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WPA Laborers at Rock Quarry

Description: Caption says, "A-390 Rock quarry. WPA laborers trimming face stone in stoneyard below rock quarry. Left is bull set breaking rock along chalk line. Right is hand set trimming edges of rock."
Date: October 11, 1941
Creator: Breitenstein, Frank C.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Museum of the Western Prairie

New Masonry Dam Face

Description: Caption says, "A-392 Rock quarry. End view of model section of face on New Masonry Dam. Model constructed in stoneyard below rock quarry."
Date: October 11, 1941
Creator: Breitenstein, Frank C.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Museum of the Western Prairie

WPA Laborers at Rock Quarry

Description: Caption says, "A-389 Rock quarry. WPA laborers trimming face stone. Man at left is using a hand point for cutting high spots off side of rock. The man at the right is using a hand set for working along the edge."
Date: October 11, 1941
Creator: Breitenstein, Frank C.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Museum of the Western Prairie

New Masonry Dam Face

Description: Caption says, "A-393 Rock quarry. Front view of model section on New Masonry Dam. Model constructed in stoneyard below rock quarry."
Date: October 11, 1941
Creator: Breitenstein, Frank C.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Museum of the Western Prairie

Roadside Erosion Control

Description: Photograph of Severe gullying of roadside channels has been halted by sloping and sodding the banks and sodding the slopes to Bermuda grass. Work completed last part of June, 1940. Roadsides are now being utilized for terrace outlet channels. When work was started, the gullies on each side of the road were cutting back into the fields and damaging the fence. Yukon Camp.
Date: October 11, 1941
Creator: Jenkins, Elvin W.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Roadside Erosion Control Project Site

Description: Photograph of a roadside erosion control project site. The road is to be resectoned and the waterway will be prepared to carry both roadside water and the excess from terraced land. To be followd with later pictures. Chickasha Project, Yukon Camp.
Date: October 11, 1941
Creator: Hufnagle, Richard W.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Water Conservation; Water Erosion; Flooding and Prevention

Description: Photograph of roadside erosion control. Severe gullying of roadside channels has been halted by sloping and then soding the banks and slopes with Bermuda grass. Work completed las tpart of June 1940. Roadsides are now being utilized for terrace outlet channels. When work was started, the gullies on each side of the road were cutting back into the fields and damaging the fences. OK-6450-B.
Date: October 11, 1941
Creator: Jenkins, Elvin W.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Contour Farming

Description: Photograph of contour cultivation on terraced field. Hegari and Red Top sorghum shocked with second growth showing wall. Terrace on the right is drilled on a countour to small grain. Terraces constructed in 1939 empty into Bermuda pasture. OK-8284.
Date: October 11, 1941
Creator: Jenkins, Elvin W.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society
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