OregonScape

Abstract

Oregonscape For decades schools have used visual images in their classes.Such visuals have included videos,films, slides,and in the early twentieth century,lantern slides.Lantern slides were large,generally 3 1/2 inches by 4 inches, and were originally printed on glass. Later slides were made of film sandwiched between glass sheets. Nearly all lantern slides were black-and-white photos, but they were often hand-colored, as in this example (see our weblink below for the color version). This view of a modern eastern Oregon hog farm, titled “Hogs, Corn, Alfalfa and Orchard Beyond, Umatilla County,” was taken in the early 1920s and is the fourth slide in a set used in Portland schools to teach children about Oregon industries . Premier Oregon photographer Arthur M. Prentiss photographed the set, entitled Stock Raising and Meat Packing in Oregon. The Davies Family Research Library collections include a 1915 pamphlet Pacific-Northwest Swine Husbandry, issued by the Portland Union Stock Yards Company, which discusses hog raising practices shown here.The“A”shaped portable houses are described as“one of the easiest the farmer can construct.” The pamphlet includes a materials list, and a construction diagram, and recommends the houses face south so the interior can be heated by sunlight. It also advises that “above everything, build your own fences right, and build them permanent.” Of course, there is much more to raising hogs than houses and fences. Look beyond the row of five little houses, and there is a stack of corn waiting to be turned into hog feed. Beyond that is a corner of an alfalfa field, also used for hog feed.A young orchard grows to the left of the hog pens — presumably the fruit will end up on the farmer’s table. — Mikki Tint, former special collections librarian, OHS Research Library Learn more about the lantern slide at www.ohs.org/research/quarterly/oregonscape.cfm. OHS Research Library #bb011560 ...