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Professor George Coote tending to plants in an OAC greenhouse, circa 1890

Creator
Date
  • 1890 circa
Description
  • The 1891-92 catalog, in which this photograph is published, described the greenhouse as "large and well supplied with many varieties of choice plants." Students were required to work five hours per week without pay; additional labor was paid at the rate of fifteen cents per hour. George Coote was born in Kent County, England in 1842 and (according to Lucy Skjelstad) worked as the gardener for Charles Darwin before emigrating to America. He arrived in Corvallis in 1877 via the Isthmus of Panama and farmed in an area west of Corvallis near Yaquina Bay until his appointment to the College faculty in 1888. He laid out the college grounds, erected and supervised the greenhouses, and taught in the Horticulture Department until 1908 when failing health forced him to take a leave of absence. He died several months later in November 1908. One of his daughters was married to Emile Pernot, the college photographer.
Subject
Work Type
Location
Identifier
  • P196:Greenhouse
Local Collection Name
Institution
Submission Date
  • 09/20/2017
Modified
  • 05/31/2023
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APA

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MLA

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Chicago

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Data Sources
Footer Number Term External URI
1 Kerr, Betty http://opaquenamespace.org/ns/creator/KerrBetty
2 Coote, George, 1842-1908 http://opaquenamespace.org/ns/people/CooteGeorge
3 Universities and colleges--Faculty http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85141120
4 Greenhouses http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85057244
5 College buildings http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85141097
6 photographs http://vocab.getty.edu/aat/300046300
7 boudoir photographs http://vocab.getty.edu/aat/300265164
8 albumen prints http://vocab.getty.edu/aat/300127121
9 photographic prints http://vocab.getty.edu/aat/300127104
10 Corvallis >> Benton County >> Oregon >> United States https://sws.geonames.org/5720727/
11 Betty Kerr Photographs, 1890-1893 (P 196) http://opaquenamespace.org/ns/localCollectionName/p_196
12 Oregon State University http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n80017721

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