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Flood Control Benefits from Mill Creek

Description: Photograph of cattle feed pens with cattle being fed ensilage produced on irrigated land protected from overflow by 4 floodwater retarding structures on upper Mill Creek. Two cuttings of ensilage made 50 tons per acre in 1960. Feed pens have capacity of 1500 to 2000 head. Other feeds produced include alfalfa hay, barley, and grain sorghums. Irrigation is from deep wells.
Date: April 24, 1961
Creator: Fry, Chester
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Grass, Legume and Forb Cultivation

Description: Photograph of grasses. Little bluestem in phytometer,* clipped at 3 different levels weekly during growing season. OK-1466-7. * a device that measures a plant’s transpiration (i.e., water movement through the plant including evaporation from its aerial parts) by placing it in a sealed soil-containing vessel so that water can escape only through the plant’s transpiration.
Date: September 24, 1961
Creator: Hager, P. E.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.0103]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Years of talking came to end Aug. 3, 1959, when a power shovel ripped down a building in two minutes signailing the start of construction for Oklahoma City's new Federal Building and U.S. Court House. Construction came to an official end in the last week of Novemeber, 1961m when government inspectors officially accepted the building from contractors on condition that late modifications be finished....Although constructio… more
Date: November 24, 1961
Creator: Cobb, Dick
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.0100]

Description: Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "(Photo of a guy in a uniform beside a large wall of electrical(?) controllers in a basement or room. Backside handwriting: "John Surbech(?), 100 SW 32 electrician helped install this switchboard in fed. Bldg. (?) 4 (?), moore?")"
Date: November 24, 1961
Creator: Cobb, Dick
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.0101]

Description: Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "(Photo of boilers(?) in the basement of a building with a control panel on the left side, pipes going every direction, and more.)"
Date: November 24, 1961
Creator: Cobb, Dick
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.0104]

Description: Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "(Photo of pipes in the basement(?) going every direction, four of them with control valves, and more. Backside handwriting: "Heating pipes & (?).")"
Date: November 24, 1961
Creator: Cobb, Dick
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.9246]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Three persons were injuired, one seriously, Tuesday when a Yellow Cab Co. taxi blew up and caught fire in the 1000 block NW 4. Two passengers and the driver were blown from the car when fumes from the just-filled butane tank ignited, District Fire Chief W. C. Roach said. Mrs. Dealie Schubmehl, 43, of 308 N Allen, was admitted to St. Anthony Hospital suffering first and second degree burns to her face, hands and legs, hosp… more
Date: January 24, 1961
Creator: King, Cliff
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.8228]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Heavy Framework gives Okatoka water pipelines firm approaches to river and creeks between Atoka Reservoir and Oklahoma City. Framework also is used where gradation is too extreme for normal ground support of 60-inch pipeline. Visitor to contruction site approximately five miles southeast of Konawa is Mrs. Dale Tapscott."
Date: November 24, 1961
Creator: Tapscott, George
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.3519]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma City Times newspaper. Caption: "Golfdom of Oklahoma City can quit holding its breath because construction crews can't possibly par the "19th hole" on time. This is the word from Lincoln Park golf pro U. C. Ferguson. "The clubhouse just can't be ready before July, but a lush revamped course is already in the bag for the Oklahoma City Open, June 8-11." The sprawling northeast city course is acting much like one of its golfers getting ready for his f… more
Date: March 24, 1961
Creator: Gumm, John
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.8238]

Description: Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "(photo of a man up front standing beside an elevated pipeline on the left. a piece of pipe on the ground at right, and more. Backside handwriting: "Tyra Lova New City Mngr, Konowa starting Dec 1, 1961" "Atoka Pipeline.")"
Date: November 24, 1961
Creator: Tapscott, George
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.8229]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Concrete Filings will support 60-inch Okatola water pipeline where it crosses the South Canadain River between Pontotoc and Siminole Counties. Big pipeline on supports in left spproach to river looks much smaller than close-up view in extreme right foreground, where 20-foot sections await placement and sealing."
Date: November 24, 1961
Creator: Tapscott, George
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.0427]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma City Times newspaper. Caption: "These coin collectors will mark 75 new parking spaces. The biting ack-ack sound of an airhammer pounding its way into concrete curbing rang like music in the ears of motorists this week. It signalled the installation of 75 additional parking places in the congested downtown area. The project, when completed may help ease the strain on short-tempered motorists who make up the parking-meter-hunting safari. … more
Date: March 24, 1961
Creator: Miller, Joe
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

Cow Feeding Lots and Flood Control-Benefits-Mill Creek

Description: Photograph of three UNIDENTIFED people pouring ensilage into feeding troughs via truck. Numerous cattle inhabit the feeding pens and in the background of photo. The ensilage was produced onsite thanks to four floodwater retaining structures protecting the owner's fields. The back of the photograph proclaims, "Flood Control-Benefits-Mill Creek. Cattle feed pens. Cattle being fed ensilage produced on irrigated land protected from overflow by 4 floodwater retarding structures on upper Mill Creek. … more
Date: April 24, 1961
Creator: Fry, Chester
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

A Change from Native Pasture

Description: Photograph of Double Creek Site 14. Land use changed from native pasture to tame-in the flood pool area. Native grasses were killed out in 1957 due to high water after shich was seeded with common bermudagrass.
Date: October 24, 1961
Creator: Bryan, Hugo
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society
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