Inventory
1-18 E. R. Jackman and The Oregon Desert publicity, ca. 1964:
1 Close-up of E. R. Jackman leaning against a fence (also 16x20 oversize print)
2 Jackman writing
3 Jackman at Albany Kiwanis Club podium
4 Jackman in a field
5 Jackman with a horse and colt
6 Jackman in a field
7 Jackman in a field by a fence
8 Jackman with cattle
9 Jackman with cattle, silos in background
10 Jackman with horse
11 Jackman leaning on a fence post
12 Jackman and Art Jaeger
13-16 Parade float advertising The Oregon Desert, Sept. 1964 (color prints)
17 Bill Hall, E.R. Jackman, Bill Cyrus
18 Jackman and three other men with the book The Oregon Desert
19-26 Horses
27-28 [removed from collection]
29-53 Range improvement; William Currier, Rube Long, E. R. Jackman
54-62 Reub Long
63 Reub Long and E. R. Jackman in front of a church, 1962 (color slide; see P89:565
for b/w copy negative)
64 Reub Long and E. R. Jackman (color slide; see P98:38 for color print)
65-103 Cattle ranch photographs:
65 Bailing hay
66 Stacks of hay bails
67 The Venator ranch is typical of many. Isolated, shaded by lombardy poplars, bay
lands along the creek, a reservoir to store winter run-off, surrounded by range lands
for miles
68 Branding irons
70 Starting the pack on one of Reub Long's horses (photo by Jones Studio,
Lakeview, Oregon)
71-72 Cattle drive (photos by Joe Van Wormer, Bend, Oregon)
76 Blacksmith
77 The bell is rung at an Eastern Oregon ranch house and the family and hired hands
gather at meal time
78 Corral fence made from willows from a nearby stream
79 This cave was carefully explored and sandals were found buried under volcanic
dust; they were nearly 10,000 years old
80 Meat house on Harney County ranch
81 Jack rabbits undercutting hay in winter
82 The only supply of water in the desert east of Bend is from windmills. On Reub
Long's holdings there are no streams or lakes; 1937
83 Haystack with protective fencing
84 Hole is middle of alkali lake bed. Ft. Rock in background
85 Quarter Circle 'U' Ranch in Big Horn County, Montana, June 1939 (photo by Arthur
Rothstein, Farm Security Administration)
86 Herding cattle (photo by Harmon, Agricultural Adjustment Administration)
87 Branding calves on Eastern Oregon ranch (Oregon Historical Society photo)
88 Branding on Harney County ranch
90-91 Eleanor Long, left, and Reub with some neighbors gather to move some of Reub's
cattle (photos by Joe Van Wormer)
92 Cattle moving from winter feed grounds in spring to range in Harney County
93 Cattle in the distance trailing from the range to the hay meadows in Harney County
94 Cattle feeding on hay in corral
95 The "drag" take more effort than all the rest of the herd
96 A large outfit in Harney County is moving their cattle from range to meadow. This
process of moving livestock to follow the grass has been going on since Biblical days
97 Pond made by catching run-off water when the snow melts (photo by Harmon,
Agricultural Adjustment Administration)
98 Completed yellow pine trough. This trough has a ten-foot water space and 100
gallon water capacity. It is 20 inches wide, 14 inches deep, and 10 feet long. The
average length of time spent on construction is 16 man hours per trough. This time is
inclusive from the first step in falling the tree until the final work has been completed.
It is four miles south of Gibbon, Umatilla County, Oregon; Jan. 14, 1936
99 "Shootin' the Breeze;" cowboys on horses (photo postcard by H. H. Sheldon)
100 Meat type and performance is what cattle are selected for on the A Bar L (Williams')
ranch and other ranches in Grant County
101 Scales change the picture from number of cattle to pounds of beef produced on the
J. W. Southworth ranch near Seneca, Grant County, Oregon
102 Marcus Haines trailing his high quality cattle to summer range. He ranches on Blitzen
River near the big wild life refuge
103 Two men holding rope for cattle branding
104 Old barn on the Whitehorse Ranch. Wind vane is a white horse; 1899
105 An everyday scene in Burns at the turn of the century; shows Voegtly Hardware store
106 Old time cowboy back in the former century [missing]
107 Bunch of early cowboys near Silver Lake [missing]
108 Notices for publication [missing]
109 "Buy Oregon Salt" advertisement [missing]
110 Notice for publication [missing]
111 C. L. Robinson, dairy farmer, and daughter Jane in Tillamook, Oregon
112 Cow with two calves
113 Range cattle on desert with Steens Mountain behind (OHS photo)
114 Cattle drive, 1927
115 Cattle branding, ca. 1890s
116 Cowboys eating while on the drive
117 Bringing in supplies by horseback near Steens Mountain
118 Camp in Steens Mountain
119 Group of cowboys in Paisley in front of Pioneer Saloon, ca. 1900
120 Wagon in front of "Lakeview House," ca. 1890
121 Starting to hay on ranch in desert, done with horses
122 Coyote Jack, an old time noted "varmint" trapper in Harney County
123 Old bridge at north end of Silver Lake with Table Mountain in background
124-127 Sheep:
124 Hauling wool out of Burns, ca. 1900
125 Old time sheep shearing scene
126 Sheep killed as a result of the Lake County Range War
127 Shearing sheep in Umatilla County, ca. 1900
128-132 Rabbits:
128-131 Rabbit drives, Burns
132 "Bounty Petitions Approved" newspaper article. Jack rabbits were one of the many
desert hazards. Harney County put a bounty of 5 cents a head, but the county court,
alarmed, soon removed it, for it would soon have bankrupted the county
133-138 Teaming:
133 Teaming in desert of Nevada in 1910
134 Hauling water in the desert
135 Freighting wheat
136 Jerk line freight team of Mr. Down of Lakeview. Eight horses, three wagons, driver
rode the left or "near" wheel horse (Lake Co. Museum photo)
137 Combine in Wasco County. Deschutes River on right and Columbia in background,
ca. 1920 (Photo by Markham, The Dalles)
138 George Strachan's combined wheat harvester and thrasher, Sherman Co., ca. 1910
(see also P89:394; photo by W. A. Raymond, Moro)
139-144 Miscellaneous camps, teams
145 Silver Lake Reds baseball team, ca. 1900 (photo by Matthews, Lakeview)
146 Ad for Lakeview Abstract & Title Co.
147-161 Sheep, shelters, on the range, in the desert
162-215 Photos of desert grasses and range conditions. Includes Bert Hawkins, Reub
Long, and E.R. Jackman:
162 Recovery of nomad plants after 7 years of pasturing "out-of-sight," June 1952
163 Crested wheat grass
164 Edge of desert, road in left foreground
165 Typical desert spot, not much grass
166 Desert in northern Lake County
167 Observational grass nursery at an elevation of 4500 feet. Elevation has a marked
effect on the value of different species for erosion control. Umatilla County,
May 27, 1938 (photo from Soil Conservation Service)
168 Blue grass original 10 acre field hand planted in 1953. Seed yield 840 pound per acre
in 1954
169 Potato? field being irrigated, ca. 1930
170 Hughes Livestock Company Ranch, Marrow County. Alfalfa grass improved range
on left. Unimproved range on right, June 13, 1957
171 Inspecting grass
172 Orchard grass seed crop grown on the Clackamas County farm at Mt. Pleasant
173 1928 growth of agropyron cristatum; seed sown May 4, 1927
174 Broken fence (print & nitrate negative)
175 Desert picture taken from car window, 1961
176 Bert Hawkins is proud of this excellent bunch grass stand. This is in about a 10 inch
rainfall range country (Vale, Malheur County)
177 Large fenced range seeded to crested wheat grass, Squaw Butte, 1954
178 Garfield County overgrazed and properly grazed range 5 miles southeast of Pomeroy
as they occur on either side of a fence. The properly grazed range show the vigorous
stand of bunch grass has been practically destroyed; March 1938 (SCS photo)
179 Central Oregon project, Gordon field west of camp. Crested wheat seeded 1937,
grazed this season to an average height of seven inches. Only cattle on field this
season. Redmond, Oregon, Sept. 10, 1942
180 Madras L. V. project, fair Juniper sagebrush, April 2, 1942 (photo by W. T. White)
181 The high desert area. This is typical of the vast "Great Basin" which has no outlet to
the sea, comprising central and southeastern Oregon, nearly all of Nevada and Utah,
part of California, Southern Idaho, and small portions of Wyoming and Arizona.
