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Agriculture

 Subject
Subject Source: Archiveswest

Found in 52 Collections and/or Records:

Edward G. Robinson papers

 Collection
Identifier: Mss2337
Abstract

Collection consists of manuscript correspondence to Edward G. Robinson and his wife, Frances Robinson, 1918-1929, from friends and business associates in Oregon and Tennessee, mostly regarding the flax industry in Oregon and the United States. Also included are miscellaneous documents regarding the flax industry. Robinson owned an electric company in Aurora, Oregon. He traveled to Europe to study flax culture and linen manufacture.

Dates: 1918-1929

Rogue River Commercial Orchard Company records

 Collection
Identifier: Mss2415
Abstract

Rogue River Commercial Orchard Company records include correspondence, contracts, stockholder receipts, and promotional literature, 1910-1919. H. B. Tronson and Guy W. Conner were presidents of the company.

Dates: 1910-1919

Oral history interview with Dick Troon

 Collection
Identifier: SR 2884
Abstract

Oral history interview with Dick Troon conducted by Jamie Minkus and Kirsten Wall on April 20, 2002, as part of the Oregon Wine Archives Oral History Project. Troon discusses the history of Troon Vineyard in the Applegate Valley, Oregon, and talks about the wine industry in Oregon.

Dates: 2002 April 20

Tuttle Ranch records

 Collection
Identifier: Coll 242
Abstract

Papers concerning the activities of the Tuttle Hereford Ranch near Prairie City, Oregon, owned by Clarence Ewing Tuttle.

Dates: 1943-1962

Valley Migrant League photographs

 Collection
Identifier: Org. Lot 74
Abstract

Collection consists of photographs taken primarily by staff of the Valley Migrant League for their program newspaper, "Opportunity News." Subjects depicted include VML-sponsored adult education and child care programs, working and living conditions for agricultural migrant laborers, labor organizing activities, and community events.

Dates: 1965-1968

Oral history interview with Marjorie M. Vuylsteke

 Collection
Identifier: SR 2889
Abstract

Oral history interview with Marjorie M. Vuylsteke conducted by Jamie Minkus and Kirsten Wall on May 3, 2002, as part of the Oregon Wine Archives Oral History Project. Vuylsteke discusses the founding and operations of Oak Knoll Winery in Hillsboro, Oregon.

Dates: 2002 May 3

Charles Wagner Willamette Valley flax industry photographs

 Collection
Identifier: Org. Lot 452
Abstract

Photographic prints produced by Charles Wagner, manager of the Oregon Insurance Rating Bureau (later the Pacific Fire Insurance Rating Bureau) to document the value of crops, facilities, and equipment associated with the flax industry in the Willamette Valley of Oregon. The images include facilities in Canby, Corvallis, Dayton, Harrisburg, Irving, Monroe, Mount Angel, Santiam, Silverton, Springfield, St. Paul, and Washington County.

Dates: 1941-1946

Oral history interview with Mamaro Wakasugi

 Collection
Identifier: SR 965
Abstract

Oral history interview with Mamaro Wakasugi conducted by George I. Azumano on October 29, 1994, as part of the Japanese American Oral History Project. Wakasugi discusses his family background and early life as a second-generation Japanese American on farms on Bainbridge Island, Washington, and in Banks, Oregon, as well as his experiences farming in Ontario, Oregon, during World War II.

Dates: 1994 October 29

Walker Farms records

 Collection
Identifier: Coll 188
Abstract

Records of an eastern Oregon farm, near Athena in Umatilla County, engaged in large-scale growing of wheat, oats, and peas from the 1940s to the 1960s.

Dates: 1945-1977

Washington/Yamhill County Pomona Grange

 Collection
Identifier: Coll 238
Abstract

Historical information and photocopies of documents and photographs relating to grange organizations in Washington and Yamhill Counties, Oregon.

Dates: circa 1900-2011