Horticulturalist William A. “Tex” Frazier with bush beans
- Title
- Horticulturalist William A. “Tex” Frazier with bush beans
- LC Subject
- Frazier, W. A. (William Allen), 1908- Horticulture Green bean Zygophyllaceae Universities and colleges--Faculty
- Description
- Frazier joined Oregon State’s Horticulture Department in 1949, coming from the University of Hawaii. At Oregon State, he worked on breeding new varieties of vegetables with his student and fellow faculty member Jim Baggett. They are known for the developing a bush variety of the Blue Lake green bean, which enabled farmers to mechanically harvest this popular variety. Frazier also developed the Willamette tomato, one of the first varieties developed for the Willamette Valley and still popular with home gardeners.
- Work Type
- negatives (photographs)
- Date
- 1970 circa
- Identifier
- P057:WilliamAFrazier
- Rights
- In Copyright
- Local Collection Name
- News and Communication Services Photograph Collection, 1962-1999 (P 057)
- Type
- Image
- Format
- image/tiff
- Set
- Historical Images of Oregon State University OSU Special Collections & Archives Research Center
- Primary Set
- Historical Images of Oregon State University
- Institution
- Oregon State University