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Emile Pernot Photographs, 1893-1895View associated digital content.

The Emile Pernot Photographs consist of photographs of Oregon Agricultural College buildings, classrooms, faculty, students, and cadets made by Pernot in the mid-1890s. Emile Pernot was hired by Oregon Agricultural College in 1890 to teach photography and take photographs for the Experiment Station.

Images from this collection have been digitized and are available in Oregon Digital.

ID: P 230
Extent: 0.25 cubic feet
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Statement on Access: Collection is open for research.
Arrangement
Preferred Citation: Emile Pernot Photographs (P 230), Oregon State University Special Collections and Archives Research Center, Corvallis, Oregon.
Acquisition Note: These materials were transferred from the Horner Museum collections to the University Archives in 1996.
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Container List

Series 1: Album, 1893-1895 Add to Shelf
Series I consists of an album of 48 mounted albumen prints depicting Oregon Agricultural College buildings, laboratories, students, and faculty. The series includes portrait photographs of all the Oregon Agricultural College faculty in 1894; the images were published in the 1894 Hayseed. Also of note are photomicrographs of plant materials.
Box-Folder 1.1 Add to Shelf
Item 1: Class in tile drainage Add to Shelf
President John M. Bloss and faculty member John D. Letcher are shown with the students on agricultural land west of Cauthorn (Fairbanks) Hall.
Item 2: New Horticultural Buildings and Photography Department Add to Shelf
George Coote standing in front of the greenhouse and Horticulture Building.
Item 3: Old Horticultural Buildings Add to Shelf
Item 4: Botanical Laboratory Add to Shelf
Item 5: Machine shop Add to Shelf
Item 6: Old Mechanical Hall, circa 1894 Add to Shelf
Brick structure; image includes water tower.
Item 7: New Mechanical Hall Add to Shelf
Wooden frame addition to brick building; water tower also visible in the image.
Item 8: Dynamo built by students fourth year Add to Shelf
Item 9: Wood work; first year Add to Shelf
Item 10: Iron work; second year Add to Shelf
Item 11: Plant specimen of Canada thistle Add to Shelf
Item 12: Plant specimen of sow thistle Add to Shelf
Item 13: Short horn cattle Add to Shelf
Item 14: Polled Angus Add to Shelf
Folder 15: Photomicrographs Add to Shelf
Photographs made with microscope showing a healthy and diseased onion top; adulterated and pure mustard; adulterated and pure lard crystals; oat ??; spiral tissue; stony tissue; sap cell of diseased peach limb; and cross section of peach limb.
Extent: 11 photographs
Folder 16: Beets Add to Shelf
A healthy beet leaf; a beet leaf eaten by a beetle; the beet leaf beetle; and a cross section of the beet root showing sugar cells.
Extent: 5 photographs
Item 17: John M. Bloss, President, 1894 Add to Shelf
Item 18: G.A. Covell, Professor of Mechanics, 1894 Add to Shelf
Item 19: J.D. Letcher, Professor of Mathematics, 1894 Add to Shelf
Item 20: J.B. Horner, Professor of English, 1894 Add to Shelf
Item 21: F. Berchtold, Professor of Language, History and Drawing, 1894 Add to Shelf
Item 22: George Coote, Professor of Horticulture, 1894 Add to Shelf
Item 23: F. L. Washburne, Professor of Geology and Entomology, 1894 Add to Shelf
Item 24: H. T. French, Professor of Agriculture, 1894 Add to Shelf
Item 25: G.W. Shaw, Professor of Chemistry and Physics and Station Chemist, 1894 Add to Shelf
Item 26: John F. Fulton, Assistant to Professor of Chemistry, 1894 Add to Shelf
Item 27: Moses Craig, Professor of Botany, 1894 Add to Shelf
Item 28: Margaret Snell, Professor of Household Economy and Hygiene Add to Shelf
Item 29: W.W. Bristow, Professor of Preparatory Department, 1894 Add to Shelf
Item 30: Ida B. Callahan, Assistant Preparatory Department, 1894 Add to Shelf
Item 31: Emile F. Pernot, Professor of Photography and Engraving, 1894 Add to Shelf
Item 32: Harley R. Clark, Professor of Printing, 1894 Add to Shelf
Item 33: Lieut. C.E. Dentler, Commandant, 1894 Add to Shelf
Item 34: E.M. Belknap, Instructor in Wood and Iron Work, 1894 Add to Shelf
Series 2: Albumen Prints, 1893-1895 Add to Shelf
Series II consists of 14 mounted albumen prints that were probably originally part of an album. The images depict Oregon Agricultural College buildings, classrooms, laboratories, and students.
Box-Folder 1.2 Add to Shelf
Item 1: Main college building, circa 1895 Add to Shelf
Benton Hall.
Item 2: College museum Add to Shelf
Item 3: Ladies Hall Add to Shelf
Alpha Hall.
Item 4: Cooking class Add to Shelf
Item 5: Cauthorn Hall, circa 1893 Add to Shelf
Fairbanks Hall.
Item 6: Class in surveying, circa 1893 Add to Shelf
John D. Letcher with students.
Item 7: English Department classroom, circa 1893 Add to Shelf
Item 8: College barn Add to Shelf
Octagonal barn.
Item 9: College cadets, circa 1894 Add to Shelf
In formation in front of Benton Hall.
Item 10: College cadets Add to Shelf
College orchard and Horticulture Building in background.
Item 11: Greenhouse interior Add to Shelf
Item 12: Class in grafting Add to Shelf
George Coote with students.
Item 13: Chemical laboratory Add to Shelf
Perhaps in the basement of the Station Building (now known as Benton Annex or the Women's Center building).
Item 14: Station building Add to Shelf
Now known as Benton Annex or the Women's Center building.