The Kadderly Papers consist of
agriculture-related materials produced or collected by Kadderly during his work
overseas as a farm broadcaster on the radio.
Funding for encoding this
finding aid was provided through a grant awarded by the National Endowment for
the Humanities.
Biographical Note
Wallace Kadderly was born in Portland, Oregon, on July 7, 1892. After he
received his degree in agriculture from Oregon Agricultural College in 1916, he
began working for the Cooperative Extension Service as a county agent in
Multnomah County, Oregon. In 1922 Kadderly was transferred to the central
office at Corvallis, where he was in charge of information and exhibits. In
1926 he was appointed program director of KOAC, the college-owned radio
station, advancing to manager in 1932. In 1933 Kadderly left KOAC to develop
the Western Farm and Home Hour for the United States Department of Agriculture,
serving as Radio Program Manager of the West Coast Division, headquartered at
San Francisco. From 1937 until 1945 he was chief of radio service for the
United States Department of Agriculture's office of information in Washington
D.C. Kadderly returned to Oregon in 1945 and became the first farm director for
radio station KGW in Portland.
In 1947 Kadderly began his foreign work. The Australian Broadcasting
Corporation requested his services as an expert on radio farm broadcasting, and
he spent several fact-finding months in Australia and New Zealand, on leave
from KGW. From 1950 to 1955 he served as agricultural information specialist
with the Economic Cooperation Administration (ECA) in Paris. This post-war
period took him to European countries to observe the progress in recovery under
the Marshall Plan. From 1955 to 1958, Kadderly did special contract work under
the auspices of the International Cooperation Administration (ICA, successor to
the ECA), in agricultural information methods in Japan, Taiwan, and numerous
Latin American countries, where he was based in Costa Rica.
In 1958 Kadderly returned to Portland, Oregon and was employed by KUIK
Radio in Hillsboro. In 1949, he served as President of the National Association
of Farm Broadcasters (NAFB), an association affiliated with radio broadcasting.
In July of 1963 Kadderly received the highest honor given by the American
Association of Agricultural Editors, the Rueben Brigham Award, for outstanding
contributions to agricultural communications. Kadderly was the first Northwest
recipient of this honor.
Kadderly retired in 1969. He was married to the former Alice Cornwall, a
1919 Home Economics graduate of OAC. He later married Ada Jeanette Reed, OAC
class of 1918 in Home Economics, who survived him, along with his stepson,
Donald Mayne. Kadderly died in Bend on 9 October 1983.
Content Description
Series I consists of maps, pamphlets,photographs, radio programs on
various agricultural subjects, handbooks, notes,and other correspondence from
Australia, Tasmania, New Zealand, and South Wales. Series II contains
photographs of agricultural events, agricultural booklets, and workshop reports
from several European countries that were part of the recovery program included
in the Marshall Plan after World War II. Series III contains books, pamphlets
and photographs of agriculture in Japan. Series IV consists of pamphlets
relating to agriculture, a map, and two sets of slides about farming in Taiwan,
Republic of China. Series V contains final reports of Kadderly's Costa Rica
assignment, field trip reports from each country he visited, correspondence,
workshop materials, photographs, seminar information on thirteen South American
countries, information on Brazilian history and pamphlets published by the U.S.
Department of Agriculture, both in Spanish and English. Some of the pamphlets
were published in Costa Rica. Of special interest are the personal comments
Kadderly noted on some of the reports.
Use of the Collection
Preferred Citation :
Wallace L. Kadderly Papers, Oregon State University Archives, Corvallis,
Oregon.
Administrative Information
Arrangement :
The collection is divided into five series, divided by the regions of
the world in which Kadderly worked.
Related Materials :
The Memorabilia Collection (MC) File of Wallace Kadderly contains news
clippings dated 1933 announcing his departure from KOAC. The KOAC records (RG
15) contain annual reports and other materials that Kadderly authored. The
Extension and Agricultural Experiment Station Communications Photograph
Collection (P 120) contains numerous photographs of Kadderly and others taken
by him. Other photographs of Kadderly are located in the Extension Service
Photograph Collection (P 62) and in Harriet's Collection (#269).
