- Bioresource Engineering Department Photograph
Collection (P 106)
Inventory
NOTE: All negatives and large format color transparencies are stored
separately at 2/3/8
(P shelves - Box 1)
Photographs From Annual Reports and Other Research Reports:
1-6 From Harvesting and Farm Seed 1956 annual report:
1 Suction harvester for seed showing rotating finger ground
scratcher [S-67-7-55]
2 Suction harvester in field, showing close-up of vibrating
finger agitator
[S-73-9-55]
3 Suction harvester in field, showing front view of
rotating chain agitator
[S-74-9-55]
4 Suction harvester in field, showing front view of
rotating brush agitator
[S-76-9-55]
5 Commercial electrostatic separator for minerals [S-85-4-56]
6 Portable hoist modified to serve as elevator [S-86-4-56]
7-9 Case combine and tractor [from in Small Seed Harvesting 1958
annual report; S-106-7- 57, S-107-7-57, S-108-7-57]
10-11 From Small Seed Harvesting & Processing Investigations 1962
annual report:
10 First model of mechanical vibrator feeder driven with and
electric motor and cam [S-262-11-60]
11 Mechanical vibrator feeder [S-280-8-61]
12-15 From Harvesting and Farm Seed 1956 annual report:
12 Seed cleaning lab [S-78-4-56]
13 High-speed screening device for seed [S-87-4-56]
14 Draper seed separator [S-81-4-56]
15 Electrostatic seed separator developed by graduate student
16-17 Small seeds researcher conducting field investigations [from
Small Seed Harvesting & Processing Investigations 1962 annual report;
S-285-9-61]
18 Seed blender [from in Harvesting and Farm Seed 1956 annual
report; S-79-4-56]
19-22 From in Small Seed Harvesting & Processing Investigations 1962
annual report:
19 Seed separating equipment? [S-155-1-59]
20 Small seeds researcher in the field [S-288-9-61]
21 Equipment [S-282-8-61]
22 Small seeds researcher in the field [S-289-9-61]
23-24 From Small Seed Harvesting 1960 annual report:
23 Cutting seed crop with a tractor and attachments [S-208-9-59]
24 Combine [S-210-9-59]
25-34 From Small Seed Harvesting 1961 annual report:
25-27 Combining seed crops at Hyslop farm? [S-252-8-60,
S-254-8-60, S-249-8-60]
28 Close-up view of a seed combine [S-251-8-60]
29 Researcher in the field [S-257-8-60]
30-34 Equipment [S-271-3-61, S-270-3-61, S-258-10-60,
S-230-4-60, S-155-1-59]
35-39 Seed dryer manufactured by Arnold Dryer Company, ca. 1955
40-42 Cattle branding squeeze chute
43-49 Truck loading chute; J. S. Guttridge
50 Case A-6 combine, 1959 [S-210-9-59]
50a Case A-6 combine, 1957 [S-108-7-57]
51-55 From 1951 Fiber Flax Processing Investigations annual report:
51 Harvesting flax (color print)
52 Flax processing, 1946 [FX-323-11-46]
53 Flax processing, 1950 [FX-419-11-50]
54 Loading flax on trailer [FX-422-51]
55 Santiam flax processing plant, Jefferson, Oregon; pilot
plant for fiber flax processing research project [FX-415-11-50]
56-61 From report on 3rd National Potato Conference, Grand Forks, ND,
March 1951:
56 Flatt 2-row separator
57 Noffsinger 1-row combine
58 Bean 1-row combine
59 Lockwood 1-row combine
60 Advanced bin loader
61 Dahlman 2-row potato combine
62 Harvested flax straw drying in field in wigwams, Benton County
flax mill, Sept. 1943 [from 1950 Fiber Flax Processing Investigations
annual report; FX-202-9-43]
63 Case Combine, July 1957 [from progress report on A-6 Case
combine; S-106-7-57]
64 Flax loader [from 1950 Fiber Flax Processing Investigations
annual report]
65-74 Testing the Arnold Portable Dehydrator [from report, summary of
Dehydration Tests of Arnold Portable Dehydrator, August 1948]
75-88 From Agricultural Handbook - Seed Cleaning and Handling, June 1959:
75-86 Seed cleaning and handling equipment
87 Seed warehouse [S-187-5-59]
88 C. M. Volkman & Co. seed store and warehouse [S-184-5-59]
89-94 From 1947 Fiber Flax Processing Investigations annual report:
89 Experimental flax puller equipped with double needle
binder and separator stop, July 1946 [FX-288-7-46]
90 Oregon City Foundry new flax puller, 1946 (photo by Leo
F. Simon)
91 Flax deseeder binder with separator stop, Mt. Angel Flax
Growers Plant, 1946 [FX-304-10-46]
92 Bacteriology lab retting apparatus used in flax retting
studies, Oregon State College, 1947 [FX-336-4-17]
93 Galvinometer, thermocouple, and recording thermometers as
installed in the Northwest Flax Production Plant during test, July 1946
[FX-278-7-46]
94 Inclined scutcher feed table equipped with conveyors and
butters, Washington County Flax Growers Plant, Cornelius, Oregon, Nov.
