Ernest Cook Photographic Collection (P 221)
ca. 1890-1915
31 copy photographs and 31 negatives
Scope and Content Note
The collection consists of photographs taken and/or assembled by Ernest Cook and published in the OSU Research Forests oral history, Wanda Marcks Cook: The Story of the Sulphur Springs Stock Ranch. They include images of the Sulphur Springs Stock Ranch, the Cook family, and the OAC campus in the 1910s. Of particular note are images of the library quadrangle that show the Wilson House and Alpha Hall.
Forms
The materials are 35 mm b/w copy negatives made from the originals and duplicate prints.
Provenance
These copy negatives and prints were obtained by the Research Forests from Roy Cook, son of Ernest and Wanda Marcks Cook, for use in the Wanda Marcks Cook oral history publication and with Cook's permission were transferred to the OSU Archives.
Biographical Note
Ernest Sylvester Cook attended Oregon Agriculture College as a special student in agriculture during the 1910/11 academic year. He married Wanda Marcks in about 1913 and they lived on the Sulphur Springs Stock Ranch until 1922 when they moved to Portland.
Related Materials
The published oral history, Wanda Marcks Cook: The Story of the Sulphur Springs Stock Ranch, is available in the Oral History Collection (OH6:12).
Shelf Location
P shelves
Inventory
(P shelves)
These descriptions are taken directly from the OSU Research Forests oral history, Wanda Marcks Cook: The Story of the Sulphur Springs Stock Ranch, with minor editorial modifications.
Published Photographs - Un-numbered [arranged by page number, on left in italics]
- Title Pg Sulphur Springs Stock Ranch with Soap Creek and Writsman's Butte in the background, ca. 1914; taken from the western side of Lewisburg Saddle looking east. This photographs was first published in October, 1993 on page 81 of Chapter B to Comments on the Draft Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement on Management of Habitat for Late-Successional and Old-Growth Forest Related Species within the Range of the Northern Spotted Owl, which was prepared by the Northwest Forest Resources Council, Portland, Oregon, and the American Forest and Paper Association, Washington, D.C., as the principal forest industry response to the Clinton Plan for Northwest Forests.
- x Marcks Family Photo, ca. 1912. This picture of Wanda Marcks and her family was probably taken by Ernest Cook and shows Wanda as a teenager, a few years before her wedding to Ernest; to Wanda's left are her brothers, Raymond and Wallace, her sister, Florence, her mother, Helen, and her father, Louis.
- 54 Cook Family Photo, ca. 1890. This photograph of the Cook family shows William Hunt Cook, his daughters, Doris, Lucine (Lina), and Mary; sons John W. (left) and Tyrone P. (right), and wife.
- 84 Mrs. Marcks and Mrs. Tiffany, October 1920.
Published Photographs - Numbered [published on pages 56-60 and 70-75]
- 1 OAC campus scene, Corvallis, Oregon; this postcard may have been made from a photo by Ernest Cook. It shows Benton Hall from the northeast, sometime between 1905 and 1915.
- 2-4 Campus views; Roy Cook believes Ernest took them as a student around 1910.
- 2 Benton Hall
- 3 Benton Hall and Women's Center Building
- 4 Waldo Hall, Education Hall, and Benton Hall
- 5 Bandstand, ca. 1910.
- 6 Bandstand and library quadrangle, ca. 1910. This view shows the Wilson house on the current site of the library and Alpha Hall on the current site of Social Science Hall.
- 7 McAlexander Fieldhouse and athletic field south of Waldo Hall, ca. 1910.
- 8 Apperson Hall, ca. 1910.
- 9 Greenhouse, ca. 1910.
- 10 Machine shop, ca. 1910.
- 11-14 Views of the new family home for the Cooks were probably taken by Ernest around 1914; note size and spacing of trees around home at that time.
- 15 Growing corn, ca. 1914; note the foot of Bakers Mountain in the background.
- 16 Grain, man, and barn, ca. 1914; view of a Sulphur Springs Stock Ranch crop; photographer may be either Ernest Cook or Wanda Cook.
- 17 Old barn, ca. 1915; Roy Cook believes that this barn was probably located in Soap Creek Valley before the turn of the century.
- 18 Unidentified Soap Creek Valley cabin, ca. 1914; may be a school building or a teacher's cottage.
- 19-23 Sulphur Springs Stock Ranch, ca. 1914; Cook house visible in all photos.
- 19 Looks southwest, toward Sulphur Springs, with Kings Valley Ridge in the background.
- 20 Panorama of the southern portion of Soap Creek Valley with Bakers Mountain to the right.
- 21 Easterly view with Writsman's Peak in the left background and Coffin Butte in the center.
- 22 Southeasterly view with Coffin butte barely visible to the left and the northern slopes of Lewisburg Saddle on the right.
- 23 Close-up of fence.
Unpublished Photographs
- Cabin or farm building, ca. 1910s.
- Partially cleared land with stumps and possible slash burning.