Crested wheat grass is the only crop which will succeed on millions of acres of this
high arid desert country
182 Native bunch grass roots (left), crested wheat roots (center), cheat grass roots (right).
This shows why an annuals, such as cheat grass, is less productive in poor years than
a perennial
183 Art Sawyer, left, Roscoe Bell, 1953
184 Silver Lake unit; October, 1959
185 Following range fires, as in this picture, the land should be seeded to grasses or grass-
alfalfa to prevent erosion and keep unwanted weeds and shrubs from taking the area
186 Area sprayed in spring 1958; high kill of sage, Oct. 1961
187 Long allotment; Juniper has come in since 1939; 1961
188 Reub Long allotment
189 On the Eleanor Long ranch, November 1961
190 Car driving along desert road (16x20 oversize box)
191 Overgrazing vs. under grazing along John Day Highway, 1955
192 First cutting of alfalfa irrigated by run-off
193 Well cared for range on left, eaten on right of fence
194 Winter pasture on the desert, November 1961
195 Typical desert vegetation: sage brush, rabbit brush, a few animals, not much grass
196 Cow in pasture (Nebraska?)
197 Reub Long allotment; desert pasture with rabbit brush growing out of cracks in rocks
198 H. A. Schoth (left), agronomist with the U.S. Department of Agriculture at Corvallis,
discusses seed production with Charlie Hoover (right) in a field of ladino clover,
1950
199 Seeding crested wheat grass helped this range; unseeded part on left, 1954
200 Fence with wheat growing on one side; range land on the other, ca. 1930
201 Reub Long
202 Reub Long ranch where range fire burned 10,000 acres
203 Clover? spreading via runners
204 Brushy range where grasses are weak. No livestock on this range for over 20 years.
First step to improve such a range is to get rid of sagebrush, May 6, 1954
205 Wheat field?
206 Fort Rock L. U. Project. Area covered with rabbit brush and sage. Typical of a large
area in this portion of the project. Redmond, Oregon, September 1942
207 Burned over grazing land west of Deschutes River, September 1939
213-215 Desert plateaus, ca. 1915
216-241 Indian artifacts (part of Reub Long's collection):
216-219 Pictographs and Indian writings
220-224 Arrowheads from Reub Long's collection
225 Stovepipes from Fort Rock area, collected by Reub Long
226-228 Stone utensils-knives, spearheads, etc.
229 Sandal nearly 10,000 years old; found in a cave on Reub Long's ranch
230 Cowboys at entrance to Reub Long's cave where sandals were found
231-232 Entrance to cave
233-234 Rocks which show how Indians used weights to hold down their tepees around the
edges while hunting in the winter
235-241 Paiute Indians in and around Burns, Oregon (photo by Bob Lemons Studio, Burns)
242-257 Deserted homestead and ghost towns:
242 Fred Wright in abandoned desert shack
243 Mounting block used to help ladies step into buggies or mount sidesaddles
244-246 Windmill at Fremont, on the Reub Long Ranch
247 Homemade device for hanging up a beef for home use
248-250 One of Reub Long's bulls at the ghost town of Fremont
251 Deserted homestead surrounded by windblown soil, fifteen miles south of Boardman
in Morrow County, May 1937 (Soil Conservation Service photo)
252 Tumble down homestead shack near Fort Rock, ca. 1962
253 Remnants of old barn in snow, near LaPine
254 Abandoned homestead, 1962 (photo by Merritt Parks)
255 Abandoned log homestead
256 Abandoned homestead in Morrow County
257 Fence
258-280 Game, birds, and fish:
258 Wild geese in a harvested rye field north of Lakeview
259 Horned owl near Fort Rock
260 Young eaglet
261 Golden eagle, newly hatched, on Cougar Mt. near Fort Rock
262 Wild geese, Harney County
263 Desert hawk
264 Young magpies
265 Desert grouse (photo by Joe Van Wormer)
266 Fish displayed, taken from Donner & Blitzen River near Steen's Mountain
267 Porcupine
268 Rodent
269 Coyote
270 Golden mantle
271 Bobcat in snow
272-280 Deer and antelope (several photos by Joe Van Wormer)
281 Marshall Churchill, front center, with men from saw mill, Western Cooperage Co.,
Olney, Oregon, ca. 1914
282 "Big Sam" with wife, Caroline, and son, Sam
283 "Big Sam," second from right, and a big log, Western Cooperage Co., Olney, Oregon
284-285 Saw mill, Burns, Oregon? (photos by Bob Lemons Studio, Burns)
286 "Beaver slide" in action. Cheapest way to stack hay
287-298 Juniper trees (several images)
299 Windmill
300-301 Hart Mountain, Lake County
302 Highway next to John Day River, ca. 1925
303 John Day River
304 Steens Mountain
305 Malheur Cave, Harney County
306 Corrals near Steens Mountain
307 Blitzen, Oregon (Catlow Valley), west side of Steens Mountain, ca. 1915
308-310 Fort Rock
311 Geyser at Lakeview, Oregon
312 Crump Geyser, Lake County, at the foot of Hart Mountain
313 Geyser at a hot springs near Lakeview
314 Barbed wire fence, Navajo County, Arizona, Sept. 1937
315 Cross fence dividing a large pasture, Morrow County, July 1938 (SCS photo)
316-317 Abert Rim, Lake County
318-320 Pasture Rock, 1962 (photos by Merritt Parks)
321-325 Lava flows and ice cave
326 Kiger Gorge, near Steens Mountain; only example of glaciation in SE Oregon (State
Highway Commission photo)
327 Rim of a "blowout" (crater), 1962 (photo by Merritt Parks)
328 Rim rocks in eastern Oregon
329 Willow Creek coming out of hills onto the desert, Abert Rim
330 Water behind the dam in Snake River
331 Smith Rocks State Park, by the Crooked River near Redmond (State Highway
Department photo)
332 Goose Lake, California (color postcard)
333 East Park Feed Canal diversion dam, part of the Orland Project, California
334 Scene in Blitzen, Oregon
335 Crater northeast of Christmas Valley (photo by Betty Morehouse)
336 Lakeview-Burns Highway
337 Face of a rock rim on the desert with Juniper trees above
338 Hole in the ground 300 feet deep and 1 mile across
339 Mt. Adams, Washington (photo by Benjamin A. Gifford, 1910)
340 Polluted recreation site
341 Person in a boat on the river (photo by Wes Taft, Jr.)
342 Cattle on range; rim rock in background
343-344 Desert scenes
345 Fort Rock
346 Carrying the mail to Blitzen, ca. 1900
347 Hauling supplies in Baker County, ca. 1875
348 Homesteading in Harney County, ca. 1912
349 W. S. Richards, known as "White Horse Daddy," Burns, Oregon, March 1927
350 John Day River
351 All that's left of Fremont: fences and a windmill, 1962 (photo by Bud Parks)
352 Old time posse in Harney County
353 Cattle drive
354 Rim Rock country of Lake County, ca. 1940
355 Cattle gate
356 Tepee rings on Indian hunting grounds. Indians would piles rocks around the edges
of the tepees to hold them down during fierce winter winds; near Lakeview
357 Devil's Garden
358 Dinner bell on Harney County Ranch
359 Sheep Rock along Oregon Route 19 north of Dayville; Fossil rock in contrast to cattle
grazing along the bank and in the John Day River (State Highway Dept. photo)
360 Silver Lake unit running over a normally dry road with big juniper trees in its path,
October 1957
361 Abert Rim, a 3000 foot high fault in the earth's crust
362 Approaching Steens Mountain, a fault over 9000 feet above sea level
363 Ft. Rock at R. A. Long Ranch
364 Picture of Gorge, John Day River in Grant County
365 County road in Harney County
366 Harney County, road to California
367 Part of Reub Long collection of Indian artifacts
368 Terraces on range land made with a caterpillar and terracer. Work was done in the
spring of 1937 on the J. J. Wells farm in Morrow County, Oregon (SCS photo)
369-378 Erosion:
369 Severe sheet erosion in walnut orchard in Washington County, Oregon, on Olympic
clay due to an unexpected cloudburst on June 13, 1936 (SCS photo)
370-372 Examples of erosion on hillsides
373 Severe washing in winter wheat on the Sheard farm in Umatilla County, Oregon. A
48 hour wash from a 40 acre drainage on a 5 percent slope cut this gully 8 feet deep
and 15 feet wide, March 1936 (SCS photo)
374 Erosion on George Harths slope, March 1940 (print & nitrate negative)
375 Erosion on Miller farm, Dufur, February 1940 (print & nitrate negative)
376 Ditches washed on hillside are the small ditches that were left by sod weeders making
a good place for runoff, February 1940 (print & nitrate negative)
377 Erosion on ground planted to wheat in fall of 1939, Feb. 1940 (print & nitrate neg.)
378 Gully in drainage way of summer-fallowed field caused by local cloudburst on August
31, 1937. It is estimated that approximately 3 inches of rain fell in less than an hour.