1946 [FX-320-11-46]
95 Beetling, scutching and hackling flax; from an old engraving [FX-334-3-47]
96 Electric Steam Boiler dairy sterilizer
97 Dairy water heater
98 Irrigation pump, 7 1/2 h.p.
99 Irrigation of clover pasture, Tillamook County
100 Leveling strips for flood irrigation in Clackamas County, Stahely
Bros. 20 acres
101 Silage cutter, 4 tons per hr. with 5 h.p. electric motor at
Oregon State College Dairy Barn; farm truck at left, 1929
102 Bob Warrens with 10 h.p. irrigation pump & motor
103 Portable irrigation unit for celery irrigation by flooding, C. K.
Ogura farm, Marion County, ca. 1935
104 Electric hotbed, ca. 1935
105 Cows in pasture of ladino clover, Stahely Bros.
106 Hay chopping, Oregon State College Dairy Barn, 1929 (photo by
Howell's Studio)
107 Automatic feed grinder installation in OAC Poultry Plant, May
1928 (photo by George Kable, Corvallis)
108 Irrigating corn
109 Ensilage cutter with 5 hp GE motor, Robert Clark farm, Salem,
Fall 1935 (see P106:115)
110 Turkey poults in electric brooder with C. J. Hurd, Fred Wiese
farm, Corvallis, 1930 (photo by F. Earl Price)
111 Preparing strip borders for flood irrigation, Stahely Bros., Clackamas
112 DeLaval cream separator, 1925 (photo by Graves Studio)
113 Wood Bros. electric brooder for turkeys, ca. 1930
114 Electrically operated bull exerciser, with P. M. Brandt and J. J.
Van Kleek, OSC campus
115 Ensilage cutter on Robert Clark farm, Fall 1935 (see also P106:109)
116 Sow and piglets
117 Electric pig brooder
118 Leveling strips for flood irrigation, Taylor Guernsey Dairy Farm
119 Strawberry plant - Corvallis variety, ca. 1940
120 Strawberry plant - Ettersburg variety, ca. 1940
121 Preserve cooker on scale, ca. 1940
122 Vacuum pan for cooking preserve
123 Vacuum sealing machine
124 Refractometer for determination of soluble solids
125 Rod type wheel guard and vine lifter with nozzle attachment
126 Solid shield vine parters with rod wheel guards
127 Tractor sprayer showing power take-off and front wheel guards
128 Line shaft on side of tractor also 55 model vine lifters on rear wheel
129 Open framework spring steel vine lifter and wheel guards
130 Crop dusting -- TBM in low flight application showing spray
curtain from win tip boom segment
131 Crop dusting -- TBM making spray application for mid-wing boom
segment pattern studies
132 Crop dusting -- N3N airplane dust application with extended
distribution tubes
133 Air turbulence study equipment on runway
134 Government-owned N3N making flight over water pan and captive
balloons in study on air turbulence
135 12-foot spray boom mounted on rear of tractor; parallel piped
boom adjustment
136 Rear view of duster with semi-circular hooded boom during
heptachlor dust application
137 Front view of hood boom duster during application of heptachlor
dust on clover plots
138 Rear view of dust distributors showing take-off to distributor
tubes and hydraulic gate opener
139 Front view of airplane showing dust tubes extended
140 Air scoop to airplane dust distributor showing throat divisions
141 Top view of fluted rotor for metering dust and showing porous air
tubes mounted
142 Ground duster metering gate & shut-off
143 Dust metering gate used with tractor mounted duster
144 Crop dusting -- Government-owned N3N showing dust and spray installation
145-147 [no images with these numbers]
148 First model of mechanical filbert harvester, Agricultural
Experiment Station, 1943
149 Commercial inclined draper, 1959 [S-196-5-59]
150-153 Illustrations from Rudinsky's paper on Balsam Wooly Aphid.