Detailed Description of the Collection
Series I: 1947 Australian Area Agricultural
Tour Records, 1931-1952
Container(s)
Description
Box
1
Travelogues,
itineraries, 1947
Australia
Box
1
Poems,
" Austeritalia" and
other poems, by Thomas Johnson, 1945
Charters of fictitious
clubs, presented to Kadderly in fun by Thomas Johnson, 1931-1937:
Box
1
Citizens of
Empire
1
The Early Morning
Club Un-Ltd
1
The League of Lovely
Australia
Maps and tourist
informational brochures, Victoria, 1938-1946
Box
1
Apollo
Bay
1
Beechworth
1
Bendigo the Golden
City
1
The Botanic
Gardens
1
Castlemaine and Vaugan
Springs
1
Geelong
1
Gippsland
Lakes
1
Travel in
Gippsland
1
The
Grampians
1
Melbourne's Parks and
Gardens
1
Mildura
1
Toora for the
Tourist
1
Warburton and the Upper
Yarra Valley
1
Travel in Victoria
Australia
1
Interesting Facts about
Victoria
1
Pamphlets, 1941-1947
Box
1
Adelaide, South
Australia
1
Australia's
Future
1
A Look at
Australia
1
Australia
Makes
1
Australia and
You
1
Australia Official
Handbook
1
Australian Rural
Industries
1
Brisbane
Illustrated
1
Melbourne Up
To-Date
1
South West Pacific
Annual
1
The Journal of the Dept. of
Agriculture of South Australia
Sunday Telegraph,
newspaper in Sydney, Australia, horse racing information, 6 April, 1947
Radio Program scripts
from Australia and after his return
Box
1
Mr. Kadderly's Visit
to Australia, 1947
1
Guest of Honour
Session by W. Kadderly, 3/30/1947
1
Agriculture in Other
Lands - Oregon, 4/10/1947
1
Country
Hour, 4/14/1947
1
Poultry Raising in
the State of Victoria, 4/17/47
1
A Visit to the Farm
Owned by Melbourne and Metropolitan Board of Works, 4/16/1947
1
National Farm and
Home Hour, 6/21/1947
1
George Moorad's
Program, 7/4/1947
1
Kadderly's Trip to
Australia, 10/28/1947
Maps
Map Case
*
Oceania and
Australia,
" New War
Map..." , ca. 1942
*
Theater of War in the
Pacific Ocean, Victoria, Australia, February 1942
Photographs
Box
2
Royal Agricultural
Society's Show, including state winners in National Jr. Farmer competition,
Australia, 1947
44 views
New Zealand
Agricultural
pamphlets, 1946-1947
Box
1
Canterbury
Agricultural College
1
Farming in New
Zealand
1
Primary Production in
New Zealand
1
Productive New
Zealand
1
The Empire's Dairy
Farm
Box
1
Tourist
booklets, 1945-1946, undated
Box
1
Automobile
Association Handbook, two editions
1
View of the Hot Lake
District Rotorua
1
Speech notes, speeches,
poem, brief reports, 1947
Maps
Map Case
*
North
Island, undated
Sheet 1, North Auckland; Sheet 2, Auckland -
Taranaki; Sheet 3, East Coast; Sheet 4, Automobile Association Motor Touring
Maps.
