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Lead-Zinc Mining--Evaluation of Plantings

Description: Photograph of the area around the Eagle-Pichers Mine, Picher, Oklahoma. Slimes Pond Evaluation of plantings in Commerce, Oklahoma. This is a view of the IMCO mulch tiller manufactured by the Independent Manufacturing Company, Neodasha, Kansas, as used on the Eagle-Picher Slimes Pond hay mulching operation. Note the iron which weighs some 60 to 70 pounds each. These served to put pressure on the treader adequate to press hay into sand. Three tons of hay mulch per year were applied and anchored f… more
Date: April 1, 1968
Creator: Bennett, K. C.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Lead-Zinc Mining--Evaluation of Plantings

Description: Photograph of the area around the Eagle-Pichers Mine, Picher, Oklahoma. Slimes Pond Evaluation of plantings in Commerce, Oklahoma. . View facing north showing southeast portion of planting area (Field no. 6). Those are tree plantings without mulch. Borders of the area are mulched and the north border mulch strip was overseeded on 03-16-1967 to a grass mixture. Tree species are cedar, buttonbush, sycamore, cottonwood, black locust, sand bar willow, tamarix, and Russian Olive. Snow fences were in… more
Date: May 26, 1967
Creator: Ball, Lemuel
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Lead-Zinc Mining--Evaluation of Plantings

Description: Photograph of the area around the Eagle-Pichers Mine, Picher, Oklahoma. Slimes Pond Evaluation of plantings in Commerce, Oklahoma. . View facing east from southwest portion of planting area (Field no. 4). The three rows of rye planted in late September 1966 reflect differences in fertilizer application. The far left row used 600 pounds of 10-20-10 fertilizer at planting time. The center row used 200 pounds of 10-20-10 fertilizer on the right row. OK-2767-10.
Date: May 26, 1967
Creator: Ball, Lemuel
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0242.0293]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Vaughn B. Costley heads the new farm service department of the First National Bank of Miami and is something new in financial circles-a chap who can make a quick and correct change from a neat bank employee to a semi-county agent with soil on his shoes."
Date: February 6, 1947
Creator: Johnson, Bill
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

BASEMENT BOX 67.0266

Description: Photograph taken during daylight of women searching through piles of textiles. Caption: "Women who spend their work days stitching combat fatigues for American soldiers in Vietnam have switched to salvage work while awaiting the next cutting of material to sew. They waded knee deep through fire debris at the Glenn Berry Manufacturers Inc., Plant."
Date: March 21, 1969
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0295.0214]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "in milk--was part of the royal sendoff Thursday morning as Oklahoma's candidate for the crown of national diary princess, Norma Sue Davis, Miami, took off with her mother, Mrs. Leroy Davis, for Chicago."
Date: October 4, 1956
Creator: Tapscott, George
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0368.0169]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "NEW INSTRUCTOR is Major Arch Layman, new associate professor of air science and head of the air force ROCT unit at Northeastern A & M , Miami."
Date: September 15, 1961
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

Lead-Zinc Mining--Evaluation of Plantings

Description: Photograph of the area around the Eagle-Pichers Mine, Picher, Oklahoma. Slimes Pond Evaluation of plantings in Commerce, Oklahoma. View facing north-north central portion of planting area (Field no. 2). Cover crop plantings made and to be planted are to determine whether cover can be grown for eventual parennial vegetation plantings. Field borders are prairie hay mulched (3 tons per acre) and anchored with tandem discs. The tallest vegetation row is rye planted on 09-29-1966 and fertilized with… more
Date: May 23, 1967
Creator: Ball, Lemuel
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Lead-Zinc Mining--Evaluation of Plantings

