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Gully Control in Natural Drain

Description: Photograph of gully control in a natural drain, formerly 15 foot to 20 foot deep. Soil Conservation sloped banks, made fills and solid sodded to Bermuda grass. Approx. 700 acres drain through this outlet and erosion is almost 100% stabilized. May to August 1940 this outlet safely carried run-off from a total of 25 inches of rainfall.
Date: November 16, 1940
Creator: Jenkins, Elvin W.
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Class I Land (Upland)

Description: Photograph of Class I Land (Upland) in cultivated straight rows of cotton with corn in background. Ano apparent erosion. No conservation practices needed other than winter cover crops and crop rotation as practiced under sound farming methods. Chickasha Very Fine Sandy Loam.
Date: July 18, 1941
Creator: Jenkins, Elvin W.
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B1140.0438]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "The Rosser Brothers, left to right, Robert O., James D. and Ben W., tell Sergt. M. G. McBee, army enlistment clerk here, why they want to be air corps mechanics."
Date: May 26, 1941
Creator: Turner, John H.
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0957.0040]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Cementing of an oil well for the first time in "history" with equipment permanently mounted on a self propelled barge has been announced bhy Halliburton Oil Well Cementing Co."
Date: March 30, 1947
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society
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