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Delmar Clive Tingey Photograph Collection, 1915-1960
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Scope and Content:

The Delmar Clive Tingey collection consists of photographs taken while Tingey was a Professor of Agronomy at Utah State University from 1924 to 1963. The images in the collection show research on weed control, the effects of over-grazing, experimental agricultural fields, charts, and specimen samples.

Biographical Note:

Delmar Tingey was born on May 19, 1897 in Brigham City, Utah. He graduated from Box Elder Tingey High School and received his bachelor's and master's degrees in Agronomy from Utah State University. He did post-graduate work at the University of Minnesota. Tingey was a pioneer in wheat hybridization, weed science, and biometry. In 1982 he was honored by the USU Alumni Association with a Distinguished Service Award. He died in 1989 in Ogden, Utah.

Researcher Note:

Some of the photographs in this collection were used in the Utah Agricultural Experiment Station publications. For more information about these images see the Circular series 18.1 and Circular pamphlet series 18.2 located in Utah State University Archives.

Nitrate negatives have been removed from this collection and placed into Cold Storage Box 1. Patrons must request to view these negatives 3 hours in advance. Print copies are located in the collection.

Register completed by Daniel Davis, May 2001.

Inventory:

Box 1.

Folder 1. Charts.
1:01:01 Biscuit root chart from about 1950.
1:01:02. Chemical treatments for weeds in corn.
1:01:03-06. Density charts for corn, barley, winter wheat, and sweet corn.
1:01:07-08. Dodder germination charts.
1:01:09. Maximum farm production charts.

Folder 2. Experimental Plots.
1:02:01-02. Wild oat experiments. See USU Archives 18.1, No. 450, page 3.
1:02:03. Ground cherry with wheat, 1951 to 1956. See USU Archives 18.1, No. 444, page 12, top.
1:02:04. Experimental wheat (?) field. (Nitrate Negative)
1:02:05. Greenville, Utah farm; wheat nursery (Nitrate Negative).
1:02:06-09. Poppy in wheat.
1:02:10-12. Russian knapweed controlled with chlorates.
1:02:13. image Dandelion in lawn at Utah State Agricultural College, fertilizer vs. none. See USU Archives 18.2, No. 127, page 28 (Nitrate Negatives).
1:02:14. Mule ear.
1:02:15. Biscuit root, "about 1950 cove" on original envelope.
1:02:16. Effect of chlorates on Canadian thistle.
1:02:17-19. Sow thistle experiments.
1:02:20-22. Control of creeping perennials and morning glory.
1:02:23. Sudan grass on morning glory land, 1940.
1:02:24. Corn on morning glory-infested land; Nibley, Utah, 1930.
1:02:25. Crops on morning glory-infested land, 1930.
1:02:26. Crops on morning glory-infested land, 1940.
1:02:27. Grass and corn on morning glory-infested land (Nitrate Negative).
1:02:28. Crops on whitetop land, 2nd crop, 1940.
1:02:29. Whitetop Davis (?) staked and ready for reading (?), 1939.
1:02:30-31. Experiments with Na2 and ClO3, 1930.
1:02:32-34. Miscellaneous experimental fields.
1:02:35. Experimental corn field. See USU Archives 18.2, No. 127, page 22, close to bottom view, but note the different angle.
1:02:36. Guayule experiment.
1:02:37. Plowed fields to control weeds.
1:02:38. Plowed field between fences.
1:02:39. image Forest officers counting plants in sample area.
1:02:40-41. Overgrazing and sample areas in fences.
1:02:42. Direct seeding of guayule, July 1944.
1:02:43. Later view of direct seeded guayule.
1:02:44-45. Guayule transplants, 1944.

Folder 3. Illustrations.
1:03:1-2. Erosion due to overgrazing.
1:03:3-6. Dodder plow, various views.
1:03:7-11. Various views of a plowed field.
1:03:12. Whitetop in Trenton, Utah, about 1939 (Nitrate Negative).
1:03:13. Whitetop, College Ward, Utah, stockyard about 1948-50. See USU Archives 18.2, No. 127, page 25 (Nitrate Negative).
1:03:14. Whitetop about 1940.
1:03:15. Whitetop about 1940, Spanish Fork, Utah. See USU Archives18.2, No. 127, page 9.
1:03:16. Poppies in wheat. See USU Archives 18.2, No. 127, page 17, lower view; 18.1, No. 429, page 5, top and bottom.
1:03:17. Wheat treated to rid it from poppy. See USU Archives 18.2, No. 127, page 17, upper view; 18.1, No. 429, page 8, top and bottom.
1:03:18. Goatsrue. Very close to USU Archives 18.2, No. 127, page 5.
1:03:19. Man, "Ferris," in field of dwarf wheat (?), about 1931 (Nitrate Negative).
1:03:20. Field of dandelions.
1:03:21. Corn hit by hail.
1:03:22. Field of sugar beets, Plain City, Utah, Sept. 1915.
1:03:23. Field of sugar beets, Cache Valley.
1:03:24. Man standing in his field.

Folder 4. Specimen.
1:04:01. View of poppies. See USU Archives 18.1, No. 429, cover.
1:04:02. Weed sprouts in manure (Nitrate Negative).
1:04:03. Smut infested barley. See USU Archives 18.1, No. 296, page 8, bottom.
1:04:04. image Smut in winter wheat.
1:04:05. False flax treated with Trieth.
1:04:06. False flax treated with ester.
1:04:07. Jim Hill mustard treated with Trieth.
1:04:08. Jim Hill mustard treated with ester.

Folder 5. Miscellaneous.
1:05:01. "A view of an open silo in which fresh beet pulp is stored."
1:05:02. image Lifting and topping beets. Salt Lake County, Oct. 20, 1916.
1:05:03. Farmer raking hay.
1:05:04. Cleared forest with trees in background (Nitrate Negative).
1:05:05. Mouth of Willow Canyon after flooding.
1:05:06. County weed supervisors during short course, Feb. 1940.

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