(Soil Conservation Service photo)
379 Cover crop in Oregon orchard
380 Typical Western Oregon landscape including orchards, rolling hills, and fir forests
381-383 Pear orchard
384 Hybrid onions packed in crates in field to avoid bruising and to haste drying, 1955
385 Cherry orchard in Wasco County (The Dalles), ca. 1920
386 Three children eating watermelon in a watermelon field in Irrigon, Oregon, ca. 1930
387 Hand seeder in operation
388 Haying in Jackson County
389-390 Stackers used in haying
391 Alfalfa seed harvesting in Union County
392 Disc tiller plow used for sagebrush plowing, Fremont National Forest
393 Sagebrush removal, Lake County
394-396 Harvesting wheat by old horse drawn method, ca. 1900 (see also P89:138)
397 Discing wheat by old horse drawn method
398-399 Aerial spraying of sheep (missing)
400 Wagons transporting sacked wheat
401 Transporting wheat (probably Weatherford) by wagon to Arlington
402 Transporting wheat by wagon (photo by Ben Leghorn)
403 Martin Hansen's wheat teams at warehouse at Moro, Sherman Co., 1914 (photo by
Will Raymond)
404 Wagons hauling wheat in the Columbia Basin
405 Wagons hauling wheat to warehouses
406 Hay stacker
407 Warehouse interior with sacks of wheat, 1946
408 Wheat harvesting with horses, Morrow County, 1924
409 Stacking hay, P. W. Hotchkiss ranch, Thomas Creek district, August 4, 1932
410 Stacking hay
411 Harvesting hay
412 "Off-set" disc is widely used in the west. Works well on deep soils without rock
413 30 inch disc plow used to chop up straw so that the rod weeders and drills won't keep
clogging up
414 Rebuilt three bottom, 16 inch plow, Pullman, Washington, Oct. 1935 (SCS photo)
415 Drill with packers, Squaw Butte, 1954
416 G.F. Kiest pasture, Richland, Baker County, 20 degrees of 30% slope
417 Cattle grazing, Herman Oliver ranch, John Day
418 Cattle grazing
419 Cattle grazing on irrigated alta fescue near Pendleton
420-424 Cattle
425 & 427 Cattle in small feed lot, Harney County
426 Small feed lot
428 Cattle on the move
429 Moving cattle from fall and spring range to summer range
430-433 Sheep grazing
434-435 Sheep grazing by the ocean, Curry County
436 Sheep grazing in non-irrigated sub clover pasture in Willamette Valley (Clackamas
County)
437 Unloading carload lots of wool at the plant of the Pacific Wool Growers in Portland,
Oregon (photo by Acme Commercial Studio)
438 Grading farm flock wool at the warehouse of the Pacific Wool Growers in Portland,
Oregon (photo by Acme Commercial Studio)
439 Shipping at Coos Bay (photo by Coquille Studio)
440 McCullough Memorial Bridge at North Bend
441 Girl with dog fishing from dock
442 "Hunters" Boiling Geyser at Lakeview, Oregon
443-444 Face Rock at Oregon coast, Bandon
445 Coos Head Lighthouse (State Highway Dept. photograph)
446 Coastal scene, Curry County?
447 Myrtle trees border highways in Coos County (State Highway Commission photo)
448 Jagged rocks are the backdrop for this beach scene at Shore Acres State Park near
North Bend (State Highway Commission photo)
449 Hedge bordered walks lead visitors into fragrant flower gardens at Shore Acres State
Park where a large variety of exotic plants may be observed (State Highway
Commission photo)
450 Looking north from Cape Sebastian State Park, ten miles south of Gold Beach (State
Highway Dept. photo)
451 View of Cape Arago State Park (State Highway Department photo)
452 Shipping lumber at Coos Bay (State Highway Department photo)
453-454 Trees in Coos County (photos by Coquille Studio)
455-456 Logging, modern methods
457 Logging with oxen
458-460 Big tree on exhibit at the Centennial:
458 Finding the tree (photo by Coquille Studio)
459 Falling the tree (photo by Coquille Studio)
460 Hauling the tree
461-462 Meadow foxtail, Corvallis and Gaston
463 Bill Hall, E. R. Jackman, and Bill Cyrus checking alfalfa
464 Five year old Nomad, Harold Wright ranch, Hardman, Oregon, May 14, 1954
465 Checking Nomad
466 Harvey Elliott, Walter Stoneway?, and LeRoy Wright checking Nomad on Elliott
Bros. ranch, Bridgeport, Baker Co., 1958
467 Joe Narkaus field seeded 1950, Umatilla County, June 1952
468 Jackman, Cyrus, and Hall checking alfalfa at Ben Dodson's place, Wamic, Oregon
469-470 Alfalfa grazing trial, Eugene Chase ranch, Dufur
471-472 E. R. Jackman and Kirk Day on Gavica Ranch in Paradise Valley, Nevada, June 1961
473-475 George Russell farm near Vale (photos by Harano Studio, Ontario):
473 Russell and Harry Saniquist (County Agent) examine alfalfa being cut for silage, 1953
474 Trench silo, 1953
475 Production of grass and legume silage operation, 1953
476 Alfalfa seed bed on George Elliot-Ed Bradtl farm
477 Home made land plane used on the Elliot-Bradtl farm to make firm seed beds
478 Bill Currier inspecting seeding, 1956
479 Grass nursery in Ukiah, Umatilla County, 1929
480-481 Crested wheat grass
482 Polycross bent grass for seed for Atlantic coast lawns and golf courses. Rows are in
sets of three, each of which is a different strain. This increases proper cross
pollination. These rows are all set out from material grown in greenhouses. One of
the very few such fields in United States (Medford). Bohnert, left; Tucker, right
483 Merion Bluegrass seedling planted spring 1955 with mechanical planter, Jackson Co.
484 Lincoln Brome in Bert Haynes farm, June 1951
485 Alta Fescue on Bert Haynes farm, June 1951
486 E. R. Jackman and potatoes in field, ca. 1930
487 Art King on right, in clover? field
488 Grazing land
489 Cover crop of oats and vetch in apple orchard just beginning to head, Santa Cruz Co.,
Cal. Vegetable cover is one of the best preventatives of erosion, March 1936
(SCS photo)
490 Hairy vetch in Western Oregon
491 Grass-legume nursery on George Barry ranch in Grant County Oregon, June 1954
492 Intermediate wheat
493 E. R. Jackman laying out a plot on A. Jaeger's farm, April 1945
494 Barley, 1959
495 Ronald Elmes, Darrell Evans, Kermit Peterson (P.C.A.), and E. R. Jackman at Evans'
farm in Mosier, 1952
496 Oak trees and old homestead in Camas Valley, Douglas County
497 Ken Gray, left, and Dr. D. C. Mote of Oregon Experiment Station checking results
of weevil dusting in a field of Austrian winter peas
498-500 Sagebrush control
501 Rims (faults) in Lake County; cattle grazing (negative)
502 Man with large fish (Bennett photo)
503 Man with dogs hunting bear, near Burns, Oregon
504 Coos County elk
505 Reub Long and Bob Moorehouse (3 prints and negative)
506 Reub Long looking at field
507-508 Reub Long portraits (508 by Joe Van Wormer)
509 Fence line showing excellent range on one side and poor range on the other in Gilliam
County, Oregon, July 1956 (photo by Lou Gilliam)
510-512 Good and poor uses of range
513 4-H Club livestock and owner
514 Men and horses taking a break in a pasture
515 Vic and Alice Johnson
516 Pasture on M. W. Mosely ranch near Halfway in Baker County, May 1925 (print &
nitrate negative)
517 Pasture on B. F. Keist farm in Richland, May 1925 (nitrate negative)
518 Oregon Farm Bureau Distinguished Service Award to E. R. Jackman, 1957
519 Deer damage to juniper tree
520-521 Frank Ballard retirement banquet
522 Harvesting lotus major in Willamette Valley
523 E. R. Jackman at desk
524 Jackman standing
525 Homemakers festival in Multnomah County, 1958
526 Ray Novatny and E. R. Jackman at White Horse Ranch, Harney County, 1954
527 Cattlemen's convention and E. R. Jackman, Portland, 1952
528 Juniper tree
529-531 Nine bottom plowing outfit
532 Lytle, Jackman, Jidge, Richards, and Ray Hafsted
533 Alkali bee tanks in Umatilla County, Oregon, 1957
534 Erosion on range land
535 Sluice gate, ca. 1931
536 Smith Rocks as seen from Smith Rock State Park
537 Fencing used between main ranges on Squaw Butte
538 Potato cellar that houses "Deschutes Gems," potatoes remarkably clean and well
shaped
539-540 Potato harvesting
541 Ukiah Old Grass Nursery at elevation of 4500 feet, Umatilla County. Elevation has
a marked effect on the value of different species for erosion control, May 1938
542 Skiing (photo by Gambs Studio, Baker, Oregon)
543 Sagebrush removal via flaming
544 Left to right: Charley Parrish, Leighton Morgan and Kid Winters in 1896. Rode rough
string for Abe Hacklemen on Camp Creek. Parrish worked for Bill Brown
545 Paiute? Indians riding in a horse and buggy
546 Paiutes in the desert washing clothes (photo by R. W. Heck)
547 Reub Long, co-author of The Oregon Desert, standing by a float in Labor Day Parade
in Lakeview, Sept. 1964 (color print)
548 Paiute Indians in Oregon desert
549 In the desert, wood is scarce. This sheep herder's shelter was made of twigs, others
were made of rock or adobe
550 Old time cowboy of Harney Valley, ca. 1900. Bridle, tapaderos, and saddle are
heavily ornamented with silver. John Devine used such equipment, as did many of
his Mexican vaqueros
