There's Something Special About These 19 Oregon Farms From The Past
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Tessa Metcalf
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Oregon has a long history of farming and agriculture. Take a look at these amazing, bucolic photographs of Oregon farmland taken between 1936-1943. They’ll transport you to the past.
Photo caption: "Orchards in Hood River Valley. Mount Hood in background. Oregon"
Photo caption: "Wagon of corn at cornhusking contest, Ontario, Oregon"
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Photo caption: "Note on changing rurual life. On U.S. 99. Benton County, Oregon, Williamette Valley"
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Photo caption: "Oregon, Marion County, near West Stayton. Migrant pickers harvesting beans. Farm people came from South Dakota"
Photo caption: "Malheur County, Oregon. Japanese-American girls washing celery sprouts for transplanting"
Photo caption: "Fall gardens and orchards. Willamette Valley, Clackamas County, Oregon. This section produces truck for the Portland area and some out of state export"
Photo caption: "View of hop yard, pickers at work. Near Independence, Polk County, Oregon. "
Photo caption: "View of prosperous dairying section. Tillamook County, Oregon"
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Photo Caption: "Pear picker. Hood River, Oregon"
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Photo caption: "Ray Halstead making a turn while harrowing an irrigated field. He is a FSA (Farm Security Administration) rehabilitation borrower. Dead Ox Flat, Malheur County, Oregon"
Photo caption: "Son of Mr. Browning with his pet goat. Mr. Browning in a FSA (Farm Security Administration) rehabilitation borrower living at Dead Ox Flat, Malheur County, Oregon"
Photo caption: "View of Sunset Valley, showing hay and clover, pasture land, corn land, grain land. Some of this valley has been under cultivation four or five years. Malheur County, Oregon"
Photo caption: "Loading truck in sugar beet field. Average wage of field worker: two dollars and fifty cents per day and dinner and supper during topping. Near Ontario, Malheur County, Oregon"
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Photo caption: "Irrigation canal and the preacher's farm. These large haystacks are characteristic of the country at this period of development. Dead Ox Flat, Malheur County, Oregon"
Photo caption: "Looking down the newly plowed wheat fields of the Umatilla Valley, Oregon. Thirteen miles south of Pendleton, Umatilla County, Oregon"
Photo Caption: "Mr. Roberts harvesting red clover on his forty acre farm. Malheur County, Oregon."
Photo caption: "Bean pickers at harvest time. Pickers in foreground came from South Dakota. Oregon, Marion County, near West Stayton"
Photo caption: "Grazing land. Madras, Oregon"
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Photo caption: "Couple digging their sweet potatoes in the fall. Irrigon, Morrow County, Oregon"
We want to give a big thanks to Yale University and the Library of Congress for archiving these photographs and making them available to the public. Amazing, aren’t they? Do you have memories of growing up on a farm? Share your thoughts and stories in the comments.
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