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8. Barracks Photograph

8. Barracks Photograph of John Jacob & Wilma Rohner — printed p. 66 — recorded September 30, 1990 at Jake Rohner's home, Benton County, Oregon (afternoon). Every printed page has its own permanent link.

Zybach, Bob 1993. John Jacob and Wilma Rohner. Family Farming on Coffin Butte Between World Wars, Benton County, Oregon: 1919-1941. Soap Creek Valley History Project, Monograph #05. Oregon State University Research Forests and College of Forestry, Corvallis, Oregon: 132 pp.

p. 47 = printed page 47 of the original book; the link on each page number is a permanent address you can send to anyone.

Provenance

From: #5 John Jacob & Wilma Rohner
Narrator: John Jacob "Jake" Rohner and Wilma "Willie" Rohner
Recorded: September 30, 1990 · Jake Rohner's home, Benton County, Oregon (afternoon)
Interviewer: Bob Zybach
Printed pages: p. 66
Original: http://www.nwmapsco.com/ZybachB/Oral_Histories/Soap_Creek_Valley/05_Rohner/Zybach_1993.pdf
Accessioned: From Bob Zybach’s upload, 23 August 2026

Part III. Printed session note: "The following transcnpt [transcript] was made from an interview with fake [Jake] and Willie at fake's [Jake's] home, during the afternoon of September 30, 1990. After reviewing the initial transcripts, fake [Jake] and Willie provided written corrections and additions. These com,nents [comments] appear throughout the manuscript enclosed in [brackets] and include the initials of the person that has provided the information." Both narrators present; speakers are marked in the printed text as [JAKE] and [WILMA]. A note "Pause in Recording" appears at p.64.

p. 66

Wilma "Willie" Rohner: [WILMA] Probably in there somewhere. Because it was shortly before we left there. Had to be.

Bob Zybach: Wl2at was the reason you decided to take all these pictures?

Wilma "Willie" Rohner: [WILMA] Because we wasn't supposed to! Somebody, I don't remember whether it was an army officer, or a civilian guy or something. I had the camera once and he says, "No taking pictures because this is government property" you know, and all this kind of stuff. So the more he said that the more I wanted some pictures, because it was wrong I guess.

Bob Zybach: Just cause you were told not to.

Wilma "Willie" Rohner: [WILMA] Yeah, I think that was it. Well, really what I took them for I wanted to remember how it looked. The things going up in there and I thought gosh, I'll forget all of that stuff. Because I remember looking down. . . if you got up on top, if I'd have been way up on top of Coffin Butte then we could have, that would really show them down there. But they're on our hill.

Bob Zybach: Okay, here's a...

8. Barracks Photograph

Wilma "Willie" Rohner: [WILMA] That is a '51 picture when we moved the building up, them was. . . is that what the people stayed in.

John Jacob "Jake" Rohner: [JAKE] The barracks.

Wilma "Willie" Rohner: [WILMA] The barracks, yeah.

John Jacob "Jake" Rohner: [JAKE] Yeah, cause they had showers in there.

Wilma "Willie" Rohner: [WILMA] And they sold them and we bought one and moved it up on some property. Well you bought, actually bought the property.

Bob Zybach: You said that was Schulinerick's?

John Jacob "Jake" Rohner: [JAKE] Yes. And my father and a neighbor rented it together, and so when the property was sold after it ended, Camp Adair, the owner of the property had first choice to buy it back. And if not, then the renter had next choice. So as a renter I bought the property back for my brother. And I think that's about the time he was in the Sea Bees, wasn't he?

Wilma "Willie" Rohner: [WILMA] Well, yeah, just about the time he went in. '50 1 think you bought, and

Speaker attribution inferred from typography where the printed page prints only Q and A.

How to cite this item

The first line is the citation as it is printed in the original. Use it when you cite the work itself. Use the second when you cite this page.

As printed: Zybach, Bob 1993. John Jacob and Wilma Rohner. Family Farming on Coffin Butte Between World Wars, Benton County, Oregon: 1919-1941. Soap Creek Valley History Project, Monograph #05. Oregon State University Research Forests and College of Forestry, Corvallis, Oregon: 132 pp.
This page: Rohner 1993. 8. Barracks Photograph, p. 66. America's School Trust Library, The Zybach Collection. https://schooltrusts.org/collections/zybach/soap-creek/m05-rohner/08-barracks-photograph/ (accessed 2026).
Cite this passage: Rohner 1993, p. 66 — Monograph #05:66
https://schooltrusts.org/collections/zybach/soap-creek/m05-rohner/08-barracks-photograph/#p66 Swap 66 for whichever printed page you are quoting: every page number in the margin is its own address.
Permalink: https://schooltrusts.org/collections/zybach/soap-creek/m05-rohner/08-barracks-photograph/
Original PDF: http://www.nwmapsco.com/ZybachB/Oral_Histories/Soap_Creek_Valley/05_Rohner/Zybach_1993.pdf

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