*
South Island:
Automobile Association Motor Touring Map, undated
*
" A New & Delectable
Map of New Zealand..." , undated
*
U.S. Army
Map, 1942
Tasmania,
pamphlets, 1946
Box
1
D'Entrecasteaux
Channel
1
Production Statistics,
1944-45
1
Power-The Hydro-Electric
Commission
1
Tasmania's East
Coast
1
Tasmania-Gem of the
South
1
Tasmania-Holiday
Island
Map Case
*
Map, New South Wales,
Department of Conservation, plan showing Water Conservation & Irrigation
Works, State Forests, Forest Reserves & Soil Conservation
Centres, 1946
2
Photographs, views of
livestock, fields, crops, trees, farm workers, farms, Hunter and Clarence
Rivers, with identification sheet, 1947
European Productivity
Agency reports from Austria, Western Europe, France, The Netherlands, England
& Wales, United States (University of Missouri), Germany, 1953-1955
1
Agricultural Information
field trip reports from Ireland, Germany, The Netherlands, Denmark, Greece,
Turkey, Italy, Sweden, Norway, Austria, Portugal, 1950-1955
1
Participants' reports on
European Agricultural Seminar Trip to Germany, Italy, France and Austria,
written by American agricultural information personnel from farm
publications, 1950
1
Home Economics in Europe,
separate reports for Norway, Italy, The Netherlands, Denmark, Austria,
Luxembourg, Belgium, France, Turkey, Greece, and Germany; summary report for 10
European countries, by Dr. Katherine Holtzclaw, 1950-1953
1
Home Economics Extension
Reports in Europe, by Mena Hogan, 1951
1
List of Agricultural
bulletins sent to each ECA country, 1950
Lists of agricultural films
used in European Cooperation
U.S. Information
Services in Austria, tourist brochures, ca. 1950
Photographs
Box
4
" Baby Chicks in
Austria" , 200,000 baby chicks flown to Hoesching, Austria from United
States, May 1952 (8 photos)
4
" Extension Training
Workshop in Austria" , 1953
5 photos
4
" Farm Broadcasters
and Journalists in Austria" , group touring and natives welcoming
them, 1952)
61 photos
4
Workshop
photographs taken by Dr. Ernest Nesius, Austria, 1952
11 photos
Sound
Recordings
Box
5
4-H Club Work in
Austria, two radio broadcasts, no script; first one-
" The Baby Chick
Project" ; second one - general story about Ivan Yankoff and Rosa
Rumpfhuber on the Rumpfhuber farm near Wels (?), ca. 1952
2 phonograph
records
5
4-H Interviews
from Vienna, three radio broadcasts with script, ca. 1952
Portugal: background
information, identification of photograph (no photograph), ca. 1950
Sweden
Box
6
Book of agricultural
information, Lapland and the Lapps, 1953
6
Report,
" Use of Agricultural
Press" , workshop at Sanga-Saby, sponsored by Organization for European
Economic Cooperation (OEEC), includes description of Swedish farms and Swedish
Ag. Press and Ag. Press in neighboring countries, 1954
4
Photographs,
" Use of Farm
Press" , workshop at Sanga-Saby, Sweden, 1954
10 photos
Turkey
Box
5
Sound Recording,
Agricultural Report in Turkey, by Dick Driscoll, February 1951
6
Radio programs,
transcriptions sent back to Nebraska, 1950
Series V: Latin American Assignments
Records, 1940-1963
Container(s)
Description
Box
7
Brazil - pamphlets showing
history, geography and resources of the area, 1955-1957
7
Field trip reports, British
Guiana, Brazil, Bolivia, Columbia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala,
Honduras, Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, 1955-1958
7
Extension Information
Seminar, Peru, guidebooks, 1957
7
USDA and Extension Service
resource pamphlets, 1940-1958
Oregon Extension Service
training resources
Box
7
" The Oregon Extension
Service and Program Planning" , 1951
Resources written by
Kadderly
Box
7
" Methods for Studying
Readability and Farmer Reaction" , 1954
7
" An Outline for Training
Extension Workers in Preparation and Use of Visual Aids" , 1959
7
Constitution and By
laws of Central American Association of Agriculture Information, 1957
7
Extension Training
materials, in Spanish, 1957-1963
7
Reports, Agricultural
case studies, used as training resources, 1954
Costa Rica
Box
7
Contract with U.S.
Missions, 1946
7
News article from Prairie
Farmer regarding Inter-American Institute of Agricultural Sciences, 1956
7
Final reports from Costa
Rica assignment, 1956-1957
7
Extension en las
Americas, publication of Extension work from Costa Rica, 12 issues in Spanish
with English translations inserted, 1956-1962
7
" Workshop for Agricultural
Press and Radio" , discussions, conclusions, and documents, 1956
8
Oversize photographs,
" Farm Press-Radio
Workshop" , Turrialba, participants including Wallace
Kadderly, March 1956
apx 12x17 in.
2 photos
Photographs
Box
4
" Visual Aids Training by
Enrique Sanchez, El Salvador" , February 13-20, 1957
5 photos
4
Inter-American Institute
of Agricultural Sciences building, Turrialba, 1956
one photo
4
" General American Extension
Information Seminar" , participants in seminar, 1957
