By Finding aid prepared by Karl McCreary; Revisions by Trevor Sandgathe and Sydney Klupar
Title: Farm Crops Department Photographs, 1919-1961
ID: P 130
Primary Creator: Oregon State College. Department of Farm Crops
Extent: 0.05 cubic feet. More info below.
Arrangement: The Farm Crops Department Photographs are comprised of one series: Photographs, 1919-1961. The photographs are arranged in the order assigned during the collection's preliminary processing.
Languages of Materials: English [eng]
The Farm Crops Department Photographs illustrate the research activities of the Farm Crops Department. The photographs in this collection include images of crop production, the use of agricultural machinery, and department faculty between 1919 and 1961.
Images from this collection have been digitized and are available in Oregon Digital.
The Farm Crops Department Photographs are comprised of 46 unique images (44 prints, including 1 duplicate, and 3 negatives) documenting planting, care, harvesting, and transportation of farm crops, especially grasses; use of farming tools and machinery; and Farm Crops Department faculty members.
Images in the collection primarily depict plants such as barnyard grass seedlings, phormium, and fescue and land under cultivation by both horse drawn and mechanical farm equipment at the Oregon Experiment Station. Department faculty, such as Ritchie Cowan, Harry A. Schoth and Rod Frakes, are also pictured in these photographs.
The photographs in this collection have been assigned numbers P130:01-P130:47 (P130:10 and P130:11 are not extant). Images from this collection have been digitized and are available in Oregon Digital.
First organized and recognized as a department in 1916, the Farm Crops Department was established to coordinate research efforts in crop experimentation at the Oregon Agricultural Experiment Station. Prior to 1916, Experiment Station research had been directed by the Department of Agronomy, which was established in 1907.
Among the projects undertaken by the Farm Crops Department was the management of the Seed Testing Laboratory, cereal investigation, cooperative extension work with farmers, and research in chemical weed control. Many of these projects were joint cooperative arrangements with the USDA. In 1971, the Department was renamed Agronomic Crop Science and again, in 1977, to Crop Sciences. In 1990, the Crop Science and Soil Science Departments merged to form the Department of Crop and Soil Science.
A history of the department, written by Farm Crops professors Donald W. Hedrick and Robert E. Fore in 1967, has been digitized and is available in Oregon Digital.
More Extent Information: 1 box; 44 photographic prints and 3 photographic negatives
Statement on Access: This collection is open for research.
Acquisition Note: The Farm Crops Department Photographs were accessioned by the Oregon State University Archives in the 1960s. The collection is now housed in the Special Collections and Archives Research Center. P130:010 and P130:011 are not extant.
Related Materials:
Materials documenting the history and evolution of the Farm Crops Department can be found in the Crop Science Department Records (RG 095), the Crop Science Department Photographic Collection (P 134), and the Oregon State University Memorabilia Collection (MSS MC).
Other materials relating to OSU's role in agricultural research include the Te May Ching Papers (MSS Ching), the Agricultural Experiment Station Records (RG 025), the Agricultural Experiment Station Photographic Collection (P 029), the College of Agricultural Sciences Records (RG 158), the College of Agricultural Sciences Photographs (P 036), the Bioresource Engineering Department Records (RG 001), and the Bioresource Engineering Department Photograph Collection (P 106).
Preferred Citation: Farm Crops Department Photographs (P 130), Oregon State University Special Collections and Archives Research Center, Corvallis, Oregon.
Processing Information: The finding aid for this collection was originally published in 2000. It has been updated to reflect current arrangement and description best practices.
Oregon State College. Department of Farm Crops
Oregon Agricultural College. Department of Farm Crops
Agricultural machinery--Oregon.
Cowan, J. Ritchie (John Ritchie)
Crops--Research--Oregon.
Frakes, Rodney Vance, 1930-
Grasses--Oregon.
Natural Resources
Oregon Agricultural College. Department of Farm Crops
Oregon Agricultural College. Experiment Station
Oregon State College. Department of Farm Crops
Schoth, H. A. (Harry August), 1891-
University History
Film negatives.
Photographic prints.