Agriculture
Found in 51 Collections and/or Records:
Larry McGraw papers
Papers of Larry McGraw include correspondence, 1973-1974, regarding the Bybee-Howell Orchard on Sauvie Island, including fruit-growing and other nursery projects. Correspondents include Governor Tom McCall. Collection also includes a journal, 1973-1974, regarding McGraw's work on the orchard.
Oregon Nursery Company records
The Oregon Nursery Company was organized in Salem in 1867 and moved to a location 10 miles west of Portland in 1906. The company farmed 1200 acres at this location until its collapse in 1927. The town of Orenco, founded in 1908, derived its name from the company's. Collection includes correspondence; demonstration planting records, especially regarding the Perfection Apricot; financial records; and an Orenco Mercantile Co. ledger.
Oregon Wine Archives collection
This collection, created by the Oregon Historical Society, contains ephemera relating to the wine and spirits industry in Oregon. Included are clippings, brochures, newsletters, newspapers, magazines, wine labels, business cards, posters, programs, bulletins, and monographs, relating to wines, their production and marketing, relevant issues, and affiliated industries. Most of the materials date from 1972-2002.
Oregon Wool Growers Association records
Resolutions passed at annual meetings of the Oregon Wool Growers Association, 1923-1951, regarding open grazing in parks and reserves, predatory animal and rodent control, permits for wildlife, railroad rates, and meat prices.
Pacific International Livestock Exposition catalogs
Catalogs and programs for an annual livestock exhibition that took place in Portland, Oregon, beginning around 1910.
Papers of unidentified farmer
Papers of an unidentified farmer who lived in Portland, Oregon, and operated a farm near Boring, Oregon, from the 1920s until at least the 1940s. The papers consist of a journal with diary entries, cattle birth records, and financial records; two ledgers of financial records; loose financial records; and clippings about measurements, recommended cattle rations, and recommended amounts of seed to plant.
Patrons of Husbandry collection
Collection includes a broadside, "To Patrons of Husbandry," November 20, 1878, and letters and papers of L. M. Mitchell, 1913-1914, relating to the Murphy Grange No. 470, Murphy, Oregon, and to cooperative buying and other organizing by granges. Also included is a typescript thesis, "The Oregon Grange and Public Power, 1930-1940," by Timothy C. Clark.
Patrons of Husbandry Spring Valley Grange No. 62 minute book
Manuscript minute book for the Spring Valley Grange, No. 62, Zena, Polk County, Oregon, of the Patrons of Husbandry.
Alfred Powers photographic collection on turkey farming in Oregon
Twenty-five black and white photographs and photographic postcards of the turkey farming industry in Oregon. The images depict turkeys, turkey processing, farms and farmers.
Oral history interview with Werner Raz
Oral history interview with Werner Raz conducted by Christine Ermenc on April 20, 1976, as part of the Portland Neighborhood History Project. Raz lived in what are now the Multnomah and Hillsdale neighborhoods of Portland, Oregon.