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Grass, Legume and Forb Cultivation

Description: Photograph of the sacking of lespedeza seed harvested with a Vance-Heakal combine harvester. Mr. J. B. Abrams with the assistance of his daughter-in-law, Mrs. Willie Abrams. AR-10, 410 B.
Date: December 7, 1939
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Omer and Orville Moore

Description: Photograph of Omer and Orville Moore, and their dogs, with opossum hides taken over three nights.
Date: January 15, 1939
Creator: Hurd, M. A.
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Perry Collum

Description: Photograph of Perry Collum, tenant on the J. J. Thomas Farm, holding bur clover.
Date: May 3, 1939
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Boyce Dilliard

Description: Photograph of Boyce Dilliard looking at vetch on the H. H. Dilliard farm.
Date: May 3, 1939
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Soils, Soil Erosion, Soil Conservation & Crop Management [?].

Description: Photograph of bank erosion on Cold Water Creek, with heavy damage to farmstead imminent. The edge of the bank is 500 feet from the house shown in the photo. OK-370.
Date: March 27, 1939
Creator: Haines, R. W.
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Sentinel Camp Pasture Contour Ridges

Description: Photograph of an UNIDENTIFED man standing in a pasture contour ridge on the Sentinel Camp. Several buildings are visible in the background. The back of the photograph proclaims, "Contour pasture ridges showing increased growth along the contours."
Date: January 20, 1939
Creator: Admire, Ira
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Sentinel Camp Pasture Contour Ridges

Description: Photograph of pasture contour ridges from the Sentinel Camp. Several buildings are visible in the background. The back of the photograph proclaims, "Pasture contour ridges showing increased growth along the contours."
Date: January 20, 1939
Creator: Admire, Ira
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Sentinel Camp Pasture Contour Ridges

Description: Photograph of an UNIDENTIFED man standing in a pasture contour ridge on the Sentinel Camp. Several buildings are visible in the background. The back of the photograph proclaims, "Contour pasture ridges showing increased growth along the contours."
Date: January 20, 1939
Creator: Admire, Ira
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Grass, Legume and Forb Cultivation

Description: Photograph of mowing pasture for weed control. Printed description on back: "This pasture was contour ridged for soil and moisture conservation, sodded to Bermuda grass and seeded to Dallis grass. Brush was removed. Ralph McIver is shown mowing."
Date: June 8, 1939
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Joe Wash's Farm Pond

Description: Photograph of Joe Wash's farm stock pond and sodded spillway near Chickasha. The owner sodded and riprapped the dam seen in the background. The back of the photograph proclaims, “Stock pond, sodded spillway [with] dam sodded and riprapped.”
Date: July 12, 1939
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Water Conservation; Water Erosion; Flooding and Prevention [?].

Description: Photograph of an earth dam near Kenton, OK. Dam has approx. 75,000 sq. yards of fill, approx. 2000 ft. long and will impound water over approximately 700 acres. The water will be used to irrigate 400 acres. It has a drainage area of 22.5 sections. During the dryest years there has been enough run-off water to fill the lake three times. OK-363.
Date: May 10, 1939
Creator: Haines, R. W.
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Lloyd Lafave

Description: Photograph of Lloyd Lafave standing next to traps used on the farm for rabbits.
Date: January 15, 1939
Creator: Hurd, M. A.
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

George Jackson

Description: Photograph of George Jackson standing next to a strip crop of Little Bluester grass.
Date: July 13, 1939
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Sentinel Camp Contour Furrows

Description: Photograph of contour furrows on the Sentinel Camp. A house, barn, and possibly horse are visible in the background. The back of the photograph proclaims, "Contour furrows showing moisture held in furrows."
Date: January 20, 1939
Creator: Admire, Ira
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Sentinel Camp Pasture Contour Ridges

Description: Photograph of pasture contour ridges from the Sentinel Camp. Several buildings are visible in the background. The back of the photograph proclaims, "Pasture contour ridges showing increased growth along the contours."
Date: January 20, 1939
Creator: Admire, Ira
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Tebessa, Algeria

Description: Photograph of El-Ma-el-Abiode on a broad valley plain about 20 miles south of Tebessa in a region where an olive tree cannot now be found, are the ruins of a very large olive press, showing splendid construction. It was designed to receive and compress large quantities of olives expeditiously. The ruins show that 6 large presses with base stones 3 feet in diameter were used here. It strikes one with amazement to contemplate what this elaborate press for compressing oil from olives implies in ol… more
Date: January 27, 1939
Creator: W. C. L.
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Wheat and Alfafla on Contour

Description: Photograph of wheat and alfalfa on contour to preserve moisture and control erosion.
Date: July 9, 1939
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Representatives of Fire Preventon and contro Assn.

Description: Photograph of a meeting of representatives of various groups and organizations to ork out program of Fire Prevention and Control Association at Broken Arrow, Oklahoma.
Date: September 7, 1939
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Burning Fence Post

Description: Photograph of a fencepost on fire. The weeds and brush behind the barbed wire fence was not burned off. The back of the photograph proclaims, "Fence Post Burning. Fire in this large pasture destroyed grass, fences, and wildlife, but did not burn the weeds and brush."
Date: September 8, 1939
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Contour Blank Basin Listing/Hobart Camp

Description: Photograph of a close-up shot of a "Contour blank basin listing showing where moisture was held from a four-inch rain."
Date: January 21, 1939
Creator: Admire, Ira
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Sentinel Camp Contour Furrows

Description: Photograph of contour furrows on the Sentinel Camp. A house, barn, and possibly horse are visible in the background. The back of the photograph proclaims, "Contour furrows showing moisture held in furrows."
Date: January 20, 1939
Creator: Admire, Ira
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society
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