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Railroad piles Rocks to Protect Roadbed

Description: Photograph of railroad (Rock Island) piles up rock to protect roadbed where Cedar Branch Creek makes one right angle turn & then another to flow under railroad bridge 4641. When swollen with flood waters & silt, creek cuts into farm on left. Shore's distance other side of bridge, creek enters Tonkawa Creek.
Date: April 16, 1948
Creator: Fox, Lester C.
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Diversion Terrace on Rancher Jack Kelsey's Land

Description: Photograph of “Rancher Jack Kelsey explaining how new diversion will provide additional water supply for stock pond.”
Date: February 16, 1959
Creator: Gould, Harold C.
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

O. A. Bingman Rejuvenated Pasture/Muskogee Project/Morris Camp #2

Description: Photograph of a “Badly overgrazed pasture which is being rejuvenated by use of contour furrows. Original furrows were on intervals so this year more were constructed with 2-bottom tractor plow and planted to Bermuda.”
Date: April 16, 1938
Creator: Slack, Jim
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Watersheds, National Congress

Description: Photograph of Henry P. Caufiled Jr., Executive Director, federal Water Resources Council, Washington DC, speaks to the National Watershed Congress, 1966, Oklahoma City. TRC 99-2.
Date: May 16, 1966
Creator: Archer, Sellars G.
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Watersheds, National Congress

Description: Photograph of the Watershed Congress, 1966, Oklahoma City, OK. Registrants at Congress with Oklahoma Governor, Henry Bellmon, at right. TRC-100-11.
Date: May 16, 1966
Creator: Archer, Sellars G.
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Watersheds, National Congress

Description: Photograph of Watershed Congress, 1966, Oklahoma City, OK. Dave Stewart of the National Association of Conservation Districts (NACD) at the registration desk. TRC-100-3.
Date: May 16, 1966
Creator: Archer, Sellars G.
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Watersheds, National Congress

Description: Photograph of Watershed Congress, 1966, Oklahoma City, OK. Russell Pierson, Farm Editor, WKY-TV [then channel 4] and radio, Oklahoma City, left, and Senator Fred Harris of Oklahoma. TRC-100-2.
Date: May 16, 1966
Creator: Archer, Sellars G.
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Watersheds, National Congress

Description: Photograph of Watershed Congress, 1966, Oklahoma City, OK. Registrants at the Congress with Oklahoma Governor Henry Bellmon at right. TRC-100-10.
Date: May 16, 1966
Creator: Archer, Sellars G.
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Watersheds, National Congress

Description: Photograph of Watershed Congress, 1966, Oklahoma City, OK. Duncan's watershed display. TRC-100-7.
Date: May 16, 1966
Creator: Archer, Sellars G.
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Watersheds, National Congress

Description: Photograph of Watershed Congress, 1966, Oklahoma City, OK. Hollir R. Williams, Soil Conservation Service (SCS) Deputy Administrator for Watersheds, addresses banquet meeting of the National Watershed Congress, 1966, Oklahoma City, OK. TRC-99-1.
Date: May 16, 1966
Creator: Archer, Sellars G.
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Watersheds, National Congress

Description: Photograph of Gordon Zimmerman, Executive Secretary, NACD, Washington, presides at the meeting of National Watershed Congress, 1966, Oklahoma City, OK. TRC-99-4.
Date: May 16, 1966
Creator: Archer, Sellars G.
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Soils, Soil Erosion, Soil Conservation & Crop Management

Description: Photograph of Dr. Hugh Hammond Bennett, chief of the Soil Conservation Service, speaking into a microphone as a recording I smade for a radio broadcast on the occasion of Soil Conservation and Youth Day demonstration. OK-6313 [?].
Date: July 16, 1941
Creator: Jenkins, Elvin W.
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Water Conservation; Water Erosion; Flooding and Prevention

Description: Photograph of Messrs. J. E. and V. F. Ritter repairing the damage to fences on the Zimmermann farm after the flood of July 15, 1959. Note the larger boulders in the road; they are all that remain of large dumps of rock placed there for road improvement by the county commissioners. The bridge in the foreground was completely submerged during the storm. OK-902-10.
Date: July 16, 1959
Creator: Matthews, James
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Water Conservation; Water Erosion; Flooding and Prevention

