Emile Pernot Photographs, 1893-1895
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
Statement on Access: Collection is open for research.
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.
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.
- UnitID: Series I
- 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.
- UnitID: Series II
- 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.