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[Photograph 2012.201.B0418.0052]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Tom Finney, an Idabel attorney, was honored today as the outstanding citizen of Idabel for the past year at the annual Community Builder's banquet this week, sponsored by the Idabel Chamber of Commerce."
Date: November 1, 1959
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0118.0620]

Description: Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "John Burwell, left manager of the land department in Oklahoma for Dierks Forests, Inc., looks on as Royce Hunter, manager of the Idabel Chamber of Commerce, inspects doors and paneling donated to the chamber by the timber firm."
Date: November 26, 1959
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0297B.0632]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Glen Householder wears a hand-made war bonnet and is holding a combination pipe and scalping axe manufactured in the early 1700s by the British and used to trade with the Indians."
Date: 1959
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B1237.0193]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Badge of honor is presented Sam Sellers, right, retired Idabel chief of police. An officer for 28 years, he was chief for the past 20 of those."
Date: October 18, 1959
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

Kudzu

Description: Photograph of Kudzu at roadside. Planted by CCC boys in 1939. This Japanese plant is famous in the south for controlling gullies and steep land. It High in protein it is excellent forage.
Date: August 6, 1959
Creator: Hayes, Earl J.
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Trees, Tree Farms, Woodlands, and Forests

Description: Photograph of Dierks Forest [from the lumber company established by the Dierks family beginning in 1903] in Valliant, Oklahoma. Follow-up of OK_656-9. 25c OH soil Class VII. Forest cleared by a D8 crawler tractor. Cut on and planted with pine seedlings on March 1958. OK-1072-3.
Date: November 25, 1959
Creator: Killim, O. J.
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Timber and Lumber Treatment

Description: Photograph of a creosoting plant. Cylinder is 80 feet and 6 feet deep, has a capacity over 1,000 cubic feet of wood. This plant would cost $100,000 if purchased. OK-1061-10.
Date: November 2, 1959
Creator: Bryan, Hugo
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Timber and Lumber Treatment

Description: Photograph of a creosoting plant. Cylinder is 80 feet and 6 feet deep, has a capacity over 1,000 cubic feet of wood. This plant would cost $100,000 if purchased. OK-1061-9.
Date: November 2, 1959
Creator: Bryan, Hugo
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

UNIDENTIFED Man Standing Next to a 80-foot Pipe At A Creosoting Plant in Valliant

Description: Photograph of a UNIDENTIFED man standing next to an 80 foot long, 6-foot deep pipe at a Creosoting plant in Valliant, Oklahoma. The back of the photograph proclaims, "Cylinder is 80' long, 6' deep, has capacity over 1,000 cu. ft. of wood. This plant would cost $100,000 if purchased."
Date: November 2, 1959
Creator: Bryan, Hugo
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society
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