Description: Photograph of the area around the Eagle-Pichers Mine, with slimes pond evaluation of plantings in Picher, Oklahoma. View facing west in Field no. 2, series 9, haygrazer planted on 05-12-1967 unmulched. 2 check rows without fertilizers, 2 rows with 200 pounds of 10-20-16 fertilizer, 2 rows with 400 pounds of 10-20-10 with 50% nitrogen top dressed on the eastern half. Raymond Magnass holds the pole upright between rows 3 & 4--top dressed on 06-24-1967. OK-2879-20.
Date: July 31, 1967
Creator: Bennett, K. C.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B1306.0499]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "ASSEMBLING EQUIPMENT for an exhibit in physics for Senior day activities April, 18, at Northeastern A&M college, Miami, are left to right, Price Vanover, Adair; Ronald Boyd Joplin; Florene Brown. Columbus, Kan., and John Theising, math and physics instructor."
Date: April 14, 1958
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

Farming Equipment and Methods

Description: Photograph of a view of the IMCO mulch tiller manufactured by the Independent Manufacturing Company, Neodesha, Kansas, as used on the Eagle-Picher Slimes Pond hay mulching operation. Note the iron which weighs some 60 to 70 pounds, each. These served to put pressure on treader adequate to press hay into sand. Three tons of hay mulch per year were applied and anchored following the planting of a native grass seed mixture prepared by the Soil Conservation Service Plant Materials Center, Manhattan… more
Date: April 1, 1968
Creator: Bennett, K. C.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Lead-Zinc Mining

Description: Photograph of Slimes Pond, Eagle-Pichers Mine, Picher, Oklahoma. Field #7 after traffic during operation of applying native grass mixture and topdressing of fertilizer. This 3.13 acre field was drilled to Balboa rye on 9-25-67 and fertilized with 250 pounds of 10-20-10 fertilizer. Top-dressed with 250 pounds of 33-0-0 fertilizer on February 1968. Rye stand yellowing on 3-25-67. On 3-25-68 this was gone over with a rotary hoe, then seeded to native grass mixture (south 150’ Vinita harvest) remai… more
Date: April 1, 1968
Creator: Bannett, K. C.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0368.0170]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "PAST ACHIEVEMENT is praised as Dr. Bruce Carter (left), Northeastern A & M College president, view air force commendation award to Maj. Arch Layman."
Date: October 15, 1961
Creator: Gordon, Ronald
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B1036.0613]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Afton, 14 miles south of Miami, is believed to have been named for the River Afton in Robert Burns' famous poem. Ray Painter, chairman of the board of Farmers State Bank, is chairman of the board of the five-man council there. He says that Afton is the center of a "million-dollar wheat crop" every year, and tourists and cattle are important to the town's revenue. The famous Buffalo Ranch is to the north, as well as U. S. 69… more
Date: May 26, 1962
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

Lead-Zinc Mining--Evaluation of Plantings

Description: Photograph of the area around the Eagle-Pichers Mine, with slimes pond evaluation of plantings in Picher, Oklahoma. View facing west toward Field no. 2, series 10. Planted sumac. The check rows are unfertilized; 2 rows are fertilized with 200 pounds of 10-20-10 fertilizer; 2 rows with 400 pounds of 10-20-10; 2 rows with 200 pounds of 10-20-10 fertilizer and 50 pounds of nitrogen top-dressed; and, 2 rows with 400 pounds of 10-20-10 fertilizer and 50 pounds of nitrogen top-dressed. Seeded on 05-1… more
Date: July 31, 1967
Creator: Bennett, K. C.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Lead-Zinc Mining--Wind Erosion

Description: Photograph of the area around the Eagle-Pichers Mine, Picher, Oklahoma. Vegetation on an old dike around Slimes Pond being affected by wind erosion, an effect of the fine silica (sand). The dike constructed to hold water and fines [ore and other products with a small particle size] from the flotation process. The pond will eventually fill with fines and is then abandoned. The area devoid of any vegetation is subjected to severe wind erosion. This picture depicts fines covering willows and cotto… more
Date: May 26, 1967
Creator: Bennett, K. C.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0415B.0033]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Among the celebrities attending the Mickey Mantle homecoming celebration in Commerce Friday was Tom Greenwade, center, the New York baseball scout, shown with Mrs. Mantle, left, and the star outfielder, who signed the young Oklahoman to a Bomber contract."
Date: October 17, 1952
Creator: Cobb, Richard
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0415B.0027]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Modest Mickey Mantle, New York Yankee slugging star, with Mrs. E. C. Mantle, his mother, and Mrs. Giles Johnson, his mother-in-law, had his day Friday."
Date: October 17, 1952
Creator: Cobb, Richard
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