154 Square and round minors tested in tension
155 Round minor set in grips ready for testing
156 Grips for square minors designed after those in TM-112
157 Grips for round minor specially designed for the side study
158 Standard jig for making the tension parallel to grain minors
(similar to TM-112)
159 New air-operated jig for making tension minors
160 Six 2"x4" douglas fir, dimension showing tension failure and
plywood plates on ends
161-162 Close-up photos of 2"x4"s showing failure
163 Douglas-fir, Oregon white oak and grass vegetation types on the
McDonald Forest; soil on the grass in foreground is a Cove clay
164 Non-forested opening on the McDonald Forest bordered by Oregon
white oaks and mixed Douglas-fir/white oak types; soil is Climax clay
165 Cut-over Douglas-fir stand in McDonald Forest with thick ground
cover of grass, bracken fern and blackberry; soil is Aiken clay loam
166 Agriculture fair, 1922 (4x5 copy negative only)
167-249 Harvesting equipment and laboratory analysis of grass & cover
crop seed:
167 [S-82-4-56]
168 [S-83-4-56]
169 Researchers in seed cleaning lab [S-78-4-56; see also P 106:12]
170 Draper seed separator in seed cleaning lab [S-81-4-56;
see also P 106:14]
171 Seed blender [S-79-4-56; see also P 106:18]
172 Electrostatic separator for minerals [S-85-4-56; see also P106:5]
173 [S-84-4-56]
174a High-speed screening device for seed [S-87-4-56; see also
P 106:13]
174b Mist-O-Matic [S-88-4-56]
175 [S-89-4-56]
176 Case tractor pulling thresher [S-10-7-53]
177 Tractor pulling thresher [S-13-7-53]
178 Massey-Harris combine [S-14-7-53]
179 Massey-Harris thresher [S-1-7-53]
180 John Deere thresher [S-4-7-53]
181 Thresher [S-6-7-53]
182 Farmall tractor pulling Case thresher [S-55-8-54]
183 Tractor pulling Dearborn combine [S-12-7-53]
184 Oliver combine [S-8-7-53]
185 Massey-Harris thresher [S-15-8-53]
186 Thresher [S-16-8-53]
187 John Deere tractor pulling Case thresher [S-17-9-53]
188 Tractor pulling combine [S-18-9-53]
189 Tractor pulling combine [S-19-9-53]
190 Top view of experimental field reclaimer for shattered
seed [S-71-7-55]
191 Experimental Field reclaimer for shattered seed with
brush cover in place
[S-66-7-55; used in 1955 Seed Harvesting Investigations
annual report]
192 Suction harvester for seed showing rotating finger ground
scratcher [S-68-7-55]
193a Suction harvester with rotating brush agitator in crimson
clover field, front view [S-76-9-55; see also P 106:4]
193b Suction harvester in crimson clover field, showing front
view of rotating chain agitator [S-74-9-55; see also P 106:3]
194 Suction harvester in crimson clover field, showing
close-up of vibrating finger agitator [S-73-9-55; see also P 106:2]
195 Remodeled suction harvester with rotating chain agitator
in crimson clover field [S-99-8-56]
196 Cockshutt suction? harvester [S-137-8-58]
197 Tractor pulling Case suction? harvester [S-108-7-57]
198 Case suction? harvester [S-109-7-57]
199 Tractor pulling suction harvester in field [S-110-7-57]
200-201 Farmall tractor pulling suction harvester
202 Looking at straw refuse from harvester
203-204 Suction harvester in action
205 Farmall tractor pulling suction harvester
206 Remodeled suction harvester with rotating chain agitator
in crimson clover field [S-98-8-56]
207 Seed samples? [S-41-9-53]
208 Samples taken from the rack and shoe during the 2-canvas
1953 harvesting test [S-43-9-53]
209 Processing the combine rack sample in laboratory to
recover unthreshed, damaged, and threshed seed to determine
