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Tebessa, Algeria

Description: Photograph of El-Ma-el-Abiode on a broad valley plain about 20 miles south of Tebessa in a region where an olive tree cannot now be found, are the ruins of a very large olive press, showing splendid construction. It was designed to receive and compress large quantities of olives expeditiously. The ruins show that 6 large presses with base stones 3 feet in diameter were used here. It strikes one with amazement to contemplate what this elaborate press for compressing oil from olives implies in ol… more
Date: January 27, 1939
Creator: W. C. L.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Wrecked Crop Spraying Plane

Description: Photograph of eight UNIDENTIFED people at the site of a wrecked crop-spraying plane after it hit a REA line when spraying crops with parathion. A US Army helicopter is on the left side of the photograph. The back of the photograph proclaims, “Crop spraying plane failed to see REA line while spraying wheat with Parathion. Army Helicopter from Ft. Sill saw crash, picked pilot up, gave first aid and took him to the station hospital at Ft. Sill. Pilot not seriously injured.”
Date: March 27, 1961
Creator: Cummins, Pat
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
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 Northern portion of the Greer County Soil Conservation District. The back of the photo proclaims, "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 be… more
Date: September 27, 1949
Creator: Postlethwaite, Hermann
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Wrecked Crop Spraying Plane

Description: Photograph of a wrecked crop-spraying plane after it hit a REA line when spraying crops with parathion. The back of the photograph proclaims, "Crop spraying plane failed to see REA line while spraying wheat with Parathion. Army helicopter from Ft. Sill saw crash - picked pilot up, gave first aid and took him to the station hospital at Ft. Sill. Pilot not seriously injured."
Date: March 27, 1961
Creator: Cummins, Pat
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Greer County Soil Conservation District Windbreaks

Description: Photograph of an aerial shot of windbreaks protecting valuable farmland east of the Lake Creek Store in the northeastern part of the Greer County Soil Conservation District. The back of the photograph proclaims, "Windbreaks protecting valuable farm land west of the Lake Creek Store in the Northeastern part of the Greer County Soil Conservation District. The heavily foliaged windbreak outing the lower right-hand corner of the photograph is a partnership planting on the Craig and Wilds farm bound… more
Date: September 27, 1949
Creator: Postlethwaite, Hermann
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Greer County Soil Conservation District Windbreaks

Description: Photograph of an aerial shot of community patterns of windbreaks in the Northeastern Greer County Soil Conservation District. The back of the photograph proclaims, "Community patterns of windbreaks in Northeastern Greer County Soil Conservation District, Okla. Plantings date from 1935 to the present and are being added to each year. Variations in continuity and vigor in this area are chiefly due to differences in degree of care and protection – the soils for the most part being deeply permeable… more
Date: September 27, 1949
Creator: Postlethwaite, Hermann
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Checotah SCD Conservation Practices

Description: Photograph of an UNIDENTIFIED District Equipment Manager using District owned equipment to apply conservation measures to a cooperator's land. The back of the photograph proclaims, "Conservation practices. District Equipment Manager using District owned equipment to apply conservation measures to a cooperator's land. Soil Conservation Service and Checotah Soil Conservation District work closely in applying practices."
Date: February 27, 1957
Creator: Brown, George
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Greer County Soil Conservation District Community Pattern and Windbreaks

Description: Photograph of an aerial shot of community patterns of windbreaks in the northeastern part of the Greer County Soil Conservation District, Oklahoma. The back of the photograph proclaims, "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 coun… more
Date: September 27, 1949
Creator: Postlethwaite, Hermann
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Greer County Soil Conservation District Windbreaks

Description: Photograph of an aerial shot of community patterns of windbreaks in the Northeastern Greer County Soil Conservation District. The back of the photograph proclaims, "Community patterns of windbreaks in Northeastern Greer County Soil Conservation District, Okla. Plantings date from 1935 to the present and are being added to each year. Variations in continuity and vigor in this area are chiefly due to differences in degree of care and protection – the soils for the most part being deeply permeable… more
Date: September 27, 1949
Creator: Postlethwaite, Hermann
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

60-year-old Cottonwood Tree Grove Used As A Unsuccessful Windbreak

Description: Photograph of John Logan, Farm Forester, standing in a 60-year-old cottonwood tree grove used as a windbreak. The back of the photograph proclaims, "Row of 60 year old cottonwood trees planted by John Rhus. Present state of trees without understory is causing a 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."
Date: September 27, 1949
Creator: Postlethwaite, Hermann
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Shorthorn Heifers Grazing Midland Bermudagrass

Description: Photograph of 10+ shorthorn heifers grazing on Midland Bermudagrass. A farm is located in the distant background. The back of the photograph proclaims, "Shorthorn heifers grazing Midland Bermuda grass. Old established stand with excellent cover. Chickasha very fine sandy loam (7) soil."
Date: September 27, 1961
Creator: Fortney, F. J.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
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 Northern portion of the Greer County Soil Conservation District. The back of the photo proclaims, "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 be… more
Date: September 27, 1949
Creator: Postlethwaite, Hermann
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society
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