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[Photograph 2012.201.B1166.0108]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Shawnee Milling Co. has moved into its new 15,000 square-foot office in Shawnee. The mill can turn out 6,000 hudredweights of flour and 2,500 hundredweights of cornmeal a day. The company was founded in 1906."
Date: August 8, 1978
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Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

Watershed Treatment

Description: Photograph of Roland Lee, UWC, in 1951 developing a plan between the City of Shawnee and the Shawnee SCD to treat the City Lake Watershed to control erosion and reduce the silt load of streams feeding the lake. M.D. Gamble, Agronomist, SCS, checks conservation treatment of this large, once active gully. Water was diverted from gully and it was making a good seed crop, controlling erosion and furnishing food and cover for wildlife. This area is also protected from fire and grazing. The applicati… more
Date: August 8, 1956
Creator: Lee, Roland E.
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Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Shawnee Lake Watershed Treatment/Absence and Lack of Vegetation in Gully

Description: Photograph of M. D. Gamble, Agronomist, SCS, looking at native grasses established on flood plain area to reduce silt load of water going into the Shawnee City Lake. The back of the photograph proclaims, "Watershed Treatment. Roland Lee, WUC, in 1951 developed a plan between the City of Shawnee and the Shawnee SCS to treat the City Lake watershed to control erosion and reduce the silt load of streams feeding the lake. M. D. Gamble, Agronomist, SCS, looking at native grasses established on flood… more
Date: August 8, 1956
Creator: Lee, Roland E.
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Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Shawnee Lake Watershed Treatment/Gully Conservation Treatment

Description: Photograph of M. D. Gamble, Agronomist, SCS, checking the conservation treatment of a large, once active gully nine miles west of Shawnee. The back of the photograph proclaims, "Watershed Treatment. Roland Lee, UWC [sic], in 1951 developed a plan between the City of Shawnee and the Shawnee SCD to treat the City Lake Watershed to control erosion and reduce the silt load of streams feeding the lake. M. D. Gamble, Agronomist, SCS, checks conservation treatment of this large, once active gully. Wat… more
Date: August 8, 1956
Creator: Lee, Roland E.
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Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Shawnee Lake Watershed Treatment

Description: Photograph of Roland Lee, WUC, standing in a field nine miles west of Shawnee. The back of the photograph proclaims, "Watershed Treatment. Roland Lee, WUC, in 1951 developed a plan between the City of Shawnee and the Shawnee SCD to treat the City Lake watershed to control erosion and reduce the silt load of streams feeding the lake. Waster was diverted from this active gully on Class VII land, and it was seeded to mixed native grass. No longer is this a critical silt contributing area. Native g… more
Date: August 8, 1956
Creator: Gamble, M. D.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society
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