551 Bunch of early day cowboys near Silver Lake, ca. 1900
552 Shorty Hawkins in foreground with his horses
553 Homemade windlass for hanging meat on a Harney County ranch. These places
customarily killed a mature beef animal a week for their own use
554 Branding irons
555 Reub Long
556 Cowboys on roundup, Wyoming?, ca. early 1900s
557 Hauling supplies in Baker County, ca. 1875
558 Antelope
559 Killed mule deer and two hunters near Burns, Oregon, ca. 1910
560 Antelope
561 Add from Paisley Oregon newspaper, "Buy Oregon Salt"
562-563 Final notice of homestead entry in Paisley, Oregon newspaper, 1915 & 1916
564 John Scharff, 1960s
565a Reub Long and E. R. Jackman, right, seeding Nomad crested wheat grass, Fort Rock,
April 1954
565b Reub Long and E. R. Jackman in front of a church; 1962 (see P89:63 or P98:82 for
color slide; photo by Robert W. Henderson)
566 [removed from collection]
567-651 Pictures from The Oregon Desert (several are halftones of images elsewhere in the
collection):
567 Silver Lake baseball team. Left to right (back): Joe Long, Mike Hough, Rufus
Cochrane, Gus Shroeder, unknown, John McCoubeach. Center: unknown, George
Drum. Seated in front: Burt Goudy, - McCurley, Billy Southerland, ca. 1900
568 Indian pictographs on large rock in Lake County (see P89:217)
569 Desert scene leaving Burns
570 Volcanic craters east of Fort Rock
571 Reub Long and his sister Anna Long at ages 3 and 4 at homestead cabin in 1902
572 Reub Long and his sister Anna Long at homestead cabin in 1963
573 The Lou Long homestead cabin at Christmas Lake built about 1880
574 Cowboys; Reub Long on left, ca. 1910
575 The old Lou Long Homestead: Anna Long (Mrs. Leston Linebaugh), Reub A. Long,
Mrs. Mary Long (mother)
576 Uncle George Duncan and Everett Long (Reub Long's elder brother) with Bugle the
dog
577 Rabbit drive, February 5, 1911
578 Abandoned homestead
579 Matrimony Vine growing on the side of old homestead. Homesteaders' wives used
dishwater and scrub water to keep them alive
580 Abandoned homestead
581 Published Notice required by law for proof of homestead ownerships
582 Fred Wright, longtime resident of Fort Rock area
583 Range horses with A. L. Brand
584 Horse runner crew in the days of wild horses. From left to right: Lyle Wood, Reub
Long, Jim Schroder, and John Lutz, ca. 1925
585 Taking wild horses to market
586 Roping a colt
587 Starting to hay on the ZX Ranch near Paisley
588 Men and women help with the "buckaroo" jobs
589 Cattle drive on Reub Long's ranch
590-591 Cattle drive
592 Homemade windlass for hanging up meat
593 George Menkenmaier, world champion rider bronko-busting, at eight years old
594 George Menkenmaier at a rodeo, 1957
595 Sheep on Steens Mountain, 1961
596 Range war between sheepmen and cattlemen results in death of sheep
597 Old time hand shearing of sheep
598 Sheep grazing on the desert
599-600 Indian artifacts owned by R. A. Long (see P89:227 and P89:228)
601 Cave on the R. A. Long ranch. It is now a national monument
602 Indian sandal and portions of others unearthed in the cave on R.A. Long's ranch
603 Indian pictograph in stone (see P89:216)
604 Sage grouse
605 Porcupine
606 Bobcat
607 A 4-point and a doe
608 Reub Long standing by seeding equipment, April 1954
609 Reub and Eleanor Long, ca. 1960
610 Reub's pack string fording a stream
611 Jack Davidson throwing the R. A. Long hitch (photo by Jones Studio, Lakeview)
612 Doug Linebaugh arriving to work for the ZX Ranch
613 Freighting supplies for a railroad survey crew, 1907
614 Les Duncan hauling wool off the desert, ca. 1916
615 Old time chuck wagon for ZX Ranch. Ed Lundy, cook
616 Brian Donlevy and Susan Hayward working on a movie near Diamond Lake
617 Dana Andrews working on a movie in Oregon
618 Dad Worthington, buckaroo boss of the ZX Ranch in Paisley, Oregon
619 Andy Devine and his two sons working on a movie in Oregon
620 Susan Hayward working on a movie in Oregon
621 Shipment of buggies to Bernard and Sons, Lakeview, Oregon, 1897
622 Eleanor Long working as an extra in a movie
623 Dave Richardson, wrangler for the movie company, ready to work with Eleanor and
Reub Long in "Canyon Passage"
624 Creed Conn freight team, ca. 1900
625 Bushgrass on Eleanor Long's range at Fort Rock
626-627 Juniper trees of different shapes
628 Rabbit brush takes over
629 The 1939 Arlington and Hermiston Oregon range fire. It destroyed many thousands
of acres
630 One rancher cared for his land, another did not
631 Grass on Reub Long's ranch
632 The town of Denio on the Oregon-Nevada border. The town saloon is on the Nevada
side, ca. 1910
633 Mounting block in Freemont
634 Blacksmith shop on Harney ranch
635 Livery stable at Redmond, Oregon, ca. 1910
636 Redmond, Oregon street scene, selling town lots, ca. 1910
637 Town of silver Lake, Oregon, 1910
638 Windmill supplies water for livestock in Fremont, Oregon
639 "Buy Oregon Salt" advertisement from Paisley newspaper
640 Pasture Rock -- extinct volcano
641 Fort Rock -- extinct volcano
642 Hole in the ground, 300 feet deep and 1 mile across (see P89:338)
643 Ice stalagmite in South Ice Cave northwest of Fort Rock
644 Oregon's largest juniper tree, 20 miles from Fort Rock
645 E. R. Jackman inspecting the interior of Derrick Cave
646 Lava flow at Newberry Crater in Paulina Mountains
647 Indian artifacts owned by Reub Long (see P89:226)
648 Wild geese in large flock
649 Fledgling Golden eagle on Cougar Mountain
650 Falcon named Lady Mary that belonged to Jim Anderson
651 Rough legged hawk
652 Immigrant Road, Goose Lake to Lakeview, Oregon, 1926
653 E. R. Jackman leaning against a fence
654 Jackman leaning on a fence post
655 Reub Long
656-658 Sheep in eastern Oregon (color transparencies)
659 Jackman and dog Dinti on a porch, 1924
660 E. R. Jackman, Charlotte Jackman, and dog Dinti on the beach, 1924
661 Jackman and dog Dinti with a campfire, 1924
662 Jackman raking in a crab, 1924
663 Jackman, 1961
664 Ft. Sill Oklahoma, World War I Field Artillery Unit (identification on back of print)
665 Mr. and Mrs. "Buttz" Reardon, E. R. and Charlotte Jackman, and Mrs. Frieda
Teutsch
666-667 E. R. Jackman and a group of youth
668-669 Cattle, 1952 (5x7 color prints)
670 E.R. Jackman and sagebrush, 1952 (5x7 color print)
671 A scenic alpine, 1952 (5x7 color print)
672 Military review moving east in front of Kidder towards Apperson
673 Girl looking at a lake (negative)
674 Picture gorge, Highway 395 (negative)
675-680 Desert scenes (negatives)
Photographs Transferred from E. R. Jackman Papers (MSS)
(box 1)
Clackamas County:
A typical red clover seed crop grown near Canby
Working crop residue into soil with disk tiller, ca. 1950
Grass field (hat on ground for reference), ca. 1950
First harvested crop of chewings fescue seed on the L. H. Hagen farm, Redland, 1936
Small combine harverster, ideal for harvesting chewings fescue and other grasses, ca. 1936
Coos County:
Dairy cattle on the well known farm of Ernest Clausen (2 images)
Beef cattle grazing on natural open plains on E. S. Dement range in the Eckley community
Overhead irrigation system in operation on Ellis Shull farm
Curry County:
Salvaging burned timber
Coastal scene
Deschutes County:
Trimming of low tree branches increases grazing area
Good water hole
Ground too rocky to cultivate; makes good pasture
Gilliam County:
J-S Ranch pasture gate and signs
Young woman standing in wheat field, ca. 1950 (2 images)
Soil erosion (13 images)
Young wheat field
Cultivating
Plows (4 images)
Stunted wheat field
Wheat fields (2 images; negs. only)
Overused range land near King Hill, May 1938
Wheat field?, Sept. 1944
Roadside seeding of crested wheat grass, ca. 1952
Field of Sherman big bluegrass, Summer 1952 (SCS photo)
Young wheat grass waterway, March and July 1956 (2 views; photos by Lou Gilliam)
Fence line with good range on one side and poor range on the other, July 1956
Wheat field treated around edge with different herbicides, summer 1922
Art Jaeger's Killefer disc plow, April 1945 (3 views)
Field with water-filled holes, ca. 1940
E. R. Jackman discussing control of morning glory with crested wheat grass, M. E.
Weatherford farm, ca. 1945
Grant County:
Forested mountains lands (3 images)
Juniper tree
Dairy cow in corral
Dryland alfalfa near Ritter
Seeding with new rangeland drill, Logan Valley
Sagebrush removal (2 images)
Burned area with grass replacing sage, Bear Valley
Oliver Bros. Range, Bear Valley; native grasses and weeds on right, crested wheat grass on
left, ca. 1930
William Southworth ranch, Seneca; Nomad alfalfa and young wheat grass seeded spring 1954
Juniper trees on north side of John Day River, 1961
Nomad alfalfa on the Holmes ranch near Monument, Oregon; E. R. Jackman, Al Haselbacher
and Bill Farrell in field, June 1957
Stems and leaves of Nomad alfalfa
Homer Barry's rehabilitated meadow -- drained and reseeded with meadow foxtail, Mt.
