(Harriet's Photograph Collection #969)
Prineville Short Course in Home Economics, 1914.
The Oregon Agricultural College Extension Service offered short courses in a variety of areas, including agriculture, home economics, commerce, and industrial arts. This photograph was taken by F. E. Lafler of Prineville.
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E. R. Jackman, Extension Farm Crops Specialist, February 1948.
Jackman, a long-time Extension Service faculty member, was active in developing the wheat and seed crop industries in Oregon, and spent the latter part of his career addressing range activities. During his career he spent considerable time in Central Oregon assisting farmers and ranchers. A widely published author, he co-wrote The Oregon Desert with rancher Reub Long in 1964.
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A crowd at the Redmond railroad station waiting for the Dairy Demonstration Train, June 12, 1930.
The Dairy Demonstration Train was a cooperative effort between the OAC Extension Service and the Spokane, Portland & Seattle Railroad to provide Oregon's dairy farmers with "the latest information in dairy feeding, breeding, management, sanitation, marketing and increased consumption," according to a promotional brochure.
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Farmers and county extension agents looking over an irrigation structure, District Conservation and Irrigation Field Day, Jefferson County, June 1947.
In the 1930s and 1940s, federally supported irrigation projects were undertaken to provide the water needed to sustain agriculture in arid Central Oregon.
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Pig Club in front of the First National Bank, Bend, Oregon, ca. 1920.
Local businesses, such as Bend's First National Bank, often sponsored Industrial clubs, the predecessor to 4-H clubs.
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Subsistence garden at the outskirts of Redmond, Oregon, Deschutes County, August 3, 1933.
The effects of the Great Depression prompted the U.S. Department of Agriculture to promote the planting of subsistence gardens. Deschutes County had a total of 250 subsistence gardens in 1933. Photograph by the USDA.
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Dairy Demonstration Train and livestock in Redmond, June 12, 1930.
The train consisted of carloads of dairy stock and four exhibit cars. Beginning in Eugene on June 3, the train visited fifteen Oregon communities and one in Washington over the next ten days. At Redmond, the last stop on the tour, 2,727 people viewed the train, more than at any other stop.
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Headquarters for the Deschutes County Extension Service in Redmond, 1930.
Deschutes County, created in 1916, has had its own Extension office since 1919. This photograph appeared in the 1930 Deschutes County Extension annual report.
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Pine Tavern, Bend, Oregon, 1945.
This renowned Bend eatery was established in 1936 by two Oregon State graduates, Maren Gribskov ('18) and Marthan Bechen ('17), who had settled in Bend around 1919 and together opened the O.I.C. cafeteria. The Pine Tavern was featured in Duncan Hines' "Adventures in Good Eating." This photograph appeared in the June 1945 Oregon Stater.