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[Photograph 2012.201.B0297B.0422]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "This patient has a bedside view of one of the old fashioned cages at Fort Supply, until recently used to lock up disturbed patients."
Date: May 14, 1953
Creator: Albright, Bob
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0259.0263]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "The value of a Small kit, such as this one displayed by highway patrol trooper, Virgil Estes Jr., in teaching a class of driver's training students has no equal for safety instruction."
Date: November 24, 1953
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0374.0033]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "When Mrs L. F. Locke entertained the council of Garden clubs here Tuesday little she dreamed that she was honored "queen of the flower garden clubs."
Date: October 13, 1953
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

Soil Coring Tube Features

Description: Photograph of the features of soil coring tubes (in upper portion of photo). 1. Arrangement of the open side, milled with cutting tool. 2. Cross pin for driving and lifting tube (hardened steel). 3. Threaded (female) end of tube into which points might be changed (seamless steel tubing). 4. The tip made to specifications threaded (male) and hardened with variable size opening of tip to fit differnt soils.
Date: April 20, 1953
Creator: Bull, A. D.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Soil Coring Machine

Description: Photograph of a soil coring machine viewed from operators seat showing: Tube cleaner with soil coring tube lowered in which position heavy clays can be forced out by use o power. Motor mounting mechanism. Solenoids and wiring arrangement. Limit switch. Conduit to upper limit switch. Hole in floor board (3.5x4.5") for disposal of soil from soil coring tube.
Date: April 20, 1953
Creator: Bull, A. D.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Inside View of Soil Coring Machine

Description: Photograph of the inside cab view of soil coring machine from drivers seat. Tube cleaner in foreground is near the operator where 99% of fastened cores in tip can be jared loose by hand simply by setting tube in the cleaner and pushing downward on soil coring tube. Lower limit switch can be used with power by swinging around drive head with soil coring tube being lowered. Cover for drive mechanism. Hole in floor board to dispose of soil from the coring tube (hinged to jeep cab) and held open by… more
Date: April 20, 1953
Creator: Bull, A. D.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Soil Coring Machine Details

Description: Photograph of the front view of the coring machine, upper section, with cover to the right. 1. Idler sprocket pine bearing. 2. Upper limit switch. 3. Coring head drive and mounting arrangement on push pull roller chain. 4. Tension adjustment, slots and adjusting screws to tighten chain. 5. Breaker block to stop coasting movement of mechanism after limit switch cuts off power. 6. Cover with bolt hole which fastenes to angle iron support and fastened in place by stud in threaded hole in angle iro… more
Date: April 20, 1953
Creator: Bull, A. D.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Willis Jeep With Coring Machine

Description: Photograph of the right side view of the Willis Jeep. Jeep w/soil coring machine attached. The tubes one 52" long for making 4 ft. tests in alfalfa land for high water table-three short tubes, one for collecting profile of shallow soil under native vegetation, one for collecting a deep soil profile under virgin conditions (sample to be carried into the cultivated field for comparison and evaluate soil losses) and a third short tube to be used in process of surveying. Cab should have ample windo… more
Date: April 20, 1953
Creator: Bull, A. D.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Woodward County Pasture Management

Description: Photograph of an UNIDENTIFED man kneeling and inspecting wheat stubble. This photograph has no information written on the back, but is a duplicate or similar to 2019. 061. B5. 10132, which proclaims, "Wheat stubble of 1952 crop has been chiseled and properly one-wayed to protect this field against wind erosion. New wheat crop is doing well, but at the time picture was taken needed rain to sustain growth. This land is conditioned to take in and fully use any rain that falls. III RR 7."
Date: April 20, 1953
Creator: Fox, Lester
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Woodward County Pasture Management

Description: Photograph of an UNIDENTIFED SCS Technician kneeling in a wheat field. The back of the photograph proclaims, "Properly managed residue of biennial sweet clover has provided effective protection against wind erosion. Wheat here is slightly taller and of darker green color than most wheat in locality, but when picture was taken rain was badly needed to sustain growth. SCS Technician notes effectiveness of clover residue. III RR 7-0 and 12."
Date: April 20, 1953
Creator: Fox, Lester
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Wheat Crop Destroyed Via Wind Damage

Description: Photograph of Harold C. Gould, SCS Technician, standing in a badly blown field in which entire wheat crop has been lost. The back of the photograph proclaims, "SCS Technician Harold C. Gould stands lonely and desolate in badly blown field in which entire wheat crop has been lost. Emergency tillage has been of no help in face of continuing winds because of clean condition of the land. Immediately across road is field of alfalfa that has not only prevented erosion but has furnished good grazing. … more
Date: April 20, 1953
Creator: Fox, Lester
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society
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