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[Photograph 2012.201.B1414.0120]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "CRITICALLY HURT, Mrs. E.L. Wilson of Eufaula is sheltered by a blanket held by a passing motorist while awaiting an ambulance beside the shattered wreckage of the family pickup."
Date: May 4, 1972
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0358B.0042]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Kristin Liersch holds one of the items found in the store."
Date: December 4, 1983
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0366B.0474]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "A landscape workman at Arrowhead Lodge tucked his lunchbox in this redbud tree recently while he manicured the lawns around the state lodge at Lake Eufaula."
Date: April 4, 1980
Creator: McLaughlin, Al
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0358B.0041]

Description: Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company.
Date: December 4, 1983
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

Farming Equipment and Methods

Description: Photograph of an unidentified man engaged in contour and terrace plowing. OK-8698.
Date: February 4, 1944
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B1396.0109]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "PEACE JUSTICE AT 22, Ike Edward Warren, Eufaula, takes his oath of office from Madeline Mathews, McIntosh County Judge. Warren defeated J.T. McCarson for the office in the Democratic primary, and is believed to be the Warren, Eufaula."
Date: January 4, 1965
Creator: Parkhurst, Dean
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B1320.0174]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Even on a bad day, Melvin Underhill brings in good string of crappie."
Date: May 4, 1984
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

Farming Equipment and Methods

Description: Photograph of use of two bottom plows to plow out channel of new terraces that were constructed with a small road maintainer. Mr. O.N. Newton (on the tractor) owned a farm 1 mile south, 1 mile west which he terraced in 1938 under CCC supervision. Before renting this 160 acre farm (with 60 acres cultivated), this year he told the owner he would rather not farm it unless it was terraced. Newton agreed to rent equipment and build 5,300 feet of terraces and in return, Mr M. Cook, the owner, agreed … more
Date: February 4, 1944
Creator: Jenkins, Elvin W.
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Trees, Tree Farms, Woodlands, and Forests

Description: Photograph of tree spraying. District equipment manager using district-owned sprayer to kill undesirable trees and brush. Soil Conservation Services [SCS] recommends spraying timber under 3 inches in diameter as it reduces re-growth much more than mechanical clearing. OK-579-1.
Date: November 4, 1957
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Fame Drainage Project, Grader Constructed, Two-Mile Long Drainage Ditch

Description: Photograph of Rt. Abbie Busha and Katie Fisher standing in a two-mile long drainage ditch, constructed via grader, for the disposal of excess surface water for over twenty-one farms in the area. This benefits 1790 acres, while the excess surface water drains into the North Canadian River. People shown in photo go as followed from left to right: 1. Rt. Abbie Busha, 2. Katie Fisher. The back of the photograph proclaims, "2 Mile long, grader constructed, drainage ditch for disposal of excess surfa… more
Date: February 4, 1943
Creator: Jenkins, E. W.
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Drainage System Construction

Description: Photograph of Improved Drainage Ditch in Fame Bottom Farms Drainage project (see OK-8709 for view of unimproved ditch immediately above and adjoining these two farms). About 20% of the land in Fame Bottom very frequently produces crop failures due to excess water on the fields. Average crop yields on fields not damaged by [unclear] of cotton per acre; 35 pounds corn per acre. Properly drained, the land in this bottom will produce 4 tons of alfalfa would fail. The drainage project benefits 1790 … more
Date: February 4, 1944
Creator: Jenkins, Elvin W.
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society
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