Oregon State University
University Archives
121 The Valley Library
Oregon State University
Corvallis, OR 97331-4501
Phone: 541-737-2165
Email: archives@oregonstate.edu
Web: http://osulibrary.oregonstate.edu/archives

Guide to the Agricultural Engineering Department Motion Picture Films, 1947-1968


P 106 (F/V)







Encoded by, 2004
Funding for encoding this finding aid was provided through a grant awarded by the National Endowment for the Humanities.


Overview of the Collection
 
Repository Name:
 

Oregon State University
University Archives

121 The Valley Library
Oregon State University
Corvallis, OR 97331-4501
Phone: 541-737-2165
Email: archives@oregonstate.edu
Web: http://osulibrary.oregonstate.edu/archives
 
Collection Number:
 

P 106 (F/V)
 
Creator:
 

Oregon State University. Agricultural Engineering Dept.
 
Title:
 

Agricultural Engineering Department Motion Picture Films
 
Dates:
 

1947-1968 (inclusive)
 
Quantity:
 

0.1 cubic feet
6 film reels
 
Languages:
 

Materials in English. 

 
Summary:
 

The Agricultural Engineering Department Motion Picture Films document the development of mechanical harvesting equipment by Oregon State University researchers in the 1960s and the fiber flax industry in the Willamette Valley in the 1940s.
 

Content Description

The Agricultural Engineering Department Motion Picture Films document strawberry harvesting in Oregon in the 1960s, especially the development of mechanical harvesting equipment by Oregon State University researchers, and the growing and processing of fiber flax in the Willamette Valley in the 1940s.

Arrangement

The films have been assigned individual numbers (P106:1-6).

The films are 16 mm, in black and white as well as color. All of the films are silent, except the flax film (P106:6) which includes a soundtrack.

Use of the Collection

Restrictions on Access 

Collection is open for research.

Preferred Citation 

Agricultural Engineering Department Motion Picture Films (P 106), Oregon State University Archives, Corvallis, Oregon.

Related Information

Related Materials 

Other motion picture films of strawberry harvesting are part of the Extension and Experiment Station Motion Picture Films and Videotapes (P 120) and Experiment Station Communications Films (P 132). Several hundred color slides of strawberry harvesting are part of the Bioresource Engineering Photographic Collection (P 106). The Dean E. Booster Papers include research records and photographs documenting the development of a mechanized strawberry harvester.

The Bioresource Engineering Department Records (RG 1) include materials related to flax research. Photographs of flax growing, processing, and research are part of the Bioresource Engineering Department Photographic Collection (P 106).

Subjects

Agriculture--Research--Oregon.
Berries--Harvesting--Oregon.
Flax industry--Oregon.
Flax--Processing--Oregon--Willamette River Valley.
Strawberries--Oregon.
Motion pictures (visual works).
Silent films.
Other Creators :
Oregon State College. Agricultural Experiment Station.
United States. Dept. of Agriculture.

Detailed Description of the Collection

 

Strawberry harvesters
 
 
Container(s)
Description
 
box
1

Number P106:1:   1967
 
 


Number P106:2:   Clipper, 1968
 
 


Number P106:3:   ca. 1960s
 
 


Number P106:4:   Stripper
 
 
 
box
1


Number P106:5:  Strawberry harvesting

color
 
 
box
1


Number P106:6:  Fiber Flax Growing and Processing in the Willamette Valley of Oregon, ca. 1947

18 min.
16 mm, color, sound
Produced by the Cooperative Research Project of the US Department of Agriculture and the Oregon State College Agricultural Experiment Station.


Description from the 1953 Department of Visual Instruction catalog: "Scenes of the growing, harvesting, and processing of fiber flax in the Willamette Valley. Planting, chemical weeding, mechanical pulling, seeding, retting, processing, and use of flax fibers."