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Skullyville and its People in 1889

Description: Article describes life in territorial Skullyville, Oklahoma, a town that was the original location of the first agency for the Choctaws in Indian Territory. G. E. Hartshorne, M.D. uses personal recollections of the town to describe its layout and people.
Date: Spring 1950
Creator: Hartshorne, G. E.
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Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

Exterior of St. Barnabas Episcopal Church

Description: Stone façade on metal quonset hut. Single front door, cross on right front, ladder on side of hut. Plans were being made to reestablish a mission in Poteau previous to 1959 but was not officially organized until 1959. There had been a mission in Poteau in 1914 but it was closed and sold during the Depression.
Date: 1959
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Partner: Episcopal Diocese of Oklahoma

Flooded County Road Near Tucker, Oklahoma

Description: Photograph of a flooded county road near Tucker, which has been blocked for 30 days due to poor drainage. The back of the photograph proclaims, “Flooding. County road blocked by high water. This road has been blocked for 30 days and the water on both sides of the road has not drained or evaporated for 2 years. Cowpeas planted for a green pea crop have been drowned out. Approximately 400 acres of 5 farms affected by water as seen in photograph. Individual farmer can’t do anything successfully ab… more
Date: July 24, 1958
Creator: McConnell, John
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Grass, Legume and Forb Cultivation

Description: Photograph of Lee R. Carlton, work Unit Conservationist [WUC], Talihina, examining a field of lovegrass (erogratis curvula) and Sericea lespedeza. The mixture was planted on April 19, 1955 and fertilized with 100 pounds of 10-20-10 and 200 pounds of 0-20-0 fertilizers. Mowed on June 10, 1955 at 15 bales per acre. Potato Hill, 6 d, drouthy soil. This is an introductory planting of weeping lovegrass in this area. It looks promising. OK-72-10.
Date: July 7, 1955
Creator: Gamble, M. D.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Grass, Legume and Forb Cultivation

Description: Photograph of the baling sericea lespedeza on the Andrew J. Costner farm, 3 miles NW of Heavener, OK. Mr. Costner is a supervisor of the LeFlore County Soil Conservation District. Charles Nobles, custom hay baler, and Roy Erwin, Work Unit Conservationist of the Soil Conservation Service, checking the quality of the sericea lespedeza hay. Twenty acres of sericea lespedeza meadow produced 509 bales of top quality hay. OK-10-873-B.
Date: July 15, 1954
Creator: Gamble, M. D.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Grass, Legume and Forb Cultivation

Description: Photograph of bailing sericea lespedeza hay. Mr. Andrew Costner, shown, is the supervisor of the LeFlore County Soil Conservation District. Hay is being baled by Charles Nobles, custom baler. This 20 acres of sericea hay meadow made 509 bales of hay on the first cutting. OK-10-873-A.
Date: July 15, 1954
Creator: Gamble, M. D.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Water Conservation; Water Erosion; Flooding and Prevention

Description: Photograph of Flooding. A country road blocked by high water. This road has been blocked for 30 days and the water on both sides of the road has not been drained or evaporated for 2 years. Cowpeas planted for a green pea crop have been drowned out. Approximately 400 acres of 5 farms affected by water as seen in the photograph. Individual farmer can’t do anything successfully about draining his land unless a master drainage plan is developed. Group drainage is needed. Soil units 9 and 15. OK-629… more
Date: July 24, 1958
Creator: McConnell, John
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Multiflora Rose (2)

Description: Photograph of multiflora fence and hedge which was the first one planted in the district. Cecil Keylon, SCS, inspecting the condition of fence. This hedge is on the north side of a pine planting made in 1955. It is a good plant for fence, hedge and for wildlife cover.
Date: July 13, 1956
Creator: McConnell, John
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Multiflora Rose as a Fence (2)

Description: Photograph of Multiflora fence and hedge which was the first one planted in the district. Cecil Keylon, SCS, inspecting the condition of fence. This hedge is on the north side of a pine planting made in 1955. It is a good plant for fence, hedge and for wildlife cover.
Date: July 13, 1956
Creator: McConnell, John
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Short Leaf Pine Planting

Description: Photograph of a five acre short leaf pine planting made in 1950 from planting stock brought from Missouri. This is the best plantation in the Talihina Soil Conservation District. Cecil Keylon, SCS, checking progress of the trees. Plantation was made in an old cultivated field.
Date: July 13, 1956
Creator: McConnell, John
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Sodding Equipment

Description: Photograph of a two-row Bermuda grass sodding equipment pulled by district-owned tractor and followed with a cultipacker. Planter is operated by C. C. Drewry and tractor is operated by W. T. Denson.
Date: 1958-07-XX
Creator: Turney, D. H.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

