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Sweetclover Growing on former Coal Strip Mining Spoil Banks

Description: Photograph of Sweetclover growing on spoil banks left after strip mining of coal. A few trees are also growing in the area. The back of the photograph proclaims, "Sweet clover growing on spoil banks left after strip mining of coal. Leveling of these spoil banks would be more costly than the present value of the land. The clover was airplane seeded to establish some type of vegetation on the banks to build the soil up to where it would support grass. When covered with grass these spoil banks wil… more
Date: May 21, 1956
Creator: McConnell, John
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Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Sweetclover Growing on Former Coal Strip Mining Spoil Banks

Description: Photograph of Sweetclover growing on spoil banks left after strip mining of coal. A few trees are also growing in the area. The back of the photograph proclaims, "Sweet clover growing on spoil banks left after strip mining of coal. Leveling of these spoil banks would be more costly than the present value of the land. The clover was airplane seeded to establish some type of vegetation on the banks to build the soil up to where it would support grass. When covered with grass these spoil banks wil… more
Date: May 21, 1956
Creator: McConnell, John
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0317.0255]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "In recent months many persons have stated that scholarships from colleges across nation are too easy to acquire."
Date: November 21, 1958
Creator: Matheson, Mandell
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Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0238.0046]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "William Edward Cook jr. is ushered from the courtroom Wednesday after Judge Stephen S. Chandler sentenced him to 300 years in prison for kidnapping and killing the Carl Nosser family of Atyood, Ill."
Date: March 21, 1951
Creator: Killian, Thomas F.
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Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society
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