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An Abandoned Farmstead

Description: A photograph from the Dust Bowl era taken by the USDA Soil Conservation Service showing an abandoned, drought-stricken farmstead in Texas County, Oklahoma. Farm equipment can be seen buried in drifts of dirt before a derelict home and outbuildings and a weather-beaten windmill
Date: October 5, 1937
Creator: United States. Soil Conservation Service
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

Three Row Orchard Windbreak

Description: Photograph of a three-row orchard windbreak. Mulberry on left, Chinese3 Elm in center, and Juniper on right. Note the dominance of the elm in spite of its being in position where it would tend to be submerged on account of competition.
Date: April 30, 1937
Creator: McLean, B. C.
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Blown Soil

Description: Photograph of blown soil accumulations in Russian Thistles in highway now 4 feed deep. This was caused by allowing thistles to grow along side of the highway which caught soil moved by wing from the adjoining field.
Date: April 30, 1937
Creator: McLean, B. C.
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society
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