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[Photograph 2012.201.B0227.0331]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Mike Clark Of Willow."
Date: February 27, 1970
Creator: Argo, Jim
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

Cotton Field Enclosed in Effective Windbreaks on Frank Babeck's Farm

Description: Photograph of John Logan, Farm Forester, and his dog kneeling in a forty-acre cotton field enclosed by effective windbreaks on Frank Babeck's farm. The back of the photograph proclaims, “Forty-Acre cotton field enclosed by effective windbreaks. This is on the Frank Babeck farm 3 miles East of Willow, Okla. John Logan, Farm Forester, is the man in the picture.”
Date: September 27, 1949
Creator: Postlethwaite, Hermann
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B1435.0227]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "The search for an elusive jaguar which has been at large since Wednesday was complicated late Thursday when hunters learned a federal prohibits killing or harming the giant cat unless it first attacks a person."
Date: June 27, 1974
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B1006.0092]

Description: Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company.
Date: May 27, 1973
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B1056.0115]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "POULTRY JUDGES from Oklahoma placed seventh in in national competition at Chicago."
Date: November 27, 1956
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

Wind, Wind Erosion, Sand Storms and Dunes

Description: Photograph of a row of 60-year old cottonwood trees planted by John Rhus. The present state of the trees without understory is causinga more detrimental wind action than if no trees were present by funneling of the wind along the ground surface. Underplanting is needed. John Logan, Farm Forester, is the man in the picture. OK-79, 489.
Date: September 27, 1949
Creator: Postlethwaite, Hermann
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Trees, Tree Farms, Woodlands, and Forests

Description: Photograph of a concentration of field and farmstead windbreaks in the northern portion of the Greer County Soil Conservation District, Oklahoma. This is an unusually good observational area as windbreaks of all types are present. Note the lack of continuity in the single row plantings--a constant characteristic of such belts in limited rainfall zones. OK-79, 501.
Date: September 27, 1949
Creator: Postlethwaite, Hermann
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Trees, Tree Farms, Woodlands, and Forests

Description: Photograph of the community patterns of windbreaks in the northeastern part of the Greer County Soil Conservation District, Oklahoma. Plantings date from 1935 and are being added to each year. This area was formerly treeless, and even along the stream courses, but now—from a distance—it has almost the aspect of a wooded country. Variations in continuity and vigor of the belts is chiefly due to differences in degree of care and protection afforded the plantings—the soils for the most part being … more
Date: September 27, 1949
Creator: Postlethwaite, Hermann
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Wind, Wind Erosion, Sand Storms and Dunes

Description: Photograph of windbreaks, showing a row of 60 year old cottonwood trees planted by John Rhus. The present state of the trees without understory is causing a more detrimental wind action than if no trees were present by funneling of the wind along the ground surfaces. Underplanting is needed [i.e., to fill around, under, or among, for example, trees, with lower-growing plants]. John Logan, Farm Forester is the man in the picture. OK-79, 489.
Date: September 27, 1949
Creator: Postlethwaite, Hermann
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Granite Community Windbreak Pattern

Description: Photograph of the beginnings of a community windbreak pattern about seven miles northeast of Granite. The back of the photograph proclaims, "Beginning of a community pattern about seven miles northeast of Granite, Oklahoma, in the Greer County Soil Conservation District. While some of the plantings are 10 years or more in age, the remaining links in the planned scheme of protection have been slow in developing, owing to the lack of technical assistance until very recently."
Date: September 27, 1949
Creator: Postlethwaite, Hermann
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Aerial Shot of Lake Creek Windbreaks

Description: Photograph of an aerial shot of an extensive windbreak pattern just east of Lake Creek in the Greer County Soil Conservation District. The back of the photograph proclaims, "The beginning of an extensive windbreak pattern just east of Lake Creek in the Greer County Soil Conservation District. T. R. Hunter, E. E. Norman and other farmers in the area are already citing real benefits from the existing plantings. Additional belts are planted for the future, Farm windbreaks are also gaining in popul… more
Date: September 27, 1949
Creator: Postlethwaite, Hermann
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Cotton Field Enclosed in Effective Windbreaks on Frank Babeck's Farm

Description: Photograph of John Logan, Farm Forester, and his dog kneeling in a forty-acre cotton field enclosed by effective windbreaks on Frank Babeck's farm. The back of the photograph proclaims, "A cotton field protected by windbreaks on the Frank Babeck farm in the Greer County Soil Conservation District, 3 miles East of Willow, Okla. Mr. Babeck's very sandy farm is divided into field of 15 to 20 acres by three-row windbreaks. He is a staunch believer in windbreaks for sandyland [sic] areas and annuity… more
Date: September 27, 1949
Creator: Postlethwaite, Hermann
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Cotton Field Enclosed in Effective Windbreaks on Frank Babeck's Farm

Description: Photograph of John Logan, Farm Forester, and his dog kneeling in a forty-acre cotton field enclosed by effective windbreaks on Frank Babeck's farm. The back of the photograph proclaims, "Forty-acre cotton field enclosed by effective windbreaks."
Date: September 27, 1949
Creator: Gardner, G. C.
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B1353.0184]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Ingeniously emblazoned, this water in Plainview beckons the passerby with a promise of liquid relief."
Date: July 27, 1981
Creator: Southerland, Paul B.
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

Wind, Wind Erosion, Sand Storms and Dunes

Description: Photograph of of a row of 60-year old cottonwood trees planted by John Rhus. The present state of the trees without understory is causing a more detrimental wind action than if no trees were present through the funneling of the wind along the ground surface. OK-10, 276.
Date: September 27, 1949
Creator: Gardener, G. C.
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Trees, Tree Farms, Woodlands, and Forests

Description: Photograph of windbreaks protecting valuable farm land east of the Lake Creek Store in the northeastern part of the Greer County Soil Conservation District. The heavily foliaged windbreak in the lower right-hand corner of the photograph is a partnership planting on the Craig and Wilde farm boundary It was planted in 1935 by the Forest Service. The dark-colored fields are alfalfa—a crop that responds particularly well in seed production when protected from the wind. OK-79, 499.
Date: September 27, 1949
Creator: Postlethwaite, Hermann
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Trees, Tree Farms, Woodlands, and Forests

Description: Photograph of the Dempsey Brothers Farm on extremely sandy soil in the southwestern corner of the Greer County Soil Conservation District, northeast of Blair, Oklahoma. The first plantings were made in 1935 and the pattern gradually enlarged during the ensuing years. Crop land, orchards, vineyards and the farm buildings all lie within the same protecting scheme. The Dempsey Brothers claim great benefits in soil stabilization and increased crop and orchard yields. Their fruit has been saved many… more
Date: September 27, 1949
Creator: Postlethwaite, Hermann
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Wind Erosion

Description: Photograph of row of 60 year old cottonwood trees planted by John Rhus. Present state of Cottonwood without understory is causing a more detrimental wind section than if no trees were present through the funneling of the wind along the ground surface.
Date: September 27, 1949
Creator: Gardner, G. C.
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Greer County Soil Conservation District Windbreaks

Description: Photograph of an aerial shot of a concentration of field and farmstead windbreaks in the Northeastern part of the Greer County Soil Conservation District. The back of the photograph proclaims, "Windbreaks protecting valuable farm land east of the Lake Creek Store in the Northeastern part of the Greer County Soil Conservation District. The heavily foliaged windbreak cutting the lower right-hand corner of the photograph is a partnership planting on the Craig and Wilde farm boundary. It was plante… more
Date: September 27, 1949
Creator: Postlethwaite, Hermann
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society
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