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Money Matters: The Stamp Scrip Movement in Depression-Era Oklahoma

Description: Article expanding on the previous 2004 article on Oklahoma's reaction to the depression era banking crisis of early 1933. In this article, Gatch ties the origin of the scrip movement to the writings of Yale University's professor Irving Fisher and traces the implementation of scrip schemes in nearly three dozen Oklahoma towns and explains the reasons for scrip's early success and rapid demise.
Date: Autumn 2006
Creator: Gatch, Loren C.
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

Drummond, 1916

Description: Insurance map sheet showing an area of Drummond in Woods County, Oklahoma, including geographic features, buildings, and details related to risk assessment for fire insurance.
Date: August 1916
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

Drummond, 1903

Description: Insurance map sheet showing an area of Drummond in Woods County, Oklahoma Territory, including geographic features, buildings, and details related to risk assessment for fire insurance.
Date: May 1903
Creator: Clarkson's Fire Map
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

Drummond, 1903

Description: Insurance map sheet showing an area of Drummond in Woods County, Oklahoma Territory, including geographic features, buildings, and details related to risk assessment for fire insurance.
Date: February 1903
Creator: Clarkson's Fire Map
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

Elmer Hein Contour Ridged Pasture/Stillwater Project/Garber Camp

Description: Photograph of a "General view of a pasture which was contour ridged about two years ago. Furrows were built in early spring of this year to bring about more uniform moisture distribution. Grazing was controlled and good stands of buffalo and other native grasses have become reestablished." A few buildings/homes are barely visible in the distant background of the photograph.
Date: May 6, 1938
Creator: Hufnagle, Richard W.
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Elmer Hein Contour Ridged Pasture/Stillwater Project

Description: Photograph of a "General view of a pasture which was contour ridged about two years ago. Furrows were built in early spring of this year to bring about more uniform moisture distribution. Grazing was controlled and good stands of buffalo and other native grasses have become reestablished." A few buildings/homes are barely visible in the distant background of the photograph.
Date: May 6, 1938
Creator: Hufnagle, Richard W.
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society
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