Silent films of farming operations at the Alderman Farms. Depicted in these reels are the following activities: potato harvest, undated; cattle, travel, barbecue, 1943; water tower, garden, cattle train, 1943; barbecue, Mexican migrant workers show, Dean Johnson, 1944; corn, beans, barbecue, pump, bus travel, undated; corn, helicopters, politics, employee cafeteria, undated; aerial views, farm, sawmill, peaches, silo, undated; sawmill, pump, cake, logging, undated; Stearman plane, bean planting, corn, 1950.
The Alderman Farms were founded in 1847 in Yamhill County, and peaked in the late 1950s with at least 3,100 acres under cultivation in Yamhill, Benton, Linn, Marion and Klamath Counties. The Alderman Farm films were made by Urie Alderman, an Oregon Agricultural College alum and the grandson of Alderman Farms founder, Albert Alderman.
Digitized from film reels held in the Alderman Farm Films (FV 214), Special Collections and Archives Research Center, Oregon State University Libraries.
