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[Photograph 2012.201.B1192.0631]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "This is one of 20 diversion terraces being constructed in the Lake Altus area as part of the program being undertaken by the bureau of reclamation and the soil conservation service in southwestern Oklahoma in an effort to repel the destructive erosion which results in depleted watersheds, silted reservoirs and consequent short water supply for irrigation projects."
Date: 1949
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B1192.0594]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "OKLA 5154 : Severe sheet and slight gully erosion on an unterraced field after a heavy rain. (J. A. Falen farm [NE 1 / 4 of 35-12N-21W])"
Date: May 3, 1936
Creator: SCS Photo - Richard W. Hufnagle
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B1192.0618]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Effects of erosion through the years is shown here graphically at the Red Plains Experiment station field day. (Leon J. McDonald standing in center lecturing to crowd)"
Date: 1952
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B1192.0615]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Work already has been completed on more than 12,500 acres. Sudan grass in dark strips with cotton planted in lighter rows between. Near Pecan Creek, Muskogee, Oklahoma."
Date: 1937
Creator: SCS Photo - R. W. Hufnagle
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B1192.0609]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "They're chopping holes all over their fallow fields out there now, holes to catch rain and hold it. J. C. Ramsey, farmer near Hooker, bought a length of water pipe and some old disc blades and paid a blacksmith $5 to make this contraption."
Date: 1939
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B1192.0582]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "This is a road, no matter what you think - the kind that is costing Oklahoma taxpayers millions of dollars annually in a futile effort to keep them passable."
Date: 1946
Creator: Hill, Gilbert
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B1192.0593]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "OKLA 5247 : Long terrace outlet channel which was constructed a year before the terraces were made. (Phillip Lieninger farm [SE 1 / 2 of 29-19N-2E])"
Date: June 12, 1936
Creator: SCS Photo - Richard W. Hufnagle
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society
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