Vernon, Oregon; Jackman, Barry and Farrell, June 1954
Split rail fence
Juniper tree and mountain mahogany
Two juniper trees
Moving cows and calves onto summer range, Joe Oliver ranch in Bear Valley, near Seneca
Harney County:
Men playing cards, ca. 1890 (photo postcard of earlier photo)
Jack rabbit hunt, Burns, ca. 1912
Man and woman drinking coffee outside, ca. 1910
Man and woman in doorway of cabin, ca. 1910
Birds at Malheur Lake?
Studio portrait of Paiute? man and woman in traditional dress, ca. 1920
Paiute? man holding pipe
Stocking fish (2 images)
Apple tree, ca. 1925
Paiute Indians on horses in traditional dress, Burns, ca. 1920 (photo by Heck)
Paiute? woman carrying child in cradle board
Paiute? Family on sidewalk, Burns?, ca. 1910
Burns, ca. 1890
Dale Padget, Arden Bowne and two others stop in Wagontire, Oregon's smallest town
Home made squeeze and chute for vaccinating and branding livestock
Four men sitting and drinking in front of automobile, ca. 1910
Hay fields and stacks (6 images)
Wild geese, 1927 (Heck photo)
Lumber mill at Hines (near Burns)
Jackman and Novtony at entrance to barn at Whitehorse Ranch
Burns, Oregon, ca. 1930
Jenkins Bros. Ranch near Diamond, ca. 1950 (2 views)
Coyote Jack, a trapper, and family, ca. 1912
Bear killed near Burns, Oregon, ca. 1910
Cattle, ca. 1910 (3 images)
Display of shocks of grain raised on E. W. Van Valkenburg ranch, Silver Creek Valley
Irrigation pond
Sheep grazing
Parade float - W. L. Lowe and wife, hunters, traders and trappers
Cattle and ranch
Burns, Oregon, 1945 (photo by Bob Lemons)
Man standing in sunflowers, ca. 1920
Paiute? Indians sitting on church? steps
Capt. Louie and Old Tabby, Paiute Indians? (photo by Lemons Studio)
Wild geese (4 images)
Man and woman displaying fish
Crane, Oregon
Man fishing in a stream
Locher's Louch, Burns, August 1925 (Heck photo)
Bull in corral
A. L. Cody, who killed sheriff W. A. Goodman, July 27, 1924 (photo by Heck Studio)
Three men and coyote they killed, Burns, 1913
Paiute Indian camp, Burns (photo by Lemon Studio)
Red Sheppard on Crow Foot, Burns, 1926
Rodeo cowboy getting bucked off a bronc, Burns, 1933
Picnic scene, ca. 1930
Three men with deer they killed, ca. 1910
Three men with fish they caught, ca. 1915 (2 images)
Cattle on range
Man on horse holding a rifle; cabins and wagon in background
Two men at entrance to cave
Camp scene; hay mounds in distance, ca. 1900
Auto decorated for parade with plant cuttings, ca. 1915
Irrigated garden area
Swan
Man with sheep
Man in wheat field
Cattle
Man in field
Snow covered valley
Quaking aspen, Steens Mountain, 1956
Francis and Henrietta Venator, Harney Co. ranchers, ca. 1955
Barn at White horse ranch, 1899
Saloon in Burns, ca. 1920
Jackson County:
Airplane dusting sheep
Remnants of the Jacksonville Brewery
Pears in the spring time; Mt. McLaughlin in the distance, ca. 1940
Newton apple tree (photo by Clark Studio, Roseburg)
Brown Mercantile Co. Warehouse, erected in 1877 at Brownsboro, ca. 1950
Picking pears (2 images)
Bud Hoover checking lotus seed field, 1950
Bluebirds watching grain being milled, ca. 1950
Haying, ca. 1950
Alfalfa? after cutting (Grimm and Talent varieties), Southern Oregon Exp. Station, 1950
Otto Bohnert & County Extension Agent W. B. Tucker, in Bohnert's Pennlawn fescue field,
ca. 1950 [Pennlawn was developed by Pennsylvania State College] (2 images; photos by
Brainerd's Studio, Medford)
Otto Bohnert residence, Central Point, Oregon, ca. 1950
Unidentified alfalfa? fields (2 images)
Woman riding horse (Mrs. H. P. Poston?)
Ladino? clover
Jefferson County:
Clover field near Madras
John Day River running through the Andy Norton Ranch
Irrigating fields (2 images; negatives and prints)
Temporary housing built by new settlers who came when irrigation was developed
Fire guard plowed with Hester fire plow on L.U. Project, Madras, July 24, 1941 (SCS photo)
Josephine County:
Constructing a new addition to the Ladino Cooperative Assn.'s warehouse, 1940
Klamath County:
Agriculturalists inspecting fields (possibly in Nevada), ca. 1950 (3 images)
Klamath potatoes in storage cellar
Klamath potato weighing over four pounds
Lake County:
Alan Withers of Paisley and his 4-H award ribbons
John Withers selecting scion wood for grafting on roots to produce superior wild plums
Weighing up an extension fertilizer test plot
Bud Newcombe surveying
Farmers in irrigated grass seed field, ca. 1956
Dusting a field of Lodak? alfalfa to kill lygus bugs
Extension Service demonstration on making a ditch by blasting, Summer Lake area
Joyce Graves, Summer Lake 4-H Sheep Club member, exhibits two of her Rambouillet flock
Men in grass field
Range with dead sagebrush and live bitter bush
Cattle on a 5-variety trial, Hotchkiss & Maxwell Ranch, 1956 (2 images; prints & negs.)
Downtown Lakeview, ca. 1950 (2 images; photo postcards by Eastman's Studio)
Lincoln County:
Ten milk cans - one day's production from 20-cow herd, K E. Speakman farm, ca. Sept. 1940
Linn County:
Alta fescue field
Malheur County:
Strawberry clover seed field -- yield 650 lbs./acre, E. P. Gheen farm, August 1940
Seed cleaning plant purchased by Malheur Co. Farmers and Blue Mountain Seed Growers
Assn., 1940
Alfalfa field, ca. 1940 (prints & neg.)
Marion County:
Detroit Lake reservoir and dam?, ca. 1955 (2 images; State Highway Travel Division photos)
Silver Falls, ca. 1955 (State Highway Travel Division photo)
Beef cattle in south Salem hills (photo by Gifford)
Emma Courtney and Vera Badton of Seattle, students at Northwest Bible Institute, picking
hops, 1944
Pacific Highway running through orchards in the spring, ca. 1950 (State Hiway Comm. photo)
Henry Riches looking at his highland bent grass seed crop, ca. 1950
Floyd Fox's irrigation pond, dock and cabin, near Silverton, ca. 1955 (color print)
A field of turkeys (2 images; 5x7 color transparencies)
Vernon Jetts looking at his oats, Aumsville, Oregon, ca. 1950
View of the Willamette Valley from a hillside, ca. 1950 (State Highway Travel Div. photo)
Morrow County:
Dry-land ranch of the 1920s; better than many
Wheat piled in front of grain warehouse, ca. 1945
Pioneer Memorial Hospital, Heppner
Soil erosion (3 images)
Erosion caused by overgrazing
Terraces on range land made with a caterpillar and terracer; check dams constructed by
Civilian Conservation Corps hand labor; May 1937 (SCS photo)
Sheep grazing in 5-variety field, Paul Webb ranch, 1957 (2 images)
W. C. Hughes' 5-variety grazing trial; unimproved range (right) & grass/alfalfa (left),
June 1957 (print & neg.)
Nomad Alfalfa, Harold Wright Ranch, June 1957 (print & neg.)
A. C. Lindsay's 5-variety trial, Ladak alfalfa/crested wheat grass,
June 1957 (3 images)
Polk County:
P. tall fescue planting, first seed crop produced for Carl Deltrmond (right) of Suver; Lawrence
Jenkins, OSC Extension Service on the left
Tillamook County:
Loading grass silage, ca. 1935
Clarence Robinson family, pastures, dairy cows, pea patch, ca. 1950 (10 images)
Umatilla County:
Wheat harvesting with horse drawn combines, ca. 1916 (3 images; photos by Chas. Moore)
Group of men standing in wheat field, ca. 1920
Paul Kotze and family, 1954 (7 images - 4 family views and 3 views of field inspection)
Field gully near Pendleton Field Station shaped and seeded with grasses, Jan. 1938
W. A. Holt inspecting erosion
Erosion gully in field
Rotary blade cultivator in grass field (3 images)
Alta fescue field, ca. 1940 (2 images)
Field of Poa Ampla (Big Blue Grass), Roy Duff farm, March 1940 (SCS photo)
Lowell Caplinger farm, wheat and grasses, June 1951 (4 images)
Jeep in meadow, 1953
Henry Lazinka, first secretary and 5th president of the Umatilla Co. Cattlemen's Assn.
(2 images; prints & negs.)
