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Wetumka Camp

Description: Photograph of an UNIDENTIFIED man looking at cultivated tree plantings, planted in 1938, in the Muskogee District, Wetumka Camp, Wetumka, OK.
Date: September 23, 1939
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B1215.0181]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Scenes like this were common in Capron Saturday after a tornado the business section. Here workmen are salvaging what they can from a grocery store."
Date: April 15, 1939
Creator: Cauthen, George
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B1215.0182]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "All that was left standing of Capron's city hall after a tonado the city early Saturday was the vault. This general view shows the vault in the foreground."
Date: April 15, 1939
Creator: Cauthen, George
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B1215.0168]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Here is a general view of the business section of capron which was destroyed by a tornado early Saturday. So mixed was the debris that an ouutsider was unable totell where one building once had begun and another ended."
Date: April 15, 1938
Creator: Cauthen, George
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0285.0604]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "These three women, among 1,000 attending a regional conference of women democrats at the Biltmore hotel Thursday, are leaders in the Young Democrats of America."
Date: April 13, 1938
Creator: Kaho, C. J.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0285.0608]

Description: Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Miss Ocie Heady of Oklahoma City, vice-president of the Young Democratic Clubs of America, wears a dress patterned after that worn by Emily Donelson, wife of President Jackson's secretary when she was official hostess at the White House."
Date: 1938
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

Soil Conservation Camp

Description: Photograph of a panoramic view of the Soil Conservation Camp in Wetumka, Oklahoma. The picture is to be used illustrating a special safety report for the personnel division. The office of the technical staff is the first building on the left while the barracks are located in the background. OK-5867.
Date: November 2, 1937
Creator: Slack, Jim
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Soil Conservation Camp

Description: Photograph of a group of technical staff at theAfrican American Soil Conservation Camp at Wetumka, Oklahoma. This campnever had never lost time owing to accidents during its existence. Picture to be used in safety report. OK-5865.
Date: November 2, 1937
Creator: Slack, Jim
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Three UNIDENTIFED Men Picking Cotton on a Field Planted on the Contour/Stigler Project

Description: Photograph of three UNIDENTIFED men picking cotton on a field planted on the contour. The back of the photograph proclaims, "Negro cotton pickers working in a cotton field that has been planted on the contour. Due to the ideal weather conditions and the planting on the contour, this field far exceeded the yields of previous years."
Date: November 2, 1937
Creator: Slack, James N.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Civilian Conservation Corps

Description: Photograph of the Soil Conservation Services Camp [SCS] in Wetumka, Oklahoma. All the trucks at the Wetumka SCS camp are equipped with steps made out of the side boards for loading and unloading. This picture was taken to illustrate the safety report telling of the various safety devices put into effect at the camp. OK-5872.
Date: November 1, 1937
Creator: Slack, Jim
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Farming Equipment and Methods

Description: Photograph of enrolles at a Watumka SCS camp reading a poster put up on the camp grounds in the interest of safety. It has been brought out that this type of reminder (that of placing them singly instead of in groups) helps promote safety to a greater degree. OK-5868.
Date: November 1, 1937
Creator: Slack, Jim
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Oil and Gasoline Safety

Description: Photograph of a gasoline pump shed of the Wetumka African-American Soil Conservation Service Camp. The picture documents the safety measures taken by this particular camp for a special report. Note the various safety precautions that have been taken to make the storage of oil and gasoline safe: 1. Sand barrel with lid for fighting fires. 2. Shovel painted red hanging on the wall. 3. Breather pipe for gasoline tank extending through the roof. 4. Fire extinguisher available at all times 5. Warnin… more
Date: November 1, 1937
Creator: Slack, Jim
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Dan Yahola Estate Drilling Sudan Grass on the Contour and Terraces/ Muskogee Project

Description: Photograph of two UNIDENTIFIED CCC workers on the Dan Yahola Estate drilling Sudan grass on the contour and terraces with horse drawn equipment. The back of the photograph proclaims, "CCC boys drilling Sudan grass on the contour and on the terraces with small drill for hay and erosion resistant crop."
Date: May 6, 1937
Creator: Slack, Jim
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0285.0605]

Description: Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Mrs. Heady, Holdenville and Oklahoma City; 1937 vice president of Young Democratic clubs of America; national committeewoman, Oklahoma League of Young Democrats, etc."
Date: 1937
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society
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