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[Photograph 2012.201.B0251.0002]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Mary Elrod, left, and Susan Hart are the detective division of the Anadarko Police Department. / One is a Grandmother. The other is a former University of Oklahoma nuclear engineering major. Together they comprise the all-female detective division of the Anadarko Police Dept."
Date: March 23, 1990
Creator: Southerland, Paul
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0149.0580]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "BLUE RIBBON winner Johnny Crow, Washita, looks at his Bicentennial poster which won first place Friday in an art contest sponsored by the American Citizenship Center at Oklahoma Christian College."
Date: March 5, 1976
Creator: Miller, Joe
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0417.0382]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "At Anadarko, Mr. and Mrs. Foster Finley will observe their anniversary with an open house from 2:30 p.m. to 5 p.m. in the parlor of the First United Methodist Church. They were married March 19, 1922 at Snyder. Andrews is former schools superintendent at Erick, Mountain View and Anadarko, and was elementary school principal at Anadarko from 1933 to 1956, when he retired.."
Date: March 19, 1972
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0077.0042]

Description: Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Russell Bates lives in Anadarko but keeps a foot in Hollywood as a writer for TV programs that periodically look for science fiction plots."
Date: March 18, 1988
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0296B.0288]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Rev. Albert Horse, 92-year-old grandson of famed Kiowa Chief Hunting Horse, will be honored Sunday afternoon Sunday afternoon at special services in the Cache Creek Methodist Indian church southeast of here."
Date: March 8, 1962
Creator: Traverse, Austin
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

Land Protected by Levee

Description: Photograph of land protection via levee ½ miles east of Binger and looking south from a highway bridge on highway 152 on Curtis Opitz’s land. The back of the photograph proclaims, “Looking south from highway bridge on highway 152 east of Binger, Oklahoma [sic]. The field on the right is protected by a levee. This field was of little use due to overflows before the levee was constructed.”
Date: March 20, 1958
Creator: McConnell, John
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Retired Cultivated Field

Description: Photograph of the proper land use of a retired cultivated field. The back of the photograph proclaims, “Planting of bluestem grass on a retired cultivated field. Old terraces are still noticeable in the field. This land is highly erodible and should be farmed with protective measures.”
Date: March 20, 1958
Creator: McConnell, John
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Sugar Creek Sedimentation Damage

Description: Photograph of sediment damage that has caused land to go from cultivable to willows along Sugar Creek and highway 281. The back of the photograph proclaims, “Looking east from bridge on highway 281 showing sediment damage that has caused land along Sugar Creek to go from cultivation to willows.”
Date: March 20, 1958
Creator: McConnell, John
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Sugar Creek Main Channel

Description: Photograph of the main channel of Sugar Creek south of Gracemont. The back of the photograph proclaims, “Main channel of Sugar Creek which crosses Highway 281, south of Gracemont, Oklahoma. This land was Class I and is now useless because it is covered with silt, Bermudagrass and willows. It needs protection from floodwaters to be made to produce at its maximum.”
Date: March 20, 1958
Creator: McConnell, John
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society
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