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Farm Homes

Description: Photograph of the ranch house--the Dog Iron Ranch--of the Will Rogers' estate [the"White House on the Verdigris River"--in the 1960s moved near the Oolagah Resevoir]. The house was built in 1875 by Will Rogers' father and is the house in which Will was born and raised. The ranch is now being managed by a near relative of Will Rogers who has been a cattleman all his life.
Date: April 18, 1938
Creator: Slack, Jim
Location: 36.466990 -95.665354
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Water Conservation; Water Erosion; Flooding and Prevention

Description: Photograph of flood waters from Stillwater Creek encroaching upon the house of an African-American employee of the United States Geological Survey [USGS] as a silt collector. This flood was the result of a four inch rain in the Stillwater Creek watershed in the early part of June 1935. OK-9-485
Date: June 1935
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Water Conservation; Water Erosion; Flooding and Prevention

Description: Photograph of eastern edge of Blackwell, OK showing part of the city, highway, and valuable wheat land flooded by overflow from the Chikaskia River. OK-6555.
Date: May 20, 1938
Creator: Slack, Jim
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Farming Equipment and Methods

Description: Photograph of contour furrows in pasture land in order to control and preserve water as precipitation falls. Results have proven that this is one way to develop a good pasture. OK-5011.
Date: March 1936
Creator: Slack, Jim
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Two UNIDENTIFIED Farmers Cultivating A Cotton Field

Description: Photograph of two UNIDENTIFIED farmers with one crossing shallow gullies with a small cultivator and the other planting cotton with one row planter. A house and cars are in the immediate background. The back of the photograph proclaims, "Farmer crossing shallow gullies with small cultivator in cotton field. Another farmer is also shown planting cotton with one row planter."
Date: May 6, 1937
Creator: Slack, Jim
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society
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