Landscape Architecture Department records, 1932-1982.

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Landscape Architecture Department records, 1932-1982.

The Landscape Architecture Department Records document curriculum and instruction in landscape architecture at Oregon State University, department administration, extension activities, campus planning, and faculty research and publications. Departmental administrative records include correspondence, annual and biennial reports, staff memos and meeting minutes, budgets, and an external department review conducted in 1980. Curriculum and course proposals, field trip records, and lecture notes and drawings document the courses and degree programs offered by the department. Materials pertaining to highway improvement, garden clubs, the Oregon Roadside Council, State Planning Board, and landscape design study courses are included in the collection. The landscape architecture faculty were active in campus planning; the department records include materials pertaining to Physical Plant administration, campus plans developed by A.D. Taylor, campus roads, and landscaping for new campus buildings constructed in the 1930s. The collection includes correspondence, speeches, notes, and publications written and assembled by Arthur L. Peck and Donald Martel. The records include photographs assembled by faculty for instruction and publications. They include images of gardens, landscape features at homes and public buildings, trees and shrubs, campus views, and students. In addition to Corvallis and Oregon, the photographs depict gardens and landscape features in Seattle and Tacoma, Washington, and southern California. The bulk of the photographs are b/w prints; the collection also includes a few color prints, color transparencies, and b/w negatives.

2 microfilm reels.

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SNAC Resource ID: 7476563

Oregon State University Libraries

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Peck, Arthur L.

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Oregon State College. Dept. of Landscape Architecture.

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Oregon State University. Dept. of Horticulture.

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Oregon State College. Physical Plant.

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Oregon State University. Dept. of Landscape Architecture.

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The Landscape Architecture Department began with a four-year professional degree program in 1911, the first offered west of the Mississippi River. This initial degree program, Landscape Gardening, was a part of the Horticulture Department. From 1932 until 1947, the department was jointly administered by Oregon State College and the University of Oregon and provided instruction in landscape architecture for the Landscape Construction and Maintenance program in the Horticulture Department. The Dep...

Taylor, Albert D. (Albert Davis), 1883-1951

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Landscape architect in Cleveland, Ohio; faculty member at the University of Michigan. From the description of Albert Davis Taylor papers, 1918-1942. (University of Michigan). WorldCat record id: 80406368 Horticulturist. Taylor died in 1951. From the description of Street trees: their care and preservation, 1908. (Cornell University Library). WorldCat record id: 63935176 ...

Martel, Donald

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Oregon State University. Dept. of Architecture and Landscape Architecture.

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