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[BASEMENT BOX 67.0075]

Description: A nighttime photograph of a brilliant gas well fire reflected in a body of water in rural Stephens County, Oklahoma. Blue wax pencil marks are visible on the image. Caption: "Spectator's view of the blazing Stephens County gas well that has been running wild since 1 a.m. Thursday is shown above."
Date: August 21, 1965
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0317.0213]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Although the furniture here is personal in part, the space and arrangement of this living room is typical of the two-bedroom plus living room cottages at the Chisholm Trail."
Date: December 21, 1949
Creator: Johnson, Bill
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B1265.0577]

Description: Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "The few of the pews at the Country Side Baptist Church, nine miles out of Comanche were left standing, but the cushions were gone, and the pews were filled with cement blocks from the walls of the church, Wednesday evening after a tornado hit, accompanied by hail and heavy rain."
Date: April 21, 1969
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0382.0782]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "District Judge Arthur J. Marmaduke said Wednesday he had ordered the Bert Michael Lana jury locked up at night in a Duncan hotel because of tension and wide interest the trial is creating."
Date: September 21, 1965
Creator: Wood, Tony
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0301B.0510]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "A night of terror was described Tuesday by a brother and sister who said they were held hostage by Hubert Wilkinson, 22, accused of the shotgun slaying of an old- aged pensioner."
Date: July 21, 1970
Creator: Argo, Jim
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B1122.0302]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Charles Reasor Jr. , a Duncan, Okla. , boy who won the Oklahoma highschool and state amateur championships when he was 17 years old, is shown warming up for play in the national public links tourney at Farmingdale, N.Y. He shot a 78 Monday."
Date: July 21, 1936
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

Watershed land treatment

Description: Photograph of A. V. "Doc" Ely, cooperator with Stephens County S&WCD, stands in an alfalfa field pasture below the dam of site site 34 of a Wild Horse Creek Watershed project on his farm 4 miles from Velma, Okla. Ely says the lake provides irrigation water and the project also gives him flood protection.
Date: April 21, 1965
Creator: Bryan, Hugo
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Wildhorse Creek

Description: Photograph of site No. 34 on L. L. Humphreys farm N. of Velma being stocked with bass and bluegill fingerling fish.
Date: July 21, 1960
Creator: Fry, Chester
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Washita Wildhorse Watershed

Description: Photograph of land development below flood water retarding structure. Weed trees are being removed for development of pecan orchard. Reduction of flood damage ha made development practical.
Date: April 21, 1960
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society
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