Herbarium photographs, 1904-1963 (bulk 1904-1920).

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Herbarium photographs, 1904-1963 (bulk 1904-1920).

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This collection consists of photographs from Oregon State University's Herbarium. Approximately half of the photographs are identified and a third are dated. The images depict a variety of plants and trees in the wild and in greenhouses, well-known botanists, curators of the Herbarium including E.R. Lake and Helen Gilkey, botany students engaged in research in the classroom and in the field, early logging operations, and views of Marys Peak taken from several locations. Several of the images in the collection were taken by William E. Lawrence, Botany Department professor.

ca. 80 items.

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Lake, E. R. b. 1860.

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Gilkey, Helen M., 1886-1972

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Helen Margaret Gilkey was born on March 6, 1886, in Montesano, Washington. She moved with her family to Corvallis in 1903. She received her MA at Oregon Agricultural College in 1911 and her PhD at University of California at Berkeley in 1915. From 1915 until 1918, she worked as a scientific illustrator at Berkeley. Curator of the herbarium at OAC from 1918 until 1951, Gilkey was also a Professor of Botany. She had 44 publications to her credit, 10 on vascular plant taxonomy and 10 on Tuberales. ...

Oregon State University. Herbarium

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Since its establishment in the early 1880s, the Herbarium has served as the chief repository for Oregon State University's collection of flora as well as a laboratory for the study and identification of plants and fungi. Managed since 1883 by a curator under the auspices of the Department of Botany and Horticulture, the focus of the Herbarium has shifted away from the traditional role of student instruction and more toward the acquisition and cataloging of Pacific Northwest plant specimens. As a...

Oregon Agricultural College

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Lawrence, William E. (William Evans), 1883-1947.

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William Evans Lawrence was born April 15, 1883 in Randolph County, Indiana. He earned a B.S. from Earlham College (Indiana) in 1904 and did graduate work at the University of Chicago. Prior to coming to Oregon Agricultural College in 1910 as a botany instructor, he taught at Michigan State College in 1906 and Oklahoma A & M from 1907-1909. Lawrence was an associate professor of plant ecology at the time of his death. He was a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science ...

Oregon Agricultural College. Dept. of Botany and Plant Pathology.

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