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Extension Bulletin Illustrations Photograph Collection, 1915-1963
Overview of the Collection
- Creator
- Oregon State College. Federal Cooperative Extension Service.
- Title
- Extension Bulletin Illustrations Photograph Collection
- Dates
- 1915-1963 (inclusive)19151963
1920-1946 (bulk)19201946 - Quantity
- 1.2 cubic feet, including 2200 photographs, (8 boxes)
- Collection Number
- P 020
- Summary
- The Extension Bulletin Illustrations Photograph Collection consists of images that were created and assembled for use in Oregon State College Extension Service publications and county reports. They document extension activities in agriculture, home economics, and youth programs.
- Repository
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Oregon State University Libraries, Special Collections and Archives Research Center
Special Collections and Archives Research Center
121 The Valley Library
Oregon State University
Corvallis OR
97331-4501
Telephone: 5417372075
Fax: 5417378674
scarc@oregonstate.edu - Access Restrictions
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Collection is open for research.
- Additional Reference Guides
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Preliminary item-level container list available online.
- Languages
- English
Historical NoteReturn to Top
On July 24, 1911, Oregon Agricultural College's Board of Regents organized the Oregon Extension Service in response to requests from citizens of Oregon for assistance (particularly in agriculture) from the college. In May of 1914, nearly three years after Oregon had established its Extension Service, President Woodrow Wilson signed the federal Smith-Lever law, which provided federal money for the establishment of extension services in all states for developing off-campus programs, primarily in agriculture and home economics. The first home extension agents were hired in August 1917 to do wartime emergency work; several of the agents were retained by counties after World War I. By 1937, all counties had at least one county extension agent. During the Extension Service's first forty years, it concentrated on three traditional programmatic areas -- agriculture, home economics, and 4-H.
Content DescriptionReturn to Top
The Extension Bulletin Illustrations Photograph Collection consists of images (primarily black-and-white photographic prints) that were created and assembled for use in Oregon State College Extension Service publications and county reports. They document extension activities in agriculture, home economics, and youth programs. Of particular note are images of the World War II period including Bracero and other farm workers in the Emergency Farm Labor Service; other wartime extension activities; and the relocation of Japanese-Americans residing in Oregon.
Use of the CollectionReturn to Top
Preferred Citation
Extension Bulletin Illustrations Photograph Collection (P 020), Oregon State University Archives, Corvallis, Oregon.
Administrative InformationReturn to Top
Arrangement
Most of the images are individually numbered, beginning with item number 379. The preliminary container list presents the images in numerical order with descriptions transcribed from the photographic prints.
Processing Note
This collection is not fully processed; this guide is preliminary.
Related Materials
Photographs of the Bracero workers are also available online in the Braceros in Oregon Photograph Collection. The Extension Service Records document the administration and programmatic activities of the OSU Extension Service. The OSU Archives' includes many collections of photographs documenting agriculture in Oregon as well as Extension Services activities in the state. Two collections of note are the Extension Service Photographs (P 62) and the Extension and Experiment Station Communications Photographs (P 120).
Names and SubjectsReturn to Top
Subject Terms
- 4-H clubs--Oregon.
- Agricultural laborers--Oregon.
- Agricultural machinery--Oregon.
- Agricultural extension work--Oregon.
- Agriculture--Oregon.
- Crops--Oregon.
- Home economics extension work--Oregon.
- Livestock--Oregon.
- World War, 1939-1945--War work--Oregon--Schools.
Form or Genre Terms
- Glass negatives.
- Nitrate negatives.
- Photographic prints.
Other Creators
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Corporate Names
- Oregon Agricultural College. Extension Service. (creator)
- Oregon State University. Extension Service. (creator)
Finding aid prepared by Elizabeth
Nielsen.
2007
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
