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[Photograph 2012.201.B1387.0469]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "The Oklahoma City Chiefs got unexpected scoring help from reserves Mike Wachob and Mel Workman Monday night as the Chiefs overcame a frigid first half and battled to an 82-72 victory Loyola of the South."
Date: October 15, 1968
Creator: Derby, Paul
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

Grass, Legume and Forb Cultivation

Description: Photograph of J.B. Cutrer, left, and Dr. H.H. Bennett, chief of the USDA SCS, right, watching a young Guernsey cow enjoying a good meal of fine clovers in improved pastures established in the Fall of 1941 at a cost of approximately $17.00 per acre, not including labor. Cutrer says "When the herd was turned into pasture on April 23, 1942, our daily milk production ranged from 275 to 300 pounds. Two weeks later, milk production ranged from 600 o 625 pounds. Also saw a large savings in food. Cattl… more
Date: April 15, 1943
Creator: Webb, C. G.
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Two UNIDENTIFED Men Surveying the Huey-McNair Project Drainage Ditch

Description: Photograph of two UNIDENTIFED men, one of them looking upstream, surveying the drainage ditch known as the Huey-McNair Project. The back of the photograph proclaims, "Looking upstream along drainage ditch known as Huey-McNair Project. Rod shows depth in this 9 foot cut. Side slopes are 2-1, the bottom width is 3 feet. Road on right will be graded down by Parish. Ditch crosses road in the background."
Date: May 15, 1943
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

R.T. Douglas on his Post Flooded Field

Description: Photograph of R. T. Douglas and his field. The back of the photograph proclaims, “Pig weeds grow on fertile land where I planted corn twice this year,” says R. T. Douglas. “My fist planting washed out and the second planting had just started growing when this field was flooded a second time, I’ve got about 75 acres on which there will be a total crop loss this year. If my new drainage system had been completed in time I expect I’d have made 40 bushels of corner per acre here from the first plan… more
Date: July 15, 1943
Creator: Jenkins, E. W.
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society
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