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Train Trestle Improvement Big John Creek

Description: Photograph of (L to R): Richard H. DeHaven, Trainmaster, Atchinson, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway Co., and Bobby Davis, SCS, Project Engineer; discussing flood prevention program on the Washita River Project. Background shows trestle to be widened as part of the Big John Creek channel improvement work in the Kickapoo Sandy watershed project.
Date: December 13, 1967
Creator: Croom, Dan F.
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Irrigating Alfalfa

Description: Photograph of Arnold Davis, left, and his brother Orvis checking their stand of alfalfa on their farm along Little Beaver Creek in Grady County. The meadow averages a 200-bale annual yield.
Date: December 18, 1968
Creator: Croom, Dan F.
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Irrigation

Description: Photograph of the Davis brothers, Arnold and Oris, who have cleared over 300 acres of brush on their farms. Brush rakes on crawler tractors are commonly used in clearing operations.
Date: December 18, 1968
Creator: Croom, Dan F.
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Train Trestle Improvement Big John Creek

Description: Photograph of L. to R.: B.A. Harrison, Representitive of local conservancy district; Bobby Davis, SCS, Project Engineer; and Richard H. DeHaven, Trainmaster, Atchinson, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway Co., discussing flood prevention program on the Washita River Project. Background shows trestle to be widened as part of the Big John Creek channel improvement work in the Kickapoo Sandy watershed project.
Date: December 13, 1967
Creator: Croom, Dan F.
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Youth Range Camp

Description: Photograph of Chester Tracy pointing out to ranch hands Keith Seeliger, James Sprowls, and Billy Fisher the advantages of rotating grazing and bermuda grass.
Date: August 24, 1967
Creator: Croom, Dan F.
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Irrigation

Description: Photograph of Oris Davis, center, his brother, Arnold (right) and their Uncle John checking irrigation equipment on one of their farms.
Date: December 18, 1968
Creator: Croom, Dan F.
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Train Trestle Improvement Big John Creek

Description: Photograph of (L to R): E.A. Harrison, representative of local concervancy district and R.H. Heinlen, Division Engineer, Atchinson, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway Co., and Bobby Davis, SCS, Project Engineer; discussing trestel enlargement work on the Big John Creek channel improvement work in the Kickapoo Sandy watershed project.
Date: December 13, 1967
Creator: Croom, Dan F.
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Washita River Flood Protection Program Kickapoo Sandy

Description: Photograph of E. A. Harrison, representative of the local conservancy district; Bobby Davis, SCS Project Engineer; and P. E. Traylor, Davis Agent, Santa Fe Railway Co. , discussing flood prevention program on the Washita River Project. Background show trestle to be widened as part of the Big John Creek channel improvement work inthe Kickapoo Sandy Watershed project.
Date: December 13, 1967
Creator: Croom, Dan F.
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Suburban Development

Description: Photograph of suburban shopping center issustrates intensive use of land resource. Such developments increase water runoff and results in flooding of areas downstream.
Date: July 18, 1969
Creator: Croom, Dan F.
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Agronomy, Crop of Guar

Description: Photograph of Lloyd Kopecek, chairman of the board of supervisors of the Greer County SWCD and Goodyear outstanding cooperator awardee, Wayne Clark, esamine a crop of guar on the Clark farm. Guar is a major cash and soil improving crop in the Greer County SWCD.
Date: September 18, 1968
Creator: Croom, Dan F.
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Great Plains Conservation Program

Description: Photograph of GPCP participant Vernon Breckenridge checking one-year growth of midland bermuda. Breckenridge has sprigged 20 acres of bermuda grass for each of the last three years.
Date: September 12, 1968
Creator: Croom, Dan F.
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Watersheds

Description: Photograph of Soil Conservation Service (SCS) employees and Mrs. Elsie Bates at a meeting of contractors, suppliers, equipment dealers and SCS people. The theme of the meeting "Quality Inspection in Watershed Construction Work."
Date: October 31, 1967
Creator: Croom, Dan F.
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Watersheds

Description: Photograph of a Santa Fe passanger train making its last un over Big John Creek's trestle, while workmen prepare to widen the trestle as a part of the Kickapoo Sandy watershed project. OK-2955-12.
Date: December 13, 1967
Creator: Croom, Dan F.
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Water Conservation; Water Erosion; Flooding and Prevention

Description: Photograph of showing from L to R: E. A. Harrison, representative of local conservancy district; Bobby Davis, Soil Conservation Service [SCS], Project Engineer; and Richard H De Haven, trainmaster, Atchison Topeka and Santa Fe Railway Co., discussing flood prevention program on the Washita River project. Background shows trestle to be widened as a part of the Big John creek channel improvement work in the Kickapoo Sandy watershed project. OK-2955-7.
Date: December 13, 1967
Creator: Croom, Dan F.
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

DEI Operations

Description: Photograph of producing a sepia copy of the general plan of a reservoir on a blueline reproduction machine. Shawnee DEI Office. OK-3263-10.
Date: October 30, 1968
Creator: Croom, Dan F.
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Lockheed California Property Resource Planning

Description: Photograph of Jerry Mathews, Soil Conservationist, and C. D. Hamit, conservation technician, survey pond dam on Lockheed California property north of McAlester. People shown in photo go as followed from left to right: 1. C. D. Hamit, Conservation Technician, 2. Jerry Mathews, Soil Conservationist. The back of the photograph proclaims, "Soil conservationist Jerry Mathews (R) and conservation technician C. D. Hamit survey pond dam on Lockheed California property north of McAlester, Oklahoma."
Date: November 13, 1969
Creator: Croom, Dan F.
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society
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