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[Photograph 2012.201.B0226.0975]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Lower left: Everett Clark, airport manager at Mangum, sees to it that farmers in Greer county get their papers early Sunday morning."
Date: September 6, 1947
Creator: Johnson, Bill
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0106.0807]

Description: Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "The $55,000.00 bridge being constructed across Elm Fork of Red River, Five miles south of Granite on No. 6 highway will be finished by Dec. 15, M. K. Brown foreman for the SS and W construction company of Okla. City said."
Date: November 26, 1949
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

Cotton Field Enclosed in Effective Windbreaks on Frank Babeck's Farm

Description: Photograph of John Logan, Farm Forester, and his dog kneeling in a forty-acre cotton field enclosed by effective windbreaks on Frank Babeck's farm. The back of the photograph proclaims, “Forty-Acre cotton field enclosed by effective windbreaks. This is on the Frank Babeck farm 3 miles East of Willow, Okla. John Logan, Farm Forester, is the man in the picture.”
Date: September 27, 1949
Creator: Postlethwaite, Hermann
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Lake Altus

Description: Photograph of the W. C. Austin Irrigation Project at the Dam on Lake Altus, Greer County, OK. Processed by Spex, Tulsa, OK, July 13, 1948.
Date: July 13, 1948
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

Wind, Wind Erosion, Sand Storms and Dunes

Description: Photograph of a row of 60-year old cottonwood trees planted by John Rhus. The present state of the trees without understory is causinga more detrimental wind action than if no trees were present by funneling of the wind along the ground surface. Underplanting is needed. John Logan, Farm Forester, is the man in the picture. OK-79, 489.
Date: September 27, 1949
Creator: Postlethwaite, Hermann
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Trees, Tree Farms, Woodlands, and Forests

Description: Photograph of a concentration of field and farmstead windbreaks in the northern portion of the Greer County Soil Conservation District, Oklahoma. This is an unusually good observational area as windbreaks of all types are present. Note the lack of continuity in the single row plantings--a constant characteristic of such belts in limited rainfall zones. OK-79, 501.
Date: September 27, 1949
Creator: Postlethwaite, Hermann
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society
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