Description: Photograph of watershed maintenance: a fence being replaced on dam (Site 19--Frank Carl) to protect woody vegetation to be planted for wave section damage. OK-3703-1.
Date: February 16, 1970
Creator: Rhoads, Bud.
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Water Conservation; Water Erosion; Flooding and Prevention

Description: Photograph of Ted Savage, secretary, Ada Chamber of Commerce, looks at a permanent pool of Site No. 35 at the Upper Clear Boggy, on a ranch of district cooperator, F. Howard Walsh, Ft. Worth, TX. Savage has assisted district supervisors and Conservancy District 100% in the program in Pontotoc County. Son of the late E.B. Savage, Harmon, OK, original board member of Upper Washita Water and Soil Conservation District (WSCD) and brother-in-law of L. L. "red" Males of Cheyenne, OK. OK-1611-5.
Date: January 16, 1962
Creator: Bryan, Hugo
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Water Conservation; Water Erosion; Flooding and Prevention

Description: Photograph of Upper Clear Boggy Creek Watershed, Site No. 12. Cutting core trench for floodwater retarding structure, Site No. 12. Contractor--Paul Moody. OK-1238-5.
Date: December 16, 1960
Creator: Brown, C. C.
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Water Conservation; Water Erosion; Flooding and Prevention

Description: Photograph of Upper Clear Boggy Creek Watershed, Site # 38. From L to R: C. C. Burton, Jr., District Supervisor; Del Bumpers, District Supervisor; Harral Allen, President, Sandy Creek Water and Soil Conservation district (WSCD); Kenneth Yoakum, Work Unit Conservationist (WUC), Soil Conservation Service (SCS), Ada, OK; and ted Savage, Secretary, Ada Chamber of Commerce, observing core tranch for pipe of principal spillway. OK-1611-9.
Date: January 16, 1962
Creator: Bryan, Hugo
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Water Conservation; Water Erosion; Flooding and Prevention

Description: Photograph of, from L to R, Kenneth Yoakum, Work Unit Conservationist (WUC), Soil Conservation Service (SCS), Ada, OK; Jimmy Thomas, District Supervisor; Ted Savage, secretary, Ada Chamber of Commerce; Drexel Siles, Chairman, Pontotoc County, Soil Conservation District (SCD); Phillip Busby, former president of Upper Muddy Boggy Watershed Improvement Assn.; Uel Bumpers, District Supervisor; Dave Roberts, President, Upper Clear Boggy Water & Soil Conservation District; C. C. Baxton, Jr., District… more
Date: January 16, 1962
Creator: Bryan, Hugo
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Water Conservation; Water Erosion; Flooding and Prevention

Description: Photograph of District Cooperator, Irl Rhymes, foreground, showing Kenneth Yoakum, Work Unit Conservationist (WUC), Soil Conservation Service (SCS), Ada, OK, that he is keeping sediment pool drum down on Site # 9 on his ranch so can sod to Bermuda in the Spring of 1962. If valve was closed Rhymes could have a 42 acre lake of water, but wants grass at this time. OK-1613-1.
Date: January 16, 1962
Creator: Bryan, Hugo
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Trees, Tree Farms, Woodlands, and Forests

Description: Photograph of the controlling of undesireable hardwood over pine works. Competition of oaks and low brush is not reduced sufficiently for maximum pine production. Jesse McBrayer shown, planting pine in hardwood. OK-1442-2.
Date: October 16, 1961
Creator: Hayes, E. J.
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Grass, Legume and Forb Cultivation

Description: Photograph of the Big Wewoka Creek water project. The planting of Bermudagrass on the back slope of Site # 29. PL-556. OK-671-10.
Date: April 16, 1958
Creator: Abal, D. G.
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Grass, Legume and Forb Cultivation

Description: Photograph of the Big Wewoka Creek water project. Planting Bermudagrass in the spillway of Site No. 29. OK-671-7.
Date: April 16, 1958
Creator: Abal, D. G.
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Grass, Legume and Forb Cultivation

Description: Photograph of Soil Conservation Service technicians Paul L. Nelson and Earl Hewitt are inspecting Blue grama plants after 2 years of deferred grazing under the Great Plains Conservation Program. This pasture was badly overgrazed before the deferred grazing was put into place with this pasture. OK-1005-1.
Date: September 16, 1959
Creator: Bryan, Hugo
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society
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