Henry Lazinka and ranch hands at dinner table, ca. 1955
E. F. Burlingham farm, near Stanfield, June 1952 (4 images)
Ed Hoeft, Pilot Rock, in his grass-alfalfa field, August 1954 (2 images)
Jim Beamer and farmers in a strawberry clover pasture, ca. 1950 (6 images; photos by Bus
Howdyshell, Pendleton)
Wheat field, 1952
J. Earl Cobe looking at crested wheat grass, Haley Rothrush ranch near Pendleton, ca. 1936
Field with rough, cloddy surface produced by summer dry plowing after harvest of canning
pea crop, August 1937
Erosion in drill wheel tracks and furrows, Jan. 1936 (SCS photo)
Rotary blade cultivator, ca. 1951 (4 color slides)
On year old grass fields, various varieties, April 1951 (3 color slides)
Union County:
Ed McCanse and Burns Bailey looking at new grass on McCanse's 9000 acre range
Ed McCanse plowing in straw on summer fallow field
Man in wheat fields (2 images; negs. only)
Wasco County:
Peach trees, ca. 1920
Washington County:
Hagg Bros. dairy cattle, Reedville, Oregon
Yamhill County:
Rye and vetch cover crop at time of plowing under; near Newberg, April 29, 1938
(box 2)
Cover Crops-seeds:
A carload of Austrian winter peas leaving a western Oregon warehouse for the South
(4 images)
Typical hairy vetch seed field, western Oregon, ca. 1950
Vetch fields (2 images)
Hairy vetch field, Polk Co., ca. 1950
Cover crop in orchard
Austrian winter pea fields, mountains in background, ca. 1950 (3 images)
Summer fallow, Douglas County, Washington (2 images)
Vetch seed sacked and left standing to dry out, Willamette Valley, ca. 1950 (2 images)
Threshing vetch and oats -- bulk bin on combine -- Ritchey Bros., Forest Grove, ca. 1955
Harvesting hairy vetch, Marion Co., 1942
Checking pea seed, Oregon State College seed lab, ca. 1955
Threshing clover seed, central Oregon, ca. 1930
Clover fields , ca. 1940 (2 images; 2 prints & 1 neg.)
White clover for seed, dryland, Marion Co., May 1943 (color slide)
Fields in South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, and Texas seeded with
Dixie Wonder peas, February & March, 1946 (16 images)
Bentonville, Ark. orchards planted with cover crops, May 1944 (3 images; USDA photos)
Dairy Cattle:
Good dairy cows on Fred Genteman's irrigated pasture of alta fescue and ladino clover,
Corvallis, 1951
Jersey heifer nursing two week old lambs, Withers ranch, Summer Lake, Oregon, March 1943
Baker Co. dairy cow nursing calf
Unidentified views, probably western or coastal Oregon, ca. 1950 (3 images)
Erosion:
Soil blowing on abandoned farm, Morrow Co., May 1937
Erosion in a young orchard, Wasco? County (print and negative)
Erosion in an established orchard
Erosion in wheat fields (13 images)
Sheet erosion on Palouse silt loam, near Albion, Whitman Co., WA, Feb. 1934 (SCS photo)
Severe drill row erosion with silt deposit on lowlands, Whitman Co., Washington, Feb. 1940
(SCS photo)
Sheet erosion in Patit Valley, Columbia Co., Washington, Feb. 1934 (SCS photo)
Sheet erosion on Palouse silt loam, near Moscow, Idaho, Jan. 1934 (2 images; SCS photos)
Land destroyed by gullies, Lafayette Co., Mississippi, July 1938 (SCS photo)
Eroded fields (2 images)
Effects of erosion, Myers place near Salt Creek, Lake Co., fall 1931 (2 images)
Gully in summer fallowed field, caused by local cloudburst, Gilliam Co., Sept. 1937
(SCS photo)
County road washed out by flood waters of Gerking Flat Creek, Umatilla Co., March 1936
(SCS photo)
Farm Scenes:
View of dairy farms on Smith river, a dairy section of Douglas County, ca. 1925
Potato injured by mercury-chloride compared to normal potato, ca. 1919
Planting potatoes with Keystone planter, O'Brien farm, Mt. Laki, May 1927
Coulson Bros. potato farm, Tule Lake, CA, 1936
Hood River potato and flea beetle control, ca. 1935 (5 images; prints and negs.)
Harvesting certified potatoes, S. P. Dehlingen, October 1935
Feed potatoes, Malheur Co., 1948
Roy Roberts in his field of certified netted gem potatoes, Powell Butte, Crook Co., 1925
(print & nitrate neg.)
Hill of Netted Gem potatoes, Clyde Griffith farm, Mt. Laki, August 1927
Potato field, western Oregon?, ca. 1935
Harvesting potatoes by hand, ca. 1940
Jackman and others in potato field, ca. 1950
Jackman holding harvested potatoes, Columbia Co., 1928
Using Jackson fork to stack hay -- used on many Oregon farms, ca. 1917
(photo by Gifford & Prentiss)
Picking apples, ca. 1940
Sliding box under combine sack saves one to three sacks of wheat per day, Umatilla Co.,
ca. 1940
Roberta Jean Lazinka roping calf, ca. 1950 (2 images)
George Dereave and white winter oats, Amity, Oregon, 1961
Combining wheat and other grains (4 images)
Farm dinner bells, ca. 1950 (2 images)
Farm hands eating dinner, ca. 1950
Farm hands playing cards, ca. 1950
Top of Pete French's big round barn, southern Harney Co.
Umpqua plums, ca. 1940 (photo by Clark Studio, Roseburg)
Shoeing a horse
Bottle feeding a lamb, ca. 1950
Sage brush crowded by orchards, Snake River Valley, ca. 1940
Ed McCanse in the stubble of his dryland wheat field, ca. 1945
Wheat fields
Field of Turkey Red wheat near Maupin; strips received different treatments
Field of Turkey Red wheat; sections treated with copper carbonate and formaldehyde,
Lake Co., 1924
Hill unit plantings - result of one hill with mosaic, Fred Enterhille farm, 1924
D. L. Hughes in potato? field, Baker Co., July 1925
Man standing next to tall grain in field, ca. 1940 (neg. only)
Grasshopper? work - stopped with poisoned bran and sawdust, Klamath Co., 1924
Wood water cistern, ca. 1925
Test grain plots at OAC?, ca. 1930
Field with rough, cloddy surface produced by dry summer plowing after canning pea harvest,
Umatilla Co., August 1937 (SCS photo)
Cow with Lump Jaw, Nov. 1936
Field with deeply plowed section
Checking potatoes left in ground during winter, ca. 1925
Field after flood, western Oregon, ca. 1930
Hay stacking, western Oregon (Myrtle Creek?), ca. 1940
Longhorn cattle, Grant Co., ca. 1910
Aerial spraying
Wheat plots planted after alfalfa tilled under
Hand pollinating tree bloom, ca. 1925
Checking wheat sacks, Umatilla Co., ca. 1950 (photo by Bus Howdyshell, Pendleton)
Boy with harvest sack in potato? field, ca. 1925 (print & nitrate neg.)
Field of OAC #7 barley grown on the George Skako farm at Clackamas, ca. 1930
J. A. Gaskill's field of Hard Federation wheat, Alicel, Oregon, ca. 1930
Unidentified wheat field
Harvesting wheat by hand, ca. 1910
Sacks stacked in field in front of farmhouse, ca. 1915
Cattle in feed lot
Cattle in pen
Pumping water from North Palouse River for irrigated river bottom land, ca. 1950
Unidentified farm family, Grant Co.?, ca. 1950
Roguing Federation wheat, Malheur Co., ca. 1930
Plowed field, ca. 1940
Apple trees in bloom, Yakima project, Washington, ca. 1935
Pumpkins, Strawberry Valley project, Utah, ca. 1935 (Bureau of Reclamation photo)
Irrigating sugar beets, Belle Fourche project, South Dakota, ca. 1935
Cotton field and bales of cotton at gin, Rio Grande project, New Mexico, ca. 1935 (2 images)
Oxen team, Birmingham, Alabama, May 1935 (3 images)
African-American girls and cotton, Newberry Co., SC, Sept. 1940 (AAA photo by Harmon)
Bringing in bags of cotton from fields by mule, Shelby, MS, Sept. 1941 (AAA photo)
Beans?, Maine, ca. 1940 (AAA photo)
Mechanized fruit tree pruning platform, California, ca. 1930
Wheat field harvested and partially disced, Montana (SCS photo
Snow covered barn and field, eastern Oregon?, ca. 1920
Unidentified field trial, ca. 1935
Ox cart, ca. 1910
Forage:
Alfalfa:
Two year old stand of Nomad, Pat McGinnis farm, Bend, May 1958
Nomad plant under severe grazing and heavy winter trampling, Les Porterfield ranch
Klamath Falls, ca. 1955
Five varieties of grazing alfalfa, Les Porterfield ranch, 1955
Gopher damaged Nomad plant resprouting, Ed McCanse farm, North Powder, 1954
Nomad at Squaw Butte Experiment station outperforms grasses, ca. 1955
Nomad alfalfa, Sherman Branch Exp. Station, Moro, ca. 1955 (2 images; 1 color)
Making stand counts on 5 variety alfalfa grazing trial, Eugene Chase farm, Dufur,
1955
Individual alfalfa plants with soil dug away to expose stems spreading from main roots,
ca. 1955 (2 images)
Ladak alfalfa on dry land in Grant County, 1932 (print & negative)
Jackman and alfalfa plant; alfalfa plant roots, July 1957 (3 images; 3 prints & 2 negs.)
Comparison of dried 4 year old Nomad alfalfa plants, ca. 1955
Southworth nursery, Nomad and Ladek grown side by side, ca. 1955
Nomad alfalfa, Harold Wright ranch, Hardman, OR, May 1954 (3 images)
Nomad alfalfa, E. N. Sewell ranch, Burns, June 1952
Nomad alfalfa and grass seeded on Anderson ranch, Gilliam Co., May 1957
Nomad alfalfa seed field, Cow Valley, Malheur Co., August 1956
Checking alfalfa variety plots, Ben Dodson ranch, Wamic (Wasco Co.); E. R.
