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Grass, Legume and Forb Cultivation

Description: Photograph of pasture development and improvement. Beef cattle are grazing on Bermuda pasture overseeded to Dallis grass, yellow hop, black medic and white Dutch clovers. 15 acres cleared and sodded this year. Mr. J. L. Jeffus, the district supervisor in the picture, says “In 1937 I started clearing and retiring 216 acres for pasture. With the assistance of CCC [the Civilian Conservation Corps] we cleared 40 acres of small trees and heavy undergrowth and retired 176 acres of cultivated land tha… more
Date: July 22, 1943
Creator: Jenkins, Elvin W.
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Livestock

Description: Photograph of beef cattle grazing 20 acres of improved Bermuda grass pasture. Mr. Gunn, in the picture, developed the pasture several years ago from an old cultivated field and said, “I have mowed the weeds twice a year for three years and I’ve about exterminated a heavy growth of broomweed that hampered the Bermuda’s growth. In 3 years of regular mowing my grazing capacity has increased from one animal unit [for every] 3 acres to one animal unit per acre, 8 months out of the year.” Each year h… more
Date: July 22, 1943
Creator: Jenkins, Elvin W.
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Livestock

Description: Photograph of pasture development and improvement. Beef cattle grazing Bermuda pastures overseeded to Dallis grass, yellow hop, black medic and white Dutch clovers. 15 acres cleared and sodded this year. Mr. Jeffus, the district supervisor in the picture says, “In 1937, I started clearing and retiring 216 acres for pasture. With assistance of CCC [Civilian Conservation Corps} we cleared 40 acres of small trees and heavy undergrowth and retired 176 acres of cultivated land that in 1936 had overf… more
Date: July 22, 1943
Creator: Jenkins, Elvin W.
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B1412.0239]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Will Williams.. . he's spilled lots of sweat in the gin behind him."
Date: October 12, 1962
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B1312.0186]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Lee Todd, veteran trapper, stretches a raccoon hide."
Date: February 6, 1966
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0941.0726]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "The judge who acquired that title when he was Paris corporation court magistrate years ago has a phenomenal memory for historic detail."
Date: January 15, 1956
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0941.0728]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Almost 84, Judge A. W. Neville has completed second book."
Date: October 10, 1948
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0924.0134]

Description: Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Dedicating the new one-million-square-foot Campbell Soup plant in Paris, Texas, Thursday are left to right; W. B. Murphy."
Date: October 12, 1965
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0924.0135]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "promoting Radio Free Europe and its Crusade for Freedom are W. Beverly Murphy, left, president of Campbell soup Co., and Dr. Joseph Kovago."
Date: March 9, 1960
Creator: Gumm, John
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0941.0727]

Description: Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Editor Neville never cared too much for those ready roll cigarettes he's always rolled his own."
Date: January 20, 1956
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0941.0729]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Methods of smoking and newspaper work have changed in the past 50 years, but A. W. Neville, editor of The Paris News who celebrated his 50th year with the paper Monday."
Date: September 2, 1952
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0147.0346]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Wolves Line Fences an the Thomas Peters ranch south of Paris, Tex. The 25 animals were trapped this winter."
Date: February 4, 1970
Creator: Aker, Joe
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0091.0074]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "This is Hootie and her odd little family"
Date: 1951
Creator: Bryson, Ed
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0291.0220]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Paul Daniels chatted last week with a Soviet chap in the far north of Russia."
Date: April 27, 1969
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0244.0364]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Eleven-year-old Bill Cox is going to climb the highest mountain in New Mexico this summer."
Date: March 4, 1961
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0298.0296]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Paul Dedyan left his native Paris, France, at 16 to come to the United States and make a million dollars."
Date: February 6, 1969
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0226.0291]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "construction crews which now number approximately 50 men will approach a maximum of 400 to 500 workers by the time brickwork begins, the spokesman said."
Date: June 6, 1962
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society
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