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Pioneer Days in the Cherokee Strip

Description: Article describes the 1893 opening of the Cherokee Strip as experienced by the author and her family. Clara Williamson Warren Bullard describes her family's settlement of their claim, water scarcity, growth of communities, and the cultivation of land.
Date: Autumn 1958
Creator: Bullard, Clara Williamson Warren
Item Type: Refine your search to only Article
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0314.0082]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "State conference of the Colonial Dames of the 17th century were Mrs. French B. Harrington, (left), Los Angeles, past national president and chairman of the executive board, and Mrs. Ralph Dorr, Cherokee, state president."
Date: March 4, 1958
Creator: Miller, Joe
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

Captain David McNair and His Descendants

Description: Article describes the life and career of Captain David McNair, a prominent figure in the Cherokee Nation and owner of a boat yard on the Conasauga River. Carolyn Thomas Foreman discusses the people he helped throughout his life and includes correspondence from the time to create a clearer portrait of the man.
Date: Autumn 1958
Creator: Foreman, Carolyn Thomas, 1872-1967
Item Type: Refine your search to only Article
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

A Walking Tour in the Indian Territory, 1874

Description: Article includes an account published in the Cherokee Advocate by Claiborne Addison Young of a walking tour of Indian Territory, which included descriptions of the prairie and the people living there, visits to the Wyandotte Mission, the Cherokee National Female Seminary at Park Hill, and the Cherokee Orphan Asylum.
Date: Summer 1958
Creator: Young, Claiborne Addison
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Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B1128.0204]

Description: Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Mounted and arraged in these glass covered cases in the Museum. Dr. Kamanie (left) a german entomologist is in charge of mounting and cataloging all specimen for the museum."
Date: March 27, 1958
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B1128.0203]

Description: Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "This barrel type fumigator which uses msthyl=bromide for fumigation of smal packages of plant products received from customs officials, was built in Iraq under the supervision of W. O. Ridgeway, ICA entomologist from Oklahoma."
Date: March 27, 1958
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B1128.0202]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "This could be any old courthouse room in Oklahoma where a county agent hangs up bullentins and talks with visitors. Here he is in Baghdad, Iraq"
Date: March 22, 1958
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0260B.0789]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Glyn L. Hollabaugh superintendent of the Broker Arrow schools and a Northeastern State College graduate, will return to the campus as speaker at the summer convocation August 1."
Date: 1958
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B1186.0039]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Lee Smith of Cherokee breaks the tape to set a new Class B record of 4:38.5 in the mile run at the Central State track meet in Edmond Saturday."
Date: April 12, 1958
Creator: Gumm, John
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Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

Farming Equipment and Methods

Description: Photograph of conservation crop rotation. Kochia weed and salt grass on salt area where it is very difficult to get crops started. The problem is this—getting the crops started. Volunteer kochia weed serves as a priority treatment to get a cover on the land. At certain stages cattle graze readily and it supplies a large amount of organic material when plowed down in a seed-bed preparation. OK-745-2.
Date: September 5, 1958
Creator: Chance, R. J.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B1351.0464]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Builder Warr looks over part of the nearly 580 acres at Nw 63 and MacArthur which bulldozers soon will tur into "Cherokee Hills."
Date: July 30, 1958
Creator: Tapscott, George
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

Water Conservation; Water Erosion; Flooding and Prevention

Description: Photograph of a plastic protector for a waterway. State soil Conservationist Earl Rowley and Dan Hamill. Work Unit Conservationist [WUC], Weatherford, Oklahoma, demonstrates a plastic cover that can be spread over a Bermuda grass waterway where the slope increase would be a hazard. Water can flow over the plastic preventing erosion. The Bermuda grass receives sunlight through the plastic. Soil moisture loss under the covered area is reduced to a minimum. OK-692-7.
Date: July 10, 1958
Creator: Rowlett, Olen
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0302.0065]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Here for farm loan stockholders' conference Monday were, left to right, George W. Lightburn, Capron, federal farm credit director for the ninth district; Lyle L. Hague, Cherokee, district farm credit director; Elbert C. Hunter, Altus, Oklahoma federation president, and William G. Plested Jr., president of the Wichita Federal Land bank."
Date: December 1, 1958
Creator: Tapscott, George
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society
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