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[Photograph 2012.201.B0051.0588]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "A Phillips Petroleum Co. executive and seven other employes were killed Wednesday when their plane crashed and exploded in a snowy ranch pasture."
Date: December 12, 1956
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0310.0087]

Description: Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Playing jersey number 13 is no handicap to this guy . He is Dallas Dobbs, Kansas captain and guard, who will go into Saturday night's Jay-Iowa State match at Ames as the Big Seven's leading scorer with a 20.5 through the first four games."
Date: February 10, 1956
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Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

Grass, Legume and Forb Cultivation

Description: Photograph of showing a failed effort to improve pasture. In the effort to do so, Mr. W. M. Sears spot planted Bermuda grass sod every 16 square feet and overseeded it with Korean Lespedeza. The pasture was also limed with no results. The Bermuda grass did not spread and soon both the grass and the lespedeza were gone. This work was not done in accordance with proper land use. OK-274-10.
Date: May 12, 1956
Creator: McConnell, John
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Grass, Legume and Forb Cultivation

Description: Photograph of alfalfa, Double Creek watershed. Alfalfa grown in rotation with grain. Vetch and rye are used on this farm for soil improvement. Weeping lovegrass is planted on some Class IV land for soil improvement. Lime and fertilizer have been applied on the Chasin eden farm according to soil tests. All land on this farm are under a Soil Conservation agreement. OK-274-3.
Date: May 12, 1956
Creator: McConnell, John
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B1314.0338]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "In the lower picture North grid coaches Tractor Trent (left) of Deweyand Ber Jensen of Claremore discuss some stategy with quarterback Tony Banfield, Broken Arrow."
Date: August 11, 1956
Creator: Traverse, Austin
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B1337.0099]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Youth Legislators Beverly Day, house journal clerk, and Lou Wienecke, house reading clerk and John Aken, speakr of the house."
Date: January 27, 1956
Creator: Albright, Bob
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B1337.0098]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "John Van Aken, Bartlesville, speaker of the house, puzzles over a legislative question being put to him by Marie Anderson, Del City."
Date: January 28, 1956
Creator: Gumm, John
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Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

Grass, Legume and Forb Cultivation

Description: Photograph of tame pasture. This pasture, a mixture of alfalfa and tall fescue grass is not grazed in the summer so that it will go into the fall with 2 to 3 tons per acre of forage on the ground for winter. It is used in a pasture rotation system with a pasture of brown grass and alfalfa and one of midland Bermuda brome grass overseeded with vetch rye. The improvements were made on these pastures with the assistance of the Soil Conservation Service. OK-274-12.
Date: May 12, 1956
Creator: McConnell, John
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Water Conservation; Water Erosion; Flooding and Prevention

Description: Photograph of vegetation of flood detention structures. The use of the machinery on slopes of 3:1 or steeper requires a cable set up to hold equipment , both for safety and to prevent damage to the seedbed by equipment slippage. This contractor used a reenforced railroad rail secured to a cat-tractor with a wench mounted on each and for two cables--one for the tractor and one for the sprigging machine. Note box for hauling extra supplies of roots. An operator on sprigging machine is essential t… more
Date: April 23, 1956
Creator: Gamble, M. D.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Double Creek Watershed Sign

Description: Photograph of the sign on US Highway 75 at the entrance into Double Creek Watershed from the south. The six upstream detention dams constructed on the watershed were designed and constructed by the Soil Conservation Service.
Date: May 12, 1956
Creator: McConnell, John
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society
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