Finding Aid for Wilber J. Fraser Photographs and Correspondence, 1890-93, 1900-36, 1938, 1940 | University of Illinois Archives

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Box 1

Folder 1: Correspondence, 1900, 1911,1925-30,1935-36

Postcards and photographs from European trips.  Letters asking advice on cattle raising.  Letter from E. Voorhies at UC-Berkeley.  Itemization of cost to attend 1936 Wisconsin Dairyman's Association.

Folder 2: University Photographs, 1920-1915

Photographs of UIUC; Wu Ting Fan; student events; band on Quad; Dr. Burrill; C.G. Hopkins.

Folder 3: Class Reunion Photos, 1922, 1933

Memorabilia and photographs of reunion with Dr. Fraser in attendance.

Folder 4: Photographs- UI, 1890-1894

Photograph of wedding, football game, picnic, student life at UI.

Folder 5: Notes on Dairying from European Trip, 1908

Letters to German dairymen, notes on their operations, list of desired photographs.  Business cards, notes on prices per pound of milk.

Folder 6: European and American Travel, 1912-1930

Photographs of Scotland, negatives of mountain barns. Notes on alfalfa pictures.

Folder 7: England/Scotland/Ireland

Photographs of herds of cows, Ayrrshire cows, shorthorn cows.  Ayrshire cow judging standards 1906.  Scottish haying.  Irish dairy show pictures.

Folder 8: "Discarded" Scotland photos

Photographs of Scottish farms and dairies.  Photographs of dairy delivery vehicles.

Folder 9: "Discarded" German photogrpaphs, 1928

Pictures of buildings, farm vehicles and conveyances, herds of cattle, landscape.

Folder 10: Holland

Photographs of buildings, canals, cows, markets.  Photographs of exterior and interior of farm structures.

Folder 11: Europe

Photographs of Denmark--buildings, conveyances, landscapes.  Europe--herds of cattle, structures.  Scandinavia--boat, milkmaids.

Folder 12: United States

Photographs of  cows in herds; farms.  Negatives of cows in herds.

Folder 13: Farm and Dairy Vehicles--United States and Europe

Photographs of dog cart, milk wagons, plows, ox-drawn carts.

Folder 14: Negatives--farm workers

Negatives of barn, horse in field, worker.

Box 2

Folder 1: Cows, Folder 1

Cows with milking histories; sired by "Sarcastic"; misc. cows at UIUC.

Folder 2: Cows, Folder 2

Misc. dairy cows; newspaper clippings of cows; bull pen.

Folder 3: Cows, Folder 3

Photographs of "Colony Flood Protection 8th and his daughters" lineage.

Folder 4: Cows, Folder 4

Loading bull on truck; bull  in pen.  Negatives of bull pen.

Folder 5: 1940 Exhibit "Roughages", 1940

Photographs and negatives of cattle from exhibit.  Notes on reverse of some prints.

Folder 6: Misc Dairy Information

Judging guidelines for dairy cows, Guernsey cattle.  Photograph of ears of corn.  Photograph of parts of diseased cows.

Folder 7: Dairy Science Photographs- Round Barns, ca 1905-1920.

Photographs of interior and  exterior of round barns, the farmhouse, the fields, the residents.

Folder 8: Negatives-"Pasture Exhibit Prints", 1938

Farm economics presentation.

Folder 9: Negatives--untitled

Guidelines for presentations on farm economics

Folder 10: damaged negative

farm vehicle

Folder 11: negative- damaged

"Illini Nellie" dairy cow

Folder 12: Lock

Small padlock found in collection