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[Photograph 2012.201.B0302.0126]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "This crappie didn't set any records for size but it was the biggest fish ever caught by Mrs. W. W. "Red" Hunter of Checotah."
Date: April 25, 1966
Creator: Traverse, Austin
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

Erosion Control

Description: Photograph of a large alkali spot and gullies in a field that has been abandoned for five years. The original cover was good blue stem grass with a heavy sod and was broken out for cultivation in 1909. OK-5616.
Date: April 22, 1937
Creator: Hufnagle, Richard W.
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Pasture Planting of Ungrazed Vetch Seeded on Bermuda

Description: Photograph of an UNIDENTIFED person showing a pasture planting of untouched vetch seeded on Bermuda. The back of the photograph proclaims, "Ungrazed vetch seeded on Bermuda. Early growth and soil building qualities make it an excellent legume of winter pasture mixtures. SCS pasture development program started in 1956 on this farm."
Date: April 11, 1957
Creator: Willingham, Ledger
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

UNIDENTIFED Farmer Contour Ridging Field/Muskogee Project/Checotah Camp

Description: Photograph of an UNIDENTIFIED farmer with horse drawn equipment constructing contour ridges on 60 acres of land, which is being retired from cultivation. The back of the photograph proclaims, "Farmer constructing contour ridges on 60 acres of land which is being retired from cultivation. This is to be put to Bermuda grass and used for permanent pasture. The ridge are being built with three rounds of long winged Kelly plow."
Date: April 22, 1937
Creator: Hufnagle, Richard W.
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society
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