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[Photograph 2012.201.B0097.0415]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "There are clippings in this book from as far away as Germany, telling how an Oklahoma farm boy, Wayne Boothe, had become a Star Farmer of America in 1943."
Date: February 21, 1955
Creator: Hill, Gilbert
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0121.0509]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "An old blacksmith shop is being cleaned out for a chapel for the use of underprivileged children- with Catholics, Baptists and Mennonites co-operating in the work at the Colony school."
Date: May 17, 1955
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B1128.0229]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Barton Riding, Sentinel, son of Raymond Riding is married has one child is a former state FFA president, has a net wortk of $40,858 just about tops the nation among this year's American farmers. He traded work four years in highschool for 80 acres of land to get a start, borrowed money from a bank to get his cattle. He now owns 163 acres, where he lives, rents anoth 516 acres of cotton land . He sold his shorhorn beef cattl… more
Date: October 12, 1955
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

Cavalry Creek Detention Reservoir #2

Description: Photograph of seven UNIDENTIFED people standing in a field near Cavalry Creek detention reservoir No. 2. The back of the photograph proclaims, “Cavalry Creek detention reservoir No. 2, one of first built in Washita River Flood Prevention Project. Water leaks out through gypsum beds. This is actually a benefit as long as the structure is not endangered, as it provides additional floodwater storage."
Date: January 1955
Creator: Brune, G. M.
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society
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