Food Science and Technology Dept. Photographic Collection (P 142)
ca. 1900-1963
0.7 cubic feet; apx. 725 items
Scope and Content Note
The collection contains photographs of the department's food processing and canning labs and equipment in the Horticultural Products building; of processed foods taste testing; of departmental faculty, staff and students; and of canners and frozen food packers' short courses. Most of these photographs date from the 1920s through the 1940s.
Also included in the collection are photographs from the 1910s through the 1940s of commercial food packing and processing facilities and equipment throughout Oregon and the Pacific Northwest coastal areas, such as those used for walnut and fresh fruit packing, prune drying, and fruit and vegetable canning; of examples of packaged food products; and of mobile relief canneries in the early 1930s sponsored by organizations such as the state's extension service.
Organization and Arrangement
The photographs are numbered P142:1-589. The glass negatives are numbers 1-39; the lantern slides are numbers 40-46.
Forms
The collection consists primarily of black and white prints (apx. 460), approximately 175 film negatives (many nitrate), 44 glass negatives, and 7 lantern slides.
Historical Note
In 1919, a horticultural products processing program, the first of its kind in the United States, was begun at Oregon Agricultural College by Ernest H. Wiegand. The modern maraschino cherry was developed by this program in the 1920s. In 1937 the program was established as the Food Products Industries and a seafoods lab in Astoria was established in 1940. The department was renamed several times; in 1962 it became the Department of Food Science and Technology. Research efforts have involved nearly every food product produced in Oregon including tree and cane fruits, nuts, vegetables, and meat, dairy and seafood products.
Department chairs have included Wiegand, 1937-1952; Earl M. Litwiller, 1952-1953; Harold W. Schultz, 1953-1973; Paul E. Kifer, 1973-1984; Richard A. Scanlan, 1984-1985 (acting); and Daniel Farkas, 1991-date.
Related Materials
Additional photographs relating to the Food Science and Technology Department and food processing generally are located in Harriet's Collection #s 62, 936, 950, 985 & 1859; the Gwil Evans Photographic Collection (P 82); the Robert W. Henderson Photographic Collection (P 98); the Extension and Experiment Station Communications Photographic Collection (P 120); and the Bill Reasons Photographic Collection (P 151). Films and videotapes pertaining to the department are located in the Extension and Experiment Station Communications Motion Picture Films and Videotapes (P 120).
Records of the Food Science and Technology Department are found in RG 176; departmental research records are located in the Agricultural Experiment Station Records (RG 25).
Container Note
These photographs are housed in two document boxes, glass slide box and in a lantern slide box.
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