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Title: Agricultural Engineering Department Motion Picture Films, 1947-1968

ID: FV 106

Primary Creator: Oregon State College. Department of Agricultural Engineering

Extent: 0.1 cubic feet. More info below.

Arrangement:

The films have been assigned individual numbers (P106:1-6).

The films are 16 mm, in black and white as well as color. All of the films are silent, except the flax film (P106:6) which includes a soundtrack.

Languages of Materials: English [eng]

The Agricultural Engineering Department Motion Picture Films document the development of mechanical harvesting equipment by Oregon State University researchers in the 1960s and the fiber flax industry in the Willamette Valley in the 1940s. Items from this collection have been migrated to digital format and are available online.

The Agricultural Engineering Department Motion Picture Films document strawberry harvesting in Oregon in the 1960s, especially the development of mechanical harvesting equipment by Oregon State University researchers, and the growing and processing of fiber flax in the Willamette Valley in the 1940s.

More Extent Information: 6 film reels

Statement on Access: Collection is open for research.

Related Materials:

Other motion picture films of strawberry harvesting are part of the Extension and Experiment Station Communications Moving Images (FV 120) and the Experiment Station Communications Films (FV 132). Several hundred color slides of strawberry harvesting are part of the Bioresource Engineering Department Photograph Collection (P 106). The Dean E. Booster Papers (MSS Booster) include research records and photographs documenting the development of a mechanized strawberry harvester.

The Bioresource Engineering Department Records (RG 001) include materials related to flax research. Photographs of flax growing, processing, and research are part of the Bioresource Engineering Department Photograph Collection (P 106).

Preferred Citation: Agricultural Engineering Department Motion Picture Films (P 106), Oregon State University Special Collections and Archives Research Center, Corvallis, Oregon.

Other URL: A preliminary container list was created for this collection on or before November 30, 2015.

Oregon State College. Department of Agricultural Engineering
Oregon State Agricultural College. Agricultural Experiment Station
United States. Department of Agriculture

Agriculture--Research--Oregon.
Berries--Harvesting--Oregon.
Flax--Processing--Oregon--Willamette River Valley.
Flax industry--Oregon.
Natural Resources
Oregon State University. Department of Agricultural Engineering
Strawberries--Oregon.
University History

Motion pictures (visual works)
Silent films.