the rack and cylinder losses [S-44-5-54; used in 1955 Seed
Harvesting Investigation annual report]
210 [S-45-5-54]
211 [S-46-5-54]
212 Bagging seed samples [S-47-5-54]
213 Separating seed from straw by hand [S-48-5-54]
214 [S-50-5-54]
215 Analyzing seed samples [S-51-5-54]
216 Sorting seed samples in the laboratory to analyze the
loss and damage [S-52-5-54; used in 1955 Seed Harvesting Investigation
annual report]
217 Test truck loaded with samples and equipment at the
completion of the experiment [S-59-8-54; used in 1955 Seed Harvesting
Investigation annual report]
218 Equipment tray in test truck [S-60-8-54]
219 Cutting samples by hand in the field [S-23-8-53]
220 Cutting samples by hand in the field [S-24-8-53]
221 Cutting samples by hand in the field [S-25-8-53]
222 Cutting samples by hand in the field [S-26-8-53]
223 Bagging seed samples in the field after cutting [S-27-8-53]
224 Preparing to vacuum plot area [S-28-8-53]
225 Vacuuming plot area to collect shatter losses [S-29-8-53]
226 Bagging the vacuumed seed sample [S-30-8-53]
227 Vacuuming 1/1000 acre plot to collect shatter losses;
test truck with generator and equipment drawer in background [S-58-8-54;
used in 1955 Seed Harvesting Investigation annual report]
228 Adjusting vacuum harvester [S-32-9-53]
229 Running combine harvesting test with Case harvester
pulled by a tractor in alta fescue using the two canvas method
and 1/100 acre section of the field [S-56-8- 54]
230 Holding 2 canvasses in position to catch straw walker material
on one and shoe material on the other over a measured
distance in windrowed highland bentgrass [S-34-8-53]
231 Collecting combine sifting loss sample from a Massey-Harris
harvester in bent grass harvesting using the canvas and
1/100 acre plots [S-35-8-53]
232 Bagging straw material collected on canvas [S-36-8-53]
233 Samples taken from a single test to determine the seed
production, loss, and damage in harvesting alta fescue [S-37-9-53]
234 Combining a grass field [S-2-7-53]
235 Windrowing a grass field with John Deere equipment [S-3-7-53]
236 Windrowing a grass field [S-20-8-53]
237 Harvesting equipment in grass field [S-21-8-53]
238 Harvesting equipment in grass field [S-22-8-53]
239 Windrowing grass onto paper [S-93-8-56]
240 combining lotus that has been windrowed on paper [S-95-8-56]
241 Seed sample on paper [S-96-8-56]
242 Seed equipment [S-53-5-54]
243 Seed equipment [S-54-5-54]
244 Seed equipment [S-61-9-54]
245 Plot thresher with cover removed exposing the adjustable
sive for cleaning between seed lots [S-63-11-54; used in 1954 Seed
Harvesting Investigations annual report]
246 Plot threshing machine [S-65-11-54]
247 Plot threshing machine with graduated air, cylinder speed
and clearance, and screen opening as well as special features
for ease of cleaning between plots [S-64-11-54; used in 1954 Seed
Harvesting Investigations annual report]
248 Plot thresher with cylinder in open position exposing the
cylinder and bars for ease of cleaning between seed plots [S-62-11-54;
used in 1954 Seed Harvesting Investigations annual report]
249 Flax puller
250-252 [no images with these numbers]
253-256 Hopper bottom bin for flat-bed trucks built by W.C. Lewis & Son,
Rickreall, Oregon
257 Model "M" tractor with #51 mower cutting second cutting of 2 1/2
ton per acre of alfalfa hay; James McDonald operating machine on the
Sorensen ranch, Ellensburg, Washington (promotional photo from John Deere
Plow Co.)
