Collection

Linfield Research Institute Collection

• 1938 - 2024 (Creation)

100 linear feet

The collection contains papers, photographs, mimeograph sheets, transparencies, inventory cards, guestbooks, notebooks, films, pamphlets, programs, equipment, and other ephemera relating to the founding and operation of Linfield Research Institute. It also contains awards given to director Walter Dyke, as well as scientific equipment used at the Institute.

Materials are arranged into ten series; items are arranged in boxes.

Access is by appointment only. Please contact archives@linfield.edu to make an appointment.

Some records in this collection have been restricted as they include personally identifying information.

Copyright information for collection films is unknown. Transmission or reproduction of materials protected by U.S. Copyright Law (Title 17, U.S.C.) beyond that allowed by fair use requires the written permission of the copyright owners. Works not in the public domain cannot be commercially exploited without permission of the copyright owners. Responsibility for any use rests exclusively with the researcher.

• English

• Latin

The Linfield University Physics Department donated the Linfield Research Institute Collection to the Linfield University Archives in March 2021.

Materials were arranged haphazardly in the basement of Graf Hall prior to donation to the Archives, with notable gaps in their organized content.

Jereld R. Nicholson Library
Linfield University
900 SE Baker Street
McMinnville, OR 97128
Reference Number: 503-883-2734
Reference Email: archives@linfield.edu

The Jane Claire Dirks-Edmunds Collection

This collection contains papers, media, teaching materials, awards, photographs, equipment, and other items related to the Linfield Research Institute at Linfield College (now Linfield University). The collection should be considered partial as additional materials may be added in the future.

The Linfield Research Institute was established at Linfield College (now Linfield University) in 1955 to promote undergraduate and faculty research. Initial funding came primarily from United States military defense agencies, and research topics mainly focused on the physics of military science. Throughout the 1960s, the Institute expanded into biological and natural science research and earned significant coverage in local, regional, and national media. Successful companies emerging from LRI included Field Emission Corporation, FEI Company, and Applied Physics Technologies.

Operations at the Institute wound down in the 1970s, but were revived on a smaller scale from the late 1980s through late 1990s. While the Linfield Research Institute still exists today as a 501(c)(3) organization, it is largely inactive.

• Citation: Linfield Research Institute Collection. Jereld R. Nicholson Library. Linfield University, McMinnville, Oregon. Gift of Linfield University Physics Department, March 2021.
• Processing information: Processed by archives coordinator Alyssa Ralston and graduate intern Tori Neitzke, with the assistance of student technicians Elana Gatien and Yesenia Esquivel.

LCSH

DACS, ISAD(G)

Input into AtoM by Alyssa Ralston on January 27, 2025.

• Linfield Research Institute
• Physics
• Thermodynamics
• Research institutes
• Linfield College
• Linfield University

• McMinnville (Or.)

• Walter Dyke (Subject)
• Carter, Jimmy, 1924-2024 (Subject)
• Charbonnier, François (Subject)
• Bill Mackie (Subject)
• Hamby, Drannan Carson, 1933- (Subject)
• Swanson, Lynwood, 1934- (Subject)

• Advertisements
• Architecture
• Albums
• Blank forms
• Books
• Catalogs
• Clippings
• Correspondence
• Drawings
• Ephemera
• Fieldnotes
• Illustrations
• Leaflets
• Manuscripts
• Miscellaneous Documents
• Motion Pictures
• Pamphlets
• Photographs
• Physical Objects
• Portraits
• Posters
• Programs