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Selvidge Business College in Ardmore, Oklahoma

Description: Photograph taken during daylight of the two-level stone building in which was housed the Selvidge Business College, Ardmore, Oklahoma,1909.
Date: 1909
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

Gilmer Hotel in Ardmore, Oklahoma

Description: Photograph of Gilmer Hotel - Ardmore, Oklahoma, 1909. Horses and buggies shown in front of building. Two people standing in a doorway. shoes and harnesses repair shop partially seen beside the hotel. The Gilmer was the first hotel in Ardmore. William Franklin Gilmer was the owner.
Date: 1909
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

National Cotton Yard in Ardmore

Description: Photograph of the National Cotton Yard in Ardmore, Oklahoma with buildings and cotton bales.
Date: 1909
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

Elks Home in Ardmore

Description: Photograph the of three-story brick building "Elks Home" in Ardmore, Oklahoma with other buildings in the background. There are horse-drawn wagons and a man on a horse with a dog standing in the street.
Date: 1908
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

Firemen's Convention at Ardmore City Hall and Fire Department

Description: Photograph of Firemen's Convention at City Hall and Fire Department, Ardmore, Oklahoma; "Welcome Firemen" banner stretched across street above crowds. Horses hitched to wagonloads of men. Women posed in windows of building decorated with bunting, 1908-1909.
Date: 1900~
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

First National Bank in Ardmore

Description: Photograph of the First National Bank of Ardmore, a three-story brick building in a business district with other brick buildings. Men mill about on the dirt street with horses and wagons. "Masonic Temple" is engraved in stone at the top of the structure.
Date: 1909~
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

City National Bank in Ardmore, Oklahoma

Description: Photograph of City National Bank - Ardmore, Oklahoma, c. 1909. People and trolley shown in street scene along with other buildings.
Date: 1909~
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

Confederate Home

Description: Post card photograph of the Confederate Home in Ardmore, Oklahoma
Date: unknown
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

Broadway Methodist Church in Ardmore

Description: Photograph of brick church building with single steeple and stained glass windows. Utility poles and lines also shown.
Date: unknown
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

St. Philip's Episcopal Church Nave

Description: St. Philip's Episcopal Church interior view with baptismal and holy water fonts, flagon and ciborium.
Date: unknown
Partner: Episcopal Diocese of Oklahoma

St. Philip's Episcopal Church Building

Description: St. Philip's Episcopal Church with a crenellated tower. Ardmore's first Episcopal church service was preached by Bishop Brooke in 1893. This photograph shows the current church in 2022.
Date: 2022
Partner: Episcopal Diocese of Oklahoma

Grass, Legume and Forb Cultivation

Description: Photograph of switchgrass. The switchgrass was planted on March 27, 1956. There was no moisture to germinate the seed until April 28. The fertilized part receive 100 pounds of 16-20-0 per acre. OK-395-6.
Date: October 10, 1956
Creator: Fry, C. F.
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Grass, Legume and Forb Cultivation

Description: Photograph of Weeping Lovegrass. The switchgrass was planted on March 27, 1956. There was no moisture to germinate the seed until April 28. The fertilized part receive 100 pounds of 16-20-0 per acre. OK-395-5.
Date: October 9, 1956
Creator: Fry, C. F.
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Perry Collum

Description: Photograph of Perry Collum, tenant on the J. J. Thomas Farm, holding bur clover.
Date: May 3, 1939
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Aerial Shot of Soil Erosion

Description: Photograph of an aerial shot of soil erosion of Windthorst-Stephenville soils, sand savannah range site, Pulaski soils and loamy bottomland range site. The back of the photograph proclaims, “Soils-Erosion. Gullied are of Windthorst-Stephenville soils. Eroded sand savannah range site. Small area of bottomland in lower right corner is Pulaski soils and loamy bottomland range site.”
Date: December 18, 1961
Creator: Fry, Chester
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Watershed / Land Treatment

Description: Photograph of Lyndal McCrory, rancher of Milo, OK (right) and Herman Denny, his foreman, have been rounding up some of McCrory's registered Black Angus bulls. There are five watershed structures on the tributaries of Caddo Creek on the ranch and provide flood protection. McCrory has stopped all row cropping and has gone completely to cattle and grass. OK-2299-4.
Date: April 21, 1965
Creator: Bryan, Hugo
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Watersheds

Description: Photograph of the Ardmore Land Acquisition Committee holding a breakfast meeting on acquiring the land on three watershed sites on Caddo Creek north-south for municipal water and recreation. The project will also provide flood prevention. Louis Fischl, committee chairman is presiding. Also there: Curtis Williams, L.D. [unclear] and S.A. Pittman. Jerry Churchill was not present. At left: N.A. McGalliard of the Daily Ardmoreite. Left o fhim is Archie Welch, SCS, WUC at Ardmore[?]. At right is Wes… more
Date: April 21, 1965
Creator: Bryan, Hugo
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Water Conservation; Water Erosion; Flooding and Prevention

Description: Photograph of a graphic picture of an abandoned field very badly gullied due to incorrct farming procedures. This field, only part of which is shown here, could not even be reached by a pickup truck. Plowing the field up and down the hill was the primary reason for this "picture story". OK-5046.
Date: March 1936
Creator: Slack, Jim.
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

UNIDENTIFIED Man Mowing Pasture for Weed Control on Batis Farm

Description: Photograph of UNIDENTIFIED man with horse drawn equipment mowing pasture for weed control on Batis farm. The back of the photograph proclaims, "Mowing pasture for weed control. This is an important point in good pasture management and weeds can be controlled to a large extent if mowed at the proper stage of growth."
Date: May 17, 1938
Creator: Slack, Jim
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Farm Pond Protected by Contour Ridges Sodded to Bermuda/Ardmore Project

Description: Photograph of a farm pond protected by contour ridges sodded to Bermuda six miles north, two miles west of Ardmore. The back of the photograph proclaims, "Farm pond protected by contour ridges on drainage area. Ridges sodded to Bermuda and will be used to rejuvenate pasture."
Date: May 17, 1938
Creator: Slack, Jim
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Soil Profile of Gowen Loam

Description: Photograph of Gowen loam near the Fitzgerald Ranch. A measuring stick is on the left side of the photo. The back of the photograph proclaims, "Profile of Gowen Loam."
Date: July 1967
Creator: Fry, Chester
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Cattle

Description: Photograph of cattle grazing in a pasture.
Date: July 1965
Creator: Bryan, Hugo
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Weeping Lovegrass Growing on Noble Foundation Land

Description: Photograph of a field of weeping lovegrass planted in the spring of 1955. The back of the photograph proclaims, "Weeping lovegrass planted in the spring of 1955. Fertilizer applied in the row as indicated."
Date: October 9, 1956
Creator: Fry, C. F.
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society
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