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BASEMENT BOX 67.0381

Description: Guymon Fire department truck and fire fighters at end of daytime fire. Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "The north side of the fire-razed Guymon Lumber Co., with the bordering row of scorched trees attesting to the intense heat involved."
Date: October 4, 1957
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[BASEMENT BOX 67.0563]

Description: Photograph is of a fireman on a ladder in the air off the top of the pump truck. The fireman is spraying water directly on top of a structure with no roof due to a fire. Two fireman are on the ground near the front of the building holding a fire hose. The photograph was taken in the night time. Caption: "Firemen fight costly Stillwater Lumber yard blaze."
Date: July 4, 1955
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

Grant Dunlap family

Description: Photograph is of a man, woman with a baby and two small children sitting on the hearth of a fireplace. the man is reading a paper while the female child has her hand on her cheek and is looking straight at the photographer. Caption: "But Fortunately, it wasn't for long here Thursday when the Grant Dunlap family arrived from Baltimore."
Date: May 4, 1950
Creator: Kaho, C. J.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[BASEMENT BOX 67.0048]

Description: A daylight photograph showing the aftermath of an explosion involving oil-filled railroad tank cars at Shattuck in Ellis County, Oklahoma. The image shows damaged telephone poles and a destroyed building near the local grain elevator. Caption: "Wreckage was piled high in Shattuck early Tuesday morning after six oil-filled tank cars exploded."
Date: March 4, 1958
Creator: Lucas, Jim
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[BASEMENT BOX 67.0058]

Description: A daylight photograph of a railroad tank car wrapped in debris caused by the derailment and explosion of oil-filled tank cars at Shattuck in Ellis County, Oklahoma. No caption.
Date: March 4, 1958
Creator: Lucas, Jim
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[BASEMENT BOX 67.0047]

Description: A daylight photograph showing the burning wreckage of oil-filled tank cars after a railroad derailment and explosion at Shattuck, Ellis County, Oklahoma. Caption: "Wreckage was piled high in Shattuck early Tuesday morning after six oil-filled tank cars exploded."
Date: March 4, 1958
Creator: Lucas, Jim
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

Fescue Lodino Clover Pasture

Description: Photograph of a Fescue-Ladino clover pasture planted in fall of 1956. Upland soil-5% slope, has produces and still producing excellent pasture. Lime-fertilized-managed.
Date: November 4, 1959
Creator: Bryan, Hugo
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Wet Spots in a Spinach Field

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

Grass, Legume and Forb Cultivation

Description: Photograph of Howard Nix combining native bluestem mixture on the farm of Alva Tims. Proper range management and rotation grazing permitted the harvest of 1500 pounds of bluestem mixture from approximately 35 acres. OK-190-1.
Date: November 4, 1955
Creator: Martin, J. Vernon
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Grass, Legume and Forb Cultivation

Description: Photograph of range. Good stand and cover development in one growing season. Part of the cover consists of broomweeds and Johnson grass which will be replaced with better grasses under proper management. Planting has not been grassed to date. This planting was made in the spring of 1958 and the mixture consisted of grama and some bluestem grasses. OK-488-1-B.
Date: August 4, 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 native grass planting. Good stand of mixed native bluestem grasses planted in 1957 and grazed off during the past winter. This pasture is now deferred. It is on the east side of road across from a 1956 native grass planting. The fence was removed in 1958 and was thrown in with the big pasture and shows the result of being subjected to heavy grazing. It has deteriorated in condition from the time the photo was made on 1957-05-15. OK-487-8-B.
Date: August 4, 1958
Creator: McConnell, John
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Three UNIDENTIFED Workers Placing Crushed Stone Around 18-Inch Corrugated Sheet Metal Pipe for Municipal/Flood Prevention Structure

Description: Photograph of three UNIDENTIFED workers placing crushed stone around 18-inch corrugated sheet metal pipe in preparation for grouting to form working platform under municipal/flood prevention structure. The back of the photograph proclaims, "Flood Prevention Structure. Placing crushed stone around 18" corr. sh. mt. pipe in preparation for grouting to form working platform under municipal structure."
Date: December 4, 1956
Creator: Cornforth, Kenneth
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

[P2012.201.B0941.0657]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Familiar sight at the Kingston station is Mrs. Nesbett marking up the two north bound and two south bound trains." Photograph is of an older woman leaning on a chalk board as she writes on the chalk board. The chalk board appears to show the train schedule for the day. The woman is dressed casually in short sleeves.
Date: June 4, 1952
Creator: Lucas, Jim
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

Fescue Lodino Clover

Description: Photograph of fescue-lodino clover pasture planted in fall of 1956. Upland soil 5% slope. Has produced and still producing excellent pasture. Limed-fertilized-mamaged.
Date: November 4, 1959
Creator: Bryan, Hugo
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Gully erosion

Description: Photograph of looking downstream from the head of the gully shown in Okla. 19,524-1. Recently fallen masses of earth are seen all along the bottom. The next rainfall run off through the gully will take this earth on into Sandstone Creek. Diversions, drop inlets and gully plugs are used to stop the damage from gullies of this type.
Date: October 4, 1950
Creator: Davis, David O.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Detention Reservoir Construction

Description: Photograph of permant pool 23 acres surface area taking 1.6 inches of runoff. Flood pool 77 acres surface area taking 5.7 inches runoff. Discharge 10 cubic fee per second per square mile of drainage area. Reservoir is shown here nearing completion. This is a view of the downstream face of the dam. Discharge pipe is being laid at right, below the dam.
Date: October 4, 1950
Creator: Davis, David O.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Bluestem Seedlings

Description: Photograph of each peg marks the location of one or more little bluestem seedling starting growth in dense buffalo grass.
Date: October 4, 1950
Creator: Whittington, Fred
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Bluestem Seedlings

Description: Photograph of each peg marks the location of one or more little bluestem seedling starting growth in dense buffalo grass.
Date: October 4, 1950
Creator: Whittington, Fred
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Brush Control

Description: Photograph of oak and blackjack timber sprayed in the spring of 1957. The kill looks fair but will need retreatment. The grass growth is good in the sprayed area and has been deferred from grazing. The brush was sprayed by airplane with 2-4-5-T and land owner was assisted under the ACP program.
Date: August 4, 1958
Creator: McConnell, John
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Waterway

Description: Photograph of a waterway constructed in the spring of 1958 to be sodded to bermuda grass. When sodded, waterway will carry water from an overhead diversion terrace and terraces in the field below diversion. This job when completed will aid in controlling erosion on a 20 acre field on Class II land which is the only cropland remaining on this 80 acre farm.
Date: August 4, 1958
Creator: McConnell, John
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Farm Pond Construction

Description: Photograph of farm pond construction showing how the base of the pond is cleared off and the soil is pushed up to the back side. This top soil will be pushed up to the top and back sides of the 3:1 slope on the pond. This will aid in controlling erosion and will make establishment of a vegetative cover much easier. This type construction is required in the Jefferson County Soil Conservation District.
Date: August 4, 1958
Creator: McConnell, John
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society
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