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Morris, 1914

Description: Insurance map sheet showing an area of Morris in Okmulgee County, Oklahoma, including geographic features, buildings, and details related to risk assessment for fire insurance.
Date: April 1914
Creator: Oklahoma Inspection Bureau
Item Type: Refine your search to only Map
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

Crop Fertilize

Description: Photograph of placing fertilizer in automatic bermuda grass planter. All bermuda reported during 1955 in the Okmulgee Co. SDC has been fertilized at time of planting.
Date: April 20, 1955
Creator: Evans, Charles A.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Harvesting Grass

Description: Photograph of Harvesting native grass seed with self-propelled combines. Meadow has been managed properly and conditioned maintained. Estimated yield of combine run seed was 100 lbs. per acre. Ranch planned and range managed in cooperation with Soil Conservation Service.
Date: October 17, 1957
Creator: McClung, F.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Trees, Tree Farms, Woodlands, and Forests

Description: Photograph of three year-old locust trees in an abandoned badly gullied land. The farmer built the check dams in the gullies, bought the trees and planted them shortly before the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) moved into that area. The area is rapidly becoming stabilized. OK-6346.
Date: April 16, 1938
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Grass, Legume and Forb Cultivation

Description: Photograph of the harvesting of grass. Harvesting native grass seed with self-propelled combines. The meadow has been managed properly and condition maintained. Estimated yield of the combine run of seed was 100 pounds per acre. Ranch planned and range managed in cooperation with the Soil Conservation Service. OK-572-1.
Date: October 17, 1957
Creator: McClung, Forrest
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Grass, Legume and Forb Cultivation

Description: Photograph of harvesting seed. Harvesting native grass seed. Predominately Little Bluestem with mixtures of Switch, Little Blue and Indiangrass. Eswtimated yield of 100 pounds per acre. Air dried. OK-571-12.
Date: October 17, 1957
Creator: McClung, Forrest
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Water Conservation; Water Erosion; Flooding and Prevention

Description: Photograph of flood water damage. Bridge abutment and approach on Little Cane. Creek washed only-in flood on July 12, 1958. Damage to roads and bridges was extensive from this flood. There were 2 overflows to date in 1958 and 3 in 1957. Damage to the bridge is being inspected by John Crooch, Soil Conservation Service. OK-631-6.
Date: July 15, 1958
Creator: McConnell, John
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Water Conservation; Water Erosion; Flooding and Prevention

Description: Photograph of flood water damage. Sonny Flack, operator, surveying the damage done to freshly cut alfalfa in a Cane Creek Bottom field. This hay is no longer of any use and must be picked up and hauled away to prevent it from killing the growing alfalfa which it is resting on. Approximately 25 tons of excellent hay were lost from this overflow, the second in 1958. Cane Creek watershed is not protected from flooding. OK-631-2.
Date: July 15, 1958
Creator: McConnell, John
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Native Grass Seed

Description: Photograph of SCS Technician J.L. McCraw inspecting the fill of native grass seed predominantly Big Bluestem. The estimated yeild of this meadow was 100 lbs. dry seed per acre with a good percentage of pure live seed.
Date: October 12, 1957
Creator: McClung, F.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Harvesting Seed

Description: Photograph of harvesting native grass seed. Predominately little bluestem with mixtures of Switch, Little blue stem and Indiangrass. Estimated yields of 100 lbs. per acre. Air dry.
Date: October 17, 1957
Creator: McClung, F.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Water Conservation; Water Erosion; Flooding and Prevention

Description: Photograph of flood water damage. Turning bay with a pitch fork in order to dry it out before removing it from the field. This alfalfa hay was damaged by floodwater on July 12, 1958. The damage is being inspected by John Crooch, Soil Conservation service [SCS] and C.E. Lagow, a neighbor, assisting Herman Flack to remove the usless hay from the field to protect the stand from further damage from the hay covering it. OK-6[unclear]-4.
Date: July 15, 1958
Creator: McConnell, John
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Water Conservation; Water Erosion; Flooding and Prevention

Description: Photograph of flood water damage. Windrowing alfalfa in order to remove it from the field after overflow of Cane Creek on July 12, 1958. Approximately 25 tons of excellent hay were lost from this, the second overflow in 1958. Cane Creek overflowed 3 times during 1957. This watershed is not protected from flooding. OK-625-12.
Date: July 15, 1958
Creator: McConnell, John
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Morris, 1904

Description: Insurance map sheet showing an area of Morris in Creek Nation, Indian Territory, including geographic features, buildings, and details related to risk assessment for fire insurance.
Date: November 1904
Item Type: Refine your search to only Map
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society
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