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

Title: Professor George Coote tending to plants in an OAC greenhouse, circa 1890
LC Subject: College buildings Greenhouses Coote, George, 1842-1908 Universities and colleges--Faculty
Creator: Kerr, Betty
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.
Work Type: photographic prints photographs boudoir photographs albumen prints
Location: Corvallis >> Benton County >> Oregon >> United States
Date: 1890 circa
Identifier: P196:Greenhouse
Rights: No Copyright - United States
Local Collection Name: Betty Kerr Photographs, 1890-1893 (P 196)
Type: Image
Format: image/tiff
Set: Historical Images of Oregon State University OSU Special Collections & Archives Research Center
Primary Set: OSU Special Collections & Archives Research Center
Institution: Oregon State University