258 #51 mower with model "M" tractor mowing Timothy and grass hay
four tons per acre on Jim McDonald ranch--young McDonald operating,
Ellensburg, Washington (promotional photo from John Deere Plow Co.)
259-260 Desk and display rack for plans
261-262 Jensen beet thinners machine developed by Vernal Jensen
and Coulson Parrish of the research and development section of
the Amalgamated Sugar Company; a self-propelled, four-row vehicle to
carry sugar beet blockers and thinners as they work.(12x17 oversize box)
263 Fox Field Harvester and Field Trailer harvesting grass silage at
the J. J. Astor Experiment Station, Astoria, Oregon (photo by A.N.
Thorndike, Astoria)
264-266 Cattle chutes
267 Fencing and gates (2 images; 12x17 oversize box)
268-279 Illustrations from publication on hay drying in Oregon
by Dale E. Kirk including dryers, blowers, and storage
structures, ca. 1950
280 Exhibit panel, "Industrial Uses of Farm Crops - Fiber Flax,"
showing production steps; prepared by the Bureau of Agricultural
Chemistry and Engineering of the U.S. Department of Agriculture, ca. 1940
(oversize cabinet drawer 7)
281 [duplicate print moved to FX-269-6-46]
282-283 Self-propelled flax puller (photos by Leo F. Simon,
Portland; see FX-311-10-46 for another view)
284-287 [duplicate prints transferred to locations with like prints]
288 Scutching wheel demonstrating how the knives strike the fiber
when in operation, 1925 (Photo by Canadian Government Motion Picture
Bureau & provided to W.M. Hurst by the Canadian Dept. of Agriculture)
289-298 Photos from report on performance of the experimental
bundle spreading device in handling retted fiber flax bundles by
University of Minnesota, 1946:
289 General view of the experimental bundle spreading device
showing a bundle entering at the right and spread material
being discharged.
290 Bundle spreading machine showing the primary and
secondary spreading forks.
291 Bundles as received from the USDA laboratory with
identification numbers as used in report.
292 Bundle no. 5 after it had passed through the machine.
293 Bundle no. 2 as it was discharged by spreading device.
294 Bundle no. 3 after spreading. Some material was cut from
each end of the bundle prior to spreading.
295 Bundle no. 4 after spreading.
296 Bundle no. 4 with board tilted to obtain a near-top view.
297 Bundle no. 6. The ends of this bundle were combed before spreading.
298 Bundle no. 8. Eight inches were cut from the butt end
and a small tuft removed from the head end prior to spreading.
299-301 Illustrations for deseeding circular (5x7 negatives only,
299-300; negative and print for 301)
(16x20 oversize box)
302-312 Agricultural Engineering Graduates, 1952-1964;
composites of individual b/w portrait photographs:
302 Class of 1952 - Agricultural Engineering
303 Class of 1953 - Agricultural Engineering
304 Class of 1955 - Gen. Agriculture with Agric. Engineering Emphasis
305 Class of 1956 - Gen. Agriculture with Agric. Engineering Emphasis
306 Class of 1957 - Gen. Agriculture with Agric. Engineering Emphasis
307 Class of 1958 - Mechanical Technology in Agriculture
308 Class of 1958 - Agricultural Engineering
309 Class of 1959 - Agricultural Engineering; includes L.
Edwin Coate (OSU VP for Finance & Administration, 1986-1992)
310 Class of 1961 - Mechanical Technology in Agriculture
311 Class of 1963 - Mechanical Technology in Agriculture
312 Class of 1964 - Mechanical Technology in Agriculture
(P shelves - box 1)
313 Unidentified equipment (2 views)
314 Radiation trailer, Oregon State University Extension Service, ca.
1970 (color slide)
315-316 Small tractor pulling spray rig, August 1978 (color slides)
317-319 Lily fields, August 1978 (color slides)
Unnumbered images:
Hops field (print only)
Crane loading harvested hops vines? onto wagons (copy print only)
Trees covered with snow
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