Lead-Zinc Mining--Evaluation of Plantings

Description: Photograph of the area around the Eagle-Pichers Mine, Picher, Oklahoma. A foreground view of prairie hay mulching (3 tons per acre) between the dam and the south snow fence. The mulch was anchored with a tandem disc plow. No plantings were made here. Observations will be made on possible invasion of plant seeds from abundant vegetation along the creek and dam immediately south of this border. Just north of the foreground fence on the right are row sod and seed plantings of perennial grasses mad… more
Date: May 26, 1967
Creator: Bennett, K. C.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Lead-Zinc Mining--Evaluation of Plantings

Description: Photograph of the area around the Eagle-Pichers Mine, Picher, Oklahoma. Slimes Pond Evaluation of plantings in Commerce, Oklahoma. Foreground view of prairie hay mulching (3 tons per acre) between dam and south snow fence. Mulch anchored with tandem disc. No plantings were made here. Observations will be made on possible invasion of plant seeds from abundant vegetation along the creek and dam immediately south of this border. Just north of foreground fence on hte right are row sod and seed plan… more
Date: May 26, 1967
Creator: Bennett, K. C.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Lead-Zinc Mining--Evaluation of Plantings

Description: Photograph of the area around the Eagle-Pichers Mine, with slimes pond evaluation of plantings in Picher, Oklahoma. View facing west in Field no. 2, series 6, with broom corn, the summer cover crop planted on 05-12-1967. Unmulched. 2 check rowws without fertilizer, 2 rows with 200 pounds of 10-20-10 fertilizer, 2 rows with 400 pounds of 10-20-10, 2 rows of 10-20-10 fertilizer with 50% nitrogen top-dressed and 2 rows with 400 pounds of 10-20-10 fertilizer with 50% fertilizer top-dressed. Raymond… more
Date: July 31, 1967
Creator: Bennett, K. C.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B1265.0938]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "MIAM'S SOUTHWEST CORNER TOOK THE BRUNT of the Ottawa county tornado early Tuesday with heavy damage in suburban sections of the northeastern Oklahoma City."
Date: April 3, 1956
Creator: Lucas, Jim
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

Lead-Zinc Mining--Evaluation of Plantings

Description: Photograph of the area around the Eagle-Pichers Mine, Picher, Oklahoma. Slimes Pond Evaluation of plantings in Commerce, Oklahoma. View facing north (Field # 2). Five rows of rye planted in late September 1966 to determine the possibility of growing cover for use in establishing perennial vegetation. The first row from the north was fertilized with 400 pounds of 10-20-10 fertilizer at seeding time (September 29, 1966) with 50 pounds of nitrogen [N] top dressed on March 16, 1967. The second row … more
Date: May 26, 1967
Creator: Ball, Lemuel
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Lead-Zinc Mining--Evaluation of Plantings

Description: Photograph of the area around the Eagle-Pichers Mine, Picher, Oklahoma. Slimes Pond Evaluation of plantings in Commerce, Oklahoma. View facing north (Field no. 2). Five rows of rye planted in late September 1966 to determine possibility of growing cover for use in establishing perennial vegetation. The first row from the north was fertilized with 400 pounds of 10-20-10 fertilizer at seeding time (09-29-1966) with 50 pounds of nitrogen top dressed on 03-16-1967. The second row was fertilized at … more
Date: May 23, 1967
Creator: Ball, Lemuel
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society
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