Pernot Family Photographic Collection (P 220)

ca. 1870-1940
41 copy photographs, 1 albumen photograph, and 41 negatives

Scope and Content Note

Collection includes copy photographs of Pernot Family and Coote Family members, Oregon Agricultural College, and Corvallis. Also includes one original albumen print. Some of the photographs were taken by OAC faculty member Emile Pernot. Negatives exist for all photographs.

Provenance

Collection was acquired by Horner Museum in 1986 and 1987 from Mabel Pernot, daughter of Emile Pernot, and transferred to the University Archives in August 1996.

Biographical Notes

Emile F. Pernot was born in New York in 1859. He accompanied his brother, Henry, to Oregon in 1889, and together they opened a photography business. In 1890 Pernot was hired by Oregon Agricultural College to teach photography and to take photographs for the Experiment Station. Through his pioneering work in microphotography, he developed an interest in bacteriology, and was named the first chair of the Bacteriology Department in 1900. In 1910 Pernot was named bacteriologist for the city of Portland. He married Edith Coote, daughter of OAC horticulturalist George Coote. Pernot died in 1927.

John F. "Jack" Pernot and Frederick E. Pernot were sons of Eugene Pernot (another of Emile Pernot's brothers). John was born in 1890 and graduated from OAC in 1910 with a degree in Forestry. He worked for the U.S. Forest Service until his accidental death in 1914. Frederick was also born in 1890, and graduated from OAC in 1910 in Engineering. He taught electrical engineering at the University of California, and died in 1968.

Related Materials

Several other photographic collections include photographs taken by Emile Pernot, including the OSU Historical Photographic Collection (P 25), the College of Agricultural Sciences Photographic Collection (P 36), the Alice Kidder Evans Photographs (P 144), and Harriet's Photographic Collection.

Other collections include photographs of Pernot Family members: Emile Pernot, Faculty and Staff Photographic Collection (P 46) and Harriet's Collection (#3, #413, #612, and #1573); Edith (Coote) Pernot, OSU Historical Photographic Collection (P 25) and Harriet's Collection (#612 & #1229); and John F. Pernot, Harriet's Collection (#1573). See also MC - Pernot, Emile F., and MC - Pernot, Mabel.

Shelf Location

P shelves

Inventory

• 1 Willamette River at Corvallis; paddlewheelers at wharf below mill and warehouses, ca. 1900
• 2 Paddlewheelers Three Sisters and Wm. M. Hoag on the Willamette River at Corvallis wharves, ca. 1900
• 3 George Coote in OAC greenhouse (semi-tropical room), ca. 1895
• 4 Portrait of George Coote, ca. 1895 (photo by W. S. Gardner, Corvallis)
• 5 Edith Coote in OAC greenhouse with geraniums, gloxinias, cinerarias, calceolaria, cyclamen, ferns, and other plants, ca. 1895
• 6 Pernot Family -- Eugene, Emile, Lucie, Henry, and Charles, September 1, 1881
• 7 Mrs. Mary A. Coote (grandmother Coote), Mrs. Blower of Newport, and unidentified (from a photopostcard to Mrs. Coote from Aimie Pernot, Newport, August 23, 1913)
• 8 Portrait of Mary A. Coote, ca. 1920 (photo by Ball Studio, Corvallis)
• 9 Portrait of George Coote, ca. 1895 (similar to P 220:4; photo by W. S. Gardner)
• 10 Portrait of Emile F. Pernot, ca. 1880 (photo by Webb & Keller, Philadelphia)
• 11 Portrait of Emil F. Pernot, ca. 1890 (photo by Pernot Bros., Corvallis)
• 12 George Coote family home, SW corner of Monroe & 23rd, ca. 1900
• 13 OAC greenhouse semi-tropical unit, ca. 1895
• 14 Train engine and cars, ca. 1890 (copy photograph and original albumen photograph)
• 15 Flooded house at confluence of Willamette and Mary's Rivers, ca. 1885
• 16 Benton County Courthouse, ca. 1890 (photo by Pernot Bros., Corvallis)
• 17 Corvallis (OAC in distance) from 2nd and Adams Streets, ca. 1890 (photo probably taken from the water tower along 1st Street)
• 18 "Sliver Thaw," along Willamette River in Corvallis north of Van Buren Street Bridge site, ca. 1890 (stereoview image)
• 19-20 John F. "Jack" Pernot, (Emile Pernot's nephew & 1910 OAC graduate), U. S. Forest Service, next to log structure in Ochoco National Forest, ca. 1914 (split pea soup cooking in background)
• 21 Portrait of Edith Coote, ca. 1895
• 22 Portrait of Edith (Coote) Pernot, ca. 1895
• 23-25 Portraits of Edith (Coote) Pernot, ca. 1900
• 26 Edith (Coote) Pernot in wedding dress ("going away"), ca. 1900
• 27 Edith (Coote) Pernot, 1918 (photo appeared in Society section of Oregon Journal)
• 28 Edith (Coote) Pernot standing in yard with Angel the dog, Portland, ca. 1916
• 29 Edith (Coote) Pernot standing outside of Nye Beach (Newport) summer house, ca. 1917
• 30 Portrait of Mary Annie (Harvey) Coote (mother of Edith Coote Pernot), ca. 1870 (photo by D. Nottie, Beckenham, England)
• 31-32 Portrait of Mary A. Coote, ca. 1915
• 33 Emilie Caroline Pernot (mother of Emile Pernot) in Riverside, age 88, ca. 1924
• 34-35 Emilie Caroline Pernot, age 92, ca. 1928
• 36 Portland home of Emile Pernot and family from 1910-1925, ca. 1910
• 37 Kappa Psi initiation banquet, Portland, ca. 1915 (Emile Pernot 5th from left)
• 38 OAC faculty members, ca. 1910 (Emile Pernot is on left in 1st row)
• 39 Frederick E. Pernot (nephew of Emile Pernot and a 1910 OAC graduate), ca. 1940
• 40 Walk in OAC campus, ca. 1910 (original is a photo postcard)
• 41 OAC Administration Building (now Benton Hall), ca. 1890 (photo by Pernot Bros., Corvallis)