County Road Blocked by Flooding

Description: Photograph of a county road blocked by high water. This road has been blocked for 30 days and the water on both sides of the road has not drained or evaporated for 2 years. Cowpeas planted for a green pea crop have been drowned out. Approximately 400 acres of 5 farms effected by water as seen in photograph. Individual farmer can't do anything successfully about draining his land unless a master drainage plan is developed. Group drainage is needed. Soil units 9 and 15.
Date: July 24, 1958
Creator: McConnell, John
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Wet Spots in a Spinach Field (2)

Description: Photograph of wet spots in a spinach field. Soil unit 9H. Drowning out due to plow pan and surface crusting. Approx. 5 acres lost in a 40 acre field. Crop residue and land leveling would correct this.
Date: November 4, 1959
Creator: Bryan, Hugo
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Trees, Tree Farms, Woodlands, and Forests

Description: Photograph of forestry practices. A stack of posts, 6 feet in length, at the concentration yard near Coaldale, Arkansas. Type of posts which are being cut from the Henschell and surrounding woods. Posts are brought into this yard to be peeled, graded and prepared for shipment. Charles P. Burke, Oklahoma Woodland Conservationist, is checking a stack of graded posts. These posts are the result of proper woodland thinning. OK-335-11.
Date: July 13, 1956
Creator: McConnell, John
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Trees, Tree Farms, Woodlands, and Forests

Description: Photograph of timber stand improvement. Elmer Binns and son, Kenneth, operator and manager of Henschell timberlands, are cutting down marked pine trees which will be used for posts. Mr. Binns practices conservation timber harvesting principles on the Henschell woods as well as his own woods. Stand will be cut to D + 6 spacing. OK-335-5.
Date: July 13, 1956
Creator: McConnell, John
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Trees, Tree Farms, Woodlands, and Forests

Description: Photograph of timber stand improvement. First selective cutting on D + 6 spacing i.e., trees spaced acc. to the diameter of the tree plus 6 feet] plus crop basin in the Le Flore County Soil and Conservation District [SCD]. Roy Erwin, Soil Conservation Services [SCS] is marking trees for thinning. Trees will be made into peeled posts [i.e., bark removed]. This stand is a part of 900 acres under a management plan and agreement with the local Soil Conservation District. OK-335-4.
Date: July 13, 1956
Creator: McConnell, John
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Trees, Tree Farms, Woodlands, and Forests

Description: Photograph of the first in a series of pictures showing the results of airplane spraying of pine and oak. Area sprayed on May 25, 1954. Picture taken on June 10, 1954. Pine showed considerable damage. 50% to 75% of needles showed damage and 50% to 75% of all new growth showed characteristics twist from 2-4-5-T herbicide. All of the undiseable undergrowth show damage. OK-10-876.
Date: July 10, 1954
Creator: Gamble, M. D.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Trees, Tree Farms, Woodlands, and Forests

Description: Photograph of the first in a series of pictures showing the results of airplane spraying over dense growth of oak, hickory, elm and maple in the Potato Hill area and sparse growth of grass underneath the canopy. Area sprayed on May 23, 1954. OK-10-877.
Date: July 10, 1954
Creator: Gamble, M. D.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Trees, Tree Farms, Woodlands, and Forests

Description: Photograph of the first in a series of pictures showing the results of airplane spraying of pine and oak. Area sprayed on May 25, 1954. Picture taken on June 10, 1954. Pine showed considerable damage. 50% to 75% of needles showed damage and 50% to 75% of all new growth showed characteristics twist from 2-4-5-T herbicide. All of the undiseable undergrowth show damage. OK-10-878.
Date: July 10, 1954
Creator: Gamble, M. D.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Trees, Tree Farms, Woodlands, and Forests

Description: Photograph of the first in a series of pictures showing the results of airplane spraying over dense growth of oak, hickory, elm and maple in the Potato Hill area and sparse growth of grass underneath the canopy. Area sprayed on May 23, 1954. OK-10-875.
Date: July 10, 1954
Creator: Gamble, M. D.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Trees, Tree Farms, Woodlands, and Forests

Description: Photograph of the first in a series of pictures showing the results of airplane spraying of pine and oak. Area sprayed on May 25, 1954. Picture taken on June 10, 1954. Pine showed considerable damage. 50% to 75% of needles showed damage and 50% to 75% of all new growth showed characteristics twist from 2-4-5-T herbicide. All of the undiseable undergrowth show damage. OK-10-874.
Date: July 10, 1954
Creator: Gamble, M. D.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Trees, Tree Farms, Woodlands, and Forests

Description: Photograph of a pine plantation. Five acre short leaf pine planting made in 1950 from planting stock brought from Missouri. This is the best plantation in the Talihina Soil Conservation District. Cecil Keylon, Soil Conservation Service [SCS], is checking the progress of the trees. Plantation was made in an old cultivated field. OK-336-3.
Date: July 13, 1956
Creator: McConnell, John
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society
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