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[BASEMENT BOX 67.0247]

Description: A daylight photograph showing men using water hoses to douse the smoldering remains of the Cotton Compress Company warehouse in Chickasha, Grady County, Oklahoma, destroyed by a wind-driven fire. Black wax pencil crop marks are visible on the image. Caption: "A 45-mile-an-hour wind Sunday fanned a blaze from papers under a loading dock into the Cotton Compress Co. warehouse, destroying about $500,000 worth of cotton."
Date: March 26, 1950
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

Farming Equipment and Methods

Description: Photograph of the seeding of a mixture of native grass (100 acres) with one of the special drills constructed under the specifications of Soil Conservation District supervisors of the Central Washita River Valley of Oklahoma to plant small seeds of native and adapted grasses. A local iron works made the drills from second-hand grain drill frames, automobile transmissions, cotton planter boxes, discs and press wheels obtained by supervisors of the Grady Co., Stephens Co., South Caddo Co., and th… more
Date: March 16, 1946
Creator: Gamble, M. D.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Woodland Wildlife Planting

Description: Photograph of W.C. Stewart's planting of 3 acres of Black locusts with multiflora Rose around edges in Feb. 1955. Claude Leonard in photo standing by Multiflora Rose. OK-1340-7.
Date: May 22, 1961
Creator: Trompler, Bill
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Contour Farming

Description: Photograph of contour rows of coton in an unterraced field. Notice the reverse curve in the rows. OK-5342.
Date: July 22, 1936
Creator: Hufnagle, Richard W.
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Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Farming Equipment and Methods

Description: Photograph of a homemade two-row Bermuda grass sprigger in operation planting Midland Bermuda grass roots. This planter was built on a three-point hook-up cultivator that opens the furrow, covers the roots, and packs the ground afterwards. The Bermuda grass roots were brought into the county by the Soil Conservation Service Program working wih the District. OK-225-11.
Date: April 9, 1956
Creator: Martin, J. V.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Farming Equipment and Methods

Description: Photograph of one of 22 combination clean and grassy seeding drills for use in the Washita Flood Control program. Frames were constructed and machines assembled by Chickasha Iron Works. Standing beside the seeder is Mr. A.J. Kennedy, foreman of the job for Iron Works. OK-9299.
Date: March 24, 1947
Creator: Gamble, M. D.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Water Conservation; Water Erosion; Flooding and Prevention

Description: Photograph six of six of Chickasha Lake. An inundation study by the Agricultural Experiment Station-Soil and Water Conservation Bureau [AES-SWC], in Chickasha, Oklahoma, under the direction of Edd D. Rhoades. Basin no. 6, following one flooding period of twenty days (May 4 - 24, 1964). See OK-2334-3, dated 07-08-64, for list of grasses. Severe killing of big blestem, knotroot, bristlegrass, smoothbrome, western wheatgrass, read canary grass, Virginia wildry, and Kentucky fescue occured below a … more
Date: July 8, 1964
Creator: Collins, F. W.
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Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Water Conservation; Water Erosion; Flooding and Prevention

Description: Photograph five of six of Chickasha Lake. An inundation study by the Agricultural Experiment Station-Soil and Water Conservation Bureau [AES-SWC], in Chickasha, Oklahoma, under the direction of Edd D. Rhoades. Basin no. 5, following 2 periods of flooding for 20 days each (March 23 - April 12 and May 5 - 25 , 1964). See OK-2134-3, dated 07/08/64 for the list of grasses [i.e., prior photo--2019.061.B2.03454; photo 1 of 6]. Very little damage occured during the March 23 - April 12 period. Severe k… more
Date: July 8, 1964
Creator: Collins, F. W.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Water Conservation; Water Erosion; Flooding and Prevention

Description: Photograph four of six of Chickasha Lake. An inundation study by the Agricultural Experiment Station-Soil and Water Conservation Bureau [AES-SWC], in Chickasha, Oklahoma, under the direction of Edd D. Rhoades. Basin no. 4, following 2 periods of flooding for 10 days each (May 4 - 14 and June 9 - 19, 1964). See OK-2134-3, dated 07/08/64 for the list of grasses [i.e., photo--2019.061.B2.03454; photo 1 of 6]. Moderate suppression of growth with partial killing of a few plants below the 4.0 depth d… more
Date: July 8, 1964
Creator: Collins, F. W.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Trees, Tree Farms, Woodlands, and Forests

Description: Photograph of a harvest of black lumber posts from a 9-year-old planting from Soil Unit 12 RP. The post planting was 15 acres in size and produced more than 1700 posts per acre the first harvest. A 4-year old Catalpa planting shows in the background. C.F. Stuard, left; Wilbur Trompler, Farm Forester, right. OK-58-2.
Date: March 1955
Creator: Martin, J. V.
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Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Contour Farming

Description: Photograph of terrace construction. Striking off the back slopes of a channel type terrace built entirely with a bulldozer. See OK-190-12 for the first pass made with the bulldozer in starting the construction. OK-190-10.
Date: November 15, 1955
Creator: Martin, J. V.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Contour Farming

Description: Photograph of a bulldozer striking out the last pass on a channel-type terrace constructed entirely with bulldozer equipment. See OK-190-10 for the completed terraces and OK-190-12 for the starting of the terrace. The terrace spills directly into a meadow strip shaped and seeded to King Ranch [KR] Bluestem in March, 1952. OK-190-11.
Date: November 15, 1955
Creator: Martin, J. V.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society
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