing splinter from toe of young
       boy, ca. 1910
252  Arrangements of produce -- wheat shocks, corn stalks, onion
       bunches, beets, ca. 1910
253  Wheat grown on irrigated land by J. A. Cammeart, Strathmore,
       Alberta, ca. 1910 (photo by B. Pollard, Calgary)
254  Group eating lunch Sturgan Valley, Canada?, ca. 1900
255  Birds eye view of Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan?, Canada, ca. 1900
255a Part of the Charles Bayest Farm, Sumas?, Washington, ca. 1905
       (photo by Corbett)

256  Farm machinery class - two men studying a Caterpillar tractor,
       ca. 1910
257  Farm machinery class - students studying engines, chassis to a
       Flanders, plows, ca. 1910
258  Patterns of tools & engine parts made by OAC students, ca. 1910
259  Page Walton Orchard, cherry trees in bloom, ca. 1940 (3 prints)
260  Grain samples, ca. 1910
261  Farm machinery at State Fair, 1914
262  Milk weighing equipment, May 1911
263  Fred Schaad, Rex, Oregon, with prize corn crop which won him a
       trip to the San Francisco fair, 1915
264  Pasture viewing, ca. 1920
265  Pig demonstration meeting at Winona Berkshire Ranch,
       August 5, 1916
266  Hamilton Bros. onion patch, ca. 1900
267  Rye field - example of dry farming, central Oregon, 1917
268  Farm machinery - brush cutter attachment on tractor, ca. 1930
269  Chicken inspection, ca. 1915
270  Corn crop, Claus C. Charley, August 1914?
271  Clear cut area - poor timber management, ca. 1920
272a Corn field at branch Experiment Station in Redmond?, 1912
272b Corn harvesting, ca. 1950 (2 prints)
273  Farm crops - Foote, Hardin, Sen. Wayne Morse, Cowan, Jensen,
       ca. 1962
274  Group looking at tractor and other farm machinery, ca. 1940
275  Hay rake, ca. 1940
276  Hay loader on truck, ca. 1942
277  Conveyor belt for loading hay on back of truck, ca. 1940
278  Dr. Gustav Hans Wilster with Dairy Club members, ca. 1930
279  Windmill in field with barn, eastern Oregon, ca. 1970 (print &
       neg.)
280  Aerial view of west campus agricultural land, July 27, 1957
       (Western Ways photo)
281  "Rupert," OAC 379 Grand Champion Steer, with Ben Rodenwald & 
       P.M. Brandt, 1939
282  Two children in a blackberry field, ca. 1900 (print made from
       glass negative)

283-315 Emergency Farm Labor Service photographs (286-315, negs.
         only; photos probably taken by Fred Shideler):
283-285 Oregon State Farm Labor Conference attendees, Oregon State
        College, Jan. 9-10, 1945  View an image of this topic.
286-287 Jamaican laborers working on a pea viner, Umatilla County,
        1945  View an image of this topic.
288  Shirley Christy and Luz Zorquira at the OSC Dairy Maids training
       school, 1944
289-290 Picking cucumbers (Columbia Co.?), ca. 1944
291  Jamaican workers?, 1945
292-293 Labor saving demonstration, ca. 1944
294  Farm labor camp (unidentified), ca. 1945
295-296 Picking pears?, ca. 1944
297-301 Harvesting (or thinning) tree fruit, ca. 1945
302  Women's Land Army workers dumping peaches into crates, LaFollett 
       Orchards, Salem, ca. August 1945
303  Workers showing crates of cucumbers, ca. 1944
304  Mexican workers picking cucumbers, ca. 1944
305-309 Picking beans, ca. 1945
310  Pickers breaking for lunch, ca. 1945
311-312 Picking hops, ca. 1944
313-315 Berry picking, ca. 1945

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