Jackman, Bill Cyrus & Bill Hall, ca. 1955
E. R. Jackman in Nomad alfalfa field, McCleary Cattle Co., June 1961
Nomad alfalfa on the Don McRae farm, Clarno (Wheeler Co.), Sept. 1952
Ladak alfalfa for seed, Baker Co. Dryland, ca. 1935
Nomad alfalfa growing on a caved off bank, Umatilla Co., ca. 1950
Man in partially harvested alfalfa field, ca. 1930
Alfalfa harvest
Grimm alfalfa, Washington Co., April 1924
Group standing near alfalfa field, Curry Co.?, ca. 1925
Nomad alfalfa trials in other western states -- Texas, Oklahoma, Kansas, Colorado,
New Mexico, Wyoming, South Dakota, Montana & Nevada, 1952-1961 (26 images;
prints and some color slides)
Crested wheat grass:
Test plot seeded to crested wheat grass, Madras Project, March 1940 (2 images;
SCS photos)
Crested wheat grass at Coffeepot Flat, Fremont National Forest, October 1947
(3 images)
Wheat grass, Bolton ranch, Lakeview, 1953
Crested wheat grass, Otley ranch, Diamond, Oregon, 1956 & 1957 (6 images)
Five acre crested wheat grass field, Withers' Bros. Ranch, Summer Lake, Aug. 1936
(print & neg.)
Crested wheat grass, Wm. Pfrang ranch, Lakeview, ca. 1932
Six year old crested wheat grass, Wm. Pfrang ranch near Lakeview, August 1940
Hayden Fish inspecting crested wheat grass in Lake Co., Ore., Aug. 1932 (2 images)
Crested wheat grass in rows, J. R. Fleming ranch, Bakeoven, Wasco Co., ca. 1935
Crested wheat grass on cheat land, burned and drilled only, near Madras, 1936
Crested wheat grass on cheat land, double disced and drilled, near Madras, 1936
(2 images)
Noble blade preparing cheat grass land for crested wheat grass, ca. 1936 (print & neg.)
Crested wheat grass working into sage brush, ca. 1936, (2 prints & negs.)
Crested wheat grass seed field, Howard Wagner? Ranch, 1935
Good stand of crested wheat grass on the Central Oregon Project, Redmond, seeded
about 1937, Sept. 1942 (print & neg.)
Central Oregon Project, Madras, Sept. 1942 (prints & neg.)
Crested wheat grass vs. Juniper, Jefferson Co., ca. 1942 (neg. only)
John Bradetich, Bend, inspecting crested wheat grass saved for winter feed, ca. 1950
(3 images; 2 prints & 2 negs.)
Crested wheat grass on the J. E. Smith Livestock Co. range, Umatilla Co., ca. 1932
(2 prints & neg.)
Central Oregon L.U. Project, Jefferson Co., protected crested wheat grass tract,
March 1940 (SCS photo)
Crested wheat grass, Baker Co., ca. 1935
W. R. Hawley and his crested wheat grass, Baker Co., 1936
Crested wheat grass seeded in the bottom of furrows on overgrazed native sod, Hynd
Bros. ranch, ca. 1940
A failed crested wheat grass field; seeded without removing a rabbit hutch, Fort Rock,
Sept. 1955
Crested wheat grass, Fox Valley, Linn Co.?, 1933 (print & neg.)
Crested wheat grass, 96 ranch, 1934 (print & neg.)
Young wheat grass, Topar strain, planted in 1952 at the Darrell Evans ranch near
Mosier; Ronald Elmes, Darrell Evans, Kermit Peterson, E. R. Jackman
Crested wheat grass Parker Bros. Farm, Creston, Montana, October 1935
Harold Wright, Morrow Co. Grassman of the Year (1955) with his Beardless
Wheat grass, August 1955
Walter Holt showing crested wheat grass to visitors at a grass nursery near Valley
Falls, Lake Co. Grass tour, ca. 1955
Field of crested wheat grass near Ukiah, ca. 1933 (USDA photo)
Crested wheat grass drilled after a burn (right) and no seeding (left), Jefferson Co.,
ca. 1940
Crested wheat seeded in rows, April 1938
Crested wheat on burned cheat grass (neg. only)
Furrow seeding of crested wheat grass, ca. 1930
Crested wheat grass, sagebrush in background, Lake Co., ca. 1940
Fairway crested wheat grass, Parker Bros. Farm, Creston, Montana, July 1935
Hawley crested wheat grass, 1936
Four year old stand of crested wheat grass on 1/4 acre; Hayden Fisk ranch, north end
of Goose Lake Valley (Klamath Co.?), May 1933
Crested wheat grass on P. Tensen farm, Nyssa, Oregon, May 1937
Other forage crops (includes grasses grown for seed) [2 folders]:
Alta fescue, Bob Mitchell? farm, Polk Co., ca. 1945
Alta fescue in rows for seed production, western Oregon (Corvallis?), ca. 1945
Inspecting alta fescue, ca. 1950
Single plant of alta fescue; over 4 ft. high
Ash Bailey's alta fescue field, Junction City, May 1947
Cattle grazing on alta fescue, Western Oregon, ca. 1940
Abandoned crop land burned and drill seeded in 1941, Central Oregon Project, 1942
Renovating meadow, Lake Co., ca. 1934
Loading wild hay using over-shot home made stacker, William Rehart Ranch, Crooked
Creek, August 1932 (5 images)
Hay stacker, ca. 1936 (2 images)
George Curtis' pine hay stacker, ca. 1936
Viewing hay slide on P. W. Hotchkiss Ranch, Thomas Creek, Umatilla Co.?, July 1932
Hay stacker, J. S. Entbridge? ranch, ca. 1936
Hay stacker, ca. 1940 (3 prints and 4 negs.)
Threshing with a gasoline tractor, ca. 1915
Stacking hay, ca. 1900
Threshing alsike clover, Joe Jacobs farm, Sept. 1935
Stacking lotus straw, 1950
Comparison of root and top end growth of Poa secunda and Poa bulbosa, Sherman
Co., May 1938 (SCS photo)
Clover fields, ca. 1928 (2 images)
Kentish wild white clover, Malheur Co., ca. 1940
Ladino? Clover fields, Josephine Co., ca. 1930 (2 images; prints & nitrate negs.)
Ladino clover field near Madras, ca. 1950
Steers on ladino clover, Grants Pass, ca. 1930
Alsike clover field near Liberal (Clackamas Co.), ca. 1940
Blaine & Warren Brown in Marion bluegrass field, Gaston, Washington Co.,
June 1958
Meadow foxtail, John Kapplin farm, Gaston, July 1944
Meadow foxtail field, K. McAdams, Gaston, May 1957 (2 images)
Harvesting bent grass on the Ed Geary Ranch, Klamath Falls, ca. 1935
Oregon Game Commission trial seedings on elk range near Troy, Wallowa Co., 1957
Non-shattering oat grass, Bob Mitchell farm, Polk Co., July 1944 (4 images)
Phil Meeker in tall oat grass, July 1944
Grass fields, Tillamook County, July 1947 (4 images; color prints & slides)
Grass in wooded area, Douglas Co., July 1947 (2 color print & 3 color slides)
Alta fescue, Umatilla County, July 1947 (color print & slide)
Views of grass fields, near campus?, July 1947 (4 color images)
Grass field, near campus?, ca. 1940
Range land showing overgrazing and good grazing practice, Olex, Gilliam Co., 1955
Fertilizer trials on bentgrass seed showing division of plots at harvest time, F. H.
Mudd farm, Clatsop Co., ca. 1940
Managed bunch grass, north of Hermiston, ca. 1950 (color slide)
Range land reseeded on left, natural on right; Squaw Butte Exp. Station, ca. 1950
Coast land logged, burned and seeded, ca. 1940
Burned over grazing land, L.U, Project near Madras, Sept. 1939
Mountainous grazing land after fire, ca. 1945 (neg. only0)
Seeded and unseeded burned-over timber lands, ca. 1940
Turf shown by tearing it up, Wallowa Mountains meadow, ca. 1940
Roland McKee, USDA forage crops specialist, in field of birdsfoot trefoil and ryegrass
on C. C. Hoover farm, Medford, ca. 1940
E. A. Smith field near Condon, about 3 weeks after spring toothing, April 1936
E. A. Smith combining near Condon, ca. 1936 (3 images)
Bunch grass range, Wheeler Co., grazed & ungrazed conditions, July 1955 (4 images;
prints & negs.)
Chilcote in Lake, Wasco and Morrow counties, ca. 1947 (3 color slides)
Alta fescue in Linn County, ca. 1947 (color slide)
Windrowing ladino clover, ca. 1947 (color slide)
Sage brush spray, Fremont, Lake Co., August 1954 (color slide)
Range land scenes, eastern Oregon -- grasses and windmill (5 color slides)
Gully seeding made in 1940 -- crested wheat grass, smooth Brome, and alfalfa, Adams
Co., Washington, June 1941 (SCS photo)
Seeding burned over timber lands, Jan. 1940 (4 images)
Harold Wright irrigated bottom land along Rhea Creek Headquarters ranch seeded
to alfalfa and grass mixture, August 1955
Blue bunch wheat grass and Idaho fescue ready for spring grazing (neg. only)
5,000 acres of grass near Burly, Idaho; formerly sage brush, ca. 1950
Grass straw baled in fields (5 color transparencies)
Oats planted with Ladak alfalfa on H. H. Huron farm, Imbler (Union Co.), ca. 1936
Dryland plot of alfileria and crested wheat grass sown on W. B. Snider ranch, Paisley,
1933
Grazing plot on range near Hardin, Montana, July 1940 (AAA photo)
Unidentified views (47 images; prints and some negatives)
(box 3)
Grasses (not grown for forage or seed):
Dam planted in alta fescue, 1947 (7 images; negs. & prints)
Plot of alta fescue in turf garden at Westwood Country Club, 1948
Hillside planted in grass, 11 months after seeding, August 1948
Grass test plots, Elmwood Golf Course, Omaha, Nebraska, 1951 (4 images)
Jackman Home on NW 36th Street, Corvallis, ca. 1956 (30 views)
Machinery:
Threshing seed with a bulk combine, Ritchey Bros. Farm, Washington Co., ca. 1940
(2 images)
Harrow made from tires, Lakeview (3 images)
Floyd Fox Sr. & Jr. adjusting combine
Land plane
Fire plow made by Hester Plow Co. Of Florida; used on L.U. project for plowing fire guards
and fighting grass fires, Madras, July 1941
Steam powered thresher, ca. 1910
Disc cultivator (neg. only)
Thresher?, ca. 1950
Caterpillar pulling multi-sectioned plow, ca. 1940
Three-bottom, 16-inch plow rebuilt to give 26 in. clearance below beam and equipped with
experimental moldboards, Whitman Co., Washington, Oct. 1935 (SCS photo)
Plows (4 images)
Grass cutter?, ca. 1940
Mrs. Dwight Weisner cultivating using 30? horse team, Morrow Co.?, ca. 1925
(nitrate neg. only)
Horse drawn reaper, ca. 1930
Tractor pulling thresher, ca. 1940
Horse drawn combine (print & neg.)
Pastures:
Cattle grazing in pasture on Ray farm, Hillsboro, June 1954 (2 images)
Cattle grazing in pasture, Umatilla County?
Cattle and sheep grazing in OSC pastures, ca. 1950 (10 images)
Sheep grazing on hillside pasture, Willamette Valley?
Sheep grazing in coastal pastures (4 images)
Sheep grazing in coast pasture, Lincoln Co., ca. 1940
Typical coast livestock layout - cleared, fertile valley for pasture and hay; adjacent hillsides
for winter & spring pasture; some timber to help out the income, ca. 1940
Irrigated pasture in Alsea area of Benton Co., Harold Maltby farm, 1951 (4 images)
Jackman and ?Levy in Cunningham Sheep Co. pasture, Nolan, Oregon May 1955
Sheep in OSC pasture?, ca. 1947 (5x7 color transparency)
Pasture with some ladino clover, New Hampshire?, ca. 1930
Cows grazing on crimson clover, Georgia, ca. 1940
Unidentified pasture scenes (10 images)
Range Scenes:
Hart Mountain 4-H range management camp, 1951 (17 color slides)
Youth range camp, 1957 (6 images)
Sage brush removal via burning by U.S. government, ca. 1955
Sage brush removal demonstration given to ranchers from several western states, Lake Co.,
ca. 1950:
Crowd scenes (7 images)
Abert Rim (2 images)
Burning sage (1 image)
Using railroad rails to clear sagebrush (3 images)
Other machinery used for clearing sagebrush (2 images)
Sage brush after spraying, 1957 (3 images)
Equipment for sage brush removal, Squaw Butte, ca. 1950 (4 images)
The rider who looks after salt, fences, water, crippled or sick cattle, thieves, poisonous weeds,
and such matters on forest service mountain range north of Burns, ca. 1910
Little Blitzen Gorge, Steens Mountain, October 1958 (photo by David B. Marshall)
John Maidmont sheep range near Lonerock, Gilliam County, ca. 1940
High skirted juniper north of John Day River; evidence of too many deer; ca. 1950
Seed drill to be awarded to a rancher by the Lakeview Rotary Club for range reseeding
accomplishments, 1949
Ranchers looking over reseeding project in Lake County, ca. 1950 (neg. only)
Native Blue Bunch grass near Big Juniper Mountain sheep range, Lake Co., May 1937
Bud Parks measuring grass stand on over-grazed range near Fort Rock, sept. 1955 (3 images)
Cabin of John Scharff, near summit of Steens Mountain
Cheat grass areas burned in range fire, ca. 1950 (2 images; prints and negs.)
Quarter Circle "U" Ranch roundup, Big Horn County, MT, June 1939 (FSA photo
by Arthur Rothstein)
Mountain mahogany tree grazed by deer (U.S. Forest Service photo; prints & neg.)
Rangeland near mountains
Closeup of sage brush plant on range land
Typical Oregon ranch -- hay meadow below and range above; Baker Co., ca. 1940
Harney Co. Range lands, 1962 (3 images)
Inside Range 5 enclosure, Squaw Butte, May 1954
Reub Long's winter pasture, BLM rangeland
Rangeland with mountains in background, ca. 1939 (FSA photo by Arthur Rothstein)
Ranch hands and horses on rangeland (neg. only)
Bitter bush, Deschutes National Forest, 1956
Unidentified images (4 images)
Seed Crops:
Highland bent grass for seed, Polk Co., July 1941 (color slide)
Alta fescue for seed, June 1941 (3 color slides)
Alta fescue & Lincoln Brome, Bert Haynes farm (2 images)
Seeding Lincoln Brome on Bert Haynes farm, April 1950
Grass grown in rows, Ben Elmer farm, Clarkes, ca. 1950
Certified seed wheat display, Union Pacific Railroad
Four feet high alta fescue plant
William Peutz of Nyssa in his field of certified Grimm alfalfa for seed, July 1944 (print & neg.)
Onions for seed, Malheur Co., July 1944 (print & neg.)
Harvested flax in bundles in field, ca. 1930
William Dietz at New Era (Clackamas Co.) shows a typical field of fiber flax, ca. 1935
Crested wheat grass grown for seed, ca. 1930
Oregon Seed League display, ca. 1950
Grass field, OSC?, July 1947 (color print)
Field of alta fescue for seed near Junction City, Oregon, 1951
Special Events:
Oregon Seed Growers League meeting, Portland?, ca. 1950 (6 images; photos by Rey Parodi)
"The Seed World," Stan Cellars, Hugh Willoughby, Rex Warren, 1958
Ranchers tour, ca. 1950 (4 images)
Frank Ballard retirement dinner, Benson Hotel, Portland, 1961? (4 images; include Jackman,
Frank and Lillian Ballard, Mark Hatfield, & others)
Jackman holding award presented to him by Oregon Farm Bureau Federation, 1957
The Oregon Desert promotional display in window of Shaw Stationery Co., Klamath Falls,
June 1964
Jackman and Long at book signing table in store, ca. 1964
Scene from pageant, "Yesteryears in Morrow County," Ione, April 1959
J. D. Vertrees Photographs:
Aerial views of fields, farms, creeks (10 images)
Cattle (6 images)
Aerial spraying (2 images)
Buildings with smokestack (prison or manufacturing plant), eastern or southern Oregon?
Man standing in wheat field
Freshly plowed field, Klamath Co.?
Rodent (6 images)
Unidentified insects (22 images)
Unidentified fields (5 images)
Cattle on range pasture (3 images)
Miscellaneous Photographs:
Binational Center, San Jose, Costa Rica, 1962 (4 images)
Two Dominican 7th grade English teachers practice in the Language Lab set up for the
English Language Teaching Seminar given in Licey, Dominican Republic, July 29 to
August 18, 1962
Unidentified building, Dominican Republic, ca. 1962
Ninth Annual National English Teachers' Seminar, Asuncion, Paraguay, Dec. 1962 (2 images)
English Teaching Seminar, Sao Paulo, Brazil, February 1962 (3 images)
USIS-Rio de Janeiro officer Graham French presents certificate to a teacher attending a
seminar for teachers of English in Curitiba, Brazil, January 1962
New yellow pine trough, Umatilla Co., Jan. 1936 (SCS photo)
Two paratroopers, ca. 1945 (War Dept. photo)
4-H boys at camp? eastern Oregon?, ca. 1950 (2 images)
Cattle ranchers at dinner meeting, ca. 1950
Statue of Lincoln at Lincoln Memorial, ca. 1940
Farmer, possibly "Grass Man of the Year," ca. 1950
Jimmy Duff?, ca. 1918
Hunting camp scenes, 1948 (7 images)
Sign "No Swimming Without Suits" posted along river in Malheur Co., ca. 1925
Digging large trenches, ca. 1930 (2 similar images consisting of a print only and
a nitrate negative only)
Highway between railroad and river, Blue Mountains?, ca. 1925
View of trees and hills, N.D. (nitrate negative)
Farm machinery, N.D. (nitrate negative)
Man driving horse-drawn plow, ca., 1920 (nitrate negative)
Group of men standing in field, N.D.
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