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Livestock

Description: Photograph showing some of the 175 hives of bees that are pollinating Madrid and Hubam Sweetclover on this 850 acre farm. There are 435 acres of Madrid of which 60 are to be harvested for seed. Bee pollonation increases seed production. TX-45-668.
Date: July 2, 1949
Creator: Fox, Lester
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Abandoned Cars at Rush Creek #1

Description: Photograph of Rush Creek Channel taken by G. Brune. An unknown individual or group used this portion of Rush Creek as a dumping ground with several abandoned cars spanning the floor of the creek.
Date: unknown
Creator: Brune, G.
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Old Wooden Bridge to be Replaced by Fill and Drop Inlet/Elk City Project

Description: Photograph of an old wooden bridge to be replaced by fill and drop inlet two miles south and 2 miles west of Elk City, Oklahoma. The back of the photograph proclaims, “2 miles south, 2 west of Elk City. County cooperative highway erosion control project. Old wood bridge is to be replaced by a fill and drop inlet. To be followed with later pictures.”
Date: April 1, 1938
Creator: Hufnagle, Richard W.
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Watersheds

Description: Photograph of view of the old channel in the Bear-Hybarger watershed. This was complated a number of years agao by local people. Pumps were installed to pump water out of the fields into this channel. It was being blocked by main channel. It was being blocked by main channel siltation, but now ties in with the newly improved main channel and its functioning well without the use of pumps. OK-4321
Date: July 23, 1971
Creator: Branstead, Rob
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Old Squaw Creek

Description: Photograph of Old Squaw Creek. This area used to be a good country road until Squaw Creek started using it for a channel. OK-3005-6.
Date: March 1968
Creator: Murray, Hubert J.
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Wilderness Areas

Description: Photograph of an ideal “openland wildlife” habitat. This is an area of Konawa soils, 3 to 8 present slopes, severly eroded. Shrubs and grasses provide both food and cover. OK-2852-3.
Date: August 1967
Creator: Bogard, Vinson
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Lead-Zinc Mining--Wind Erosion

Description: Photograph of the Eagle-Pichers Mine area, at Picher, Oklahoma. Showing slimes ponds and chat piles. North view from roadway showing well-established vagetation on active slimes pond dam in Commerce, Oklahoma.. The principal grass is Bermuda. Chat pile in the background. OK-2769-7.
Date: July 6, 1967
Creator: Bennett, K. C.
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Washita County Windbreak

Description: Photograph of a windbreak, which is in the background of this photograph. Furthermore, numerous but UNIDENTIFED plants grow in the foreground. The original photograph sleeve proclaims, "Windbreaks – The uneven skyline of the windbreak reflects the soil depth in which the trees grew. The permeable soil depths range from two feet in the stretches of shorter trees to five feet under the taller trees. This windbreak is located in Washita County, Oklahoma, a short distance North of Dill City, Oklaho… more
Date: September 25, 1949
Creator: Postlethwaite, Hermann
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Peanuts on Vanoss Loam

Description: Photograph of row irrigated peanuts growing in Vanoss loam. The original photograph sleeve proclaims, "Peanuts growing on Vanoss loam, 0 to 1 percent slopes. Peanuts is the major cash crop of Bryan County and Vanoss is one of the most productive soil. These peanuts have been row irrigated."
Date: unknown
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Winters Creek Streambank Erosion

Description: Photograph of the streambank erosion of Winters Creek, a tributary of the Washita River. The back of the photograph proclaims, "Streambank erosion of Winters Creek (tributary of Washita). Owner estimates that 5 acres of Class I land destroyed by recent spring rains."
Date: May 1947
Creator: Gamble, M. D.
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Washita County Waterway Control near Cordell

Description: Photograph of a waterway formerly covered by brush and trees. The back of the photograph proclaims, "Other views of the same waterway showing area formerly covered by brush and trees as well as area where dams had been formerly placed across gully in an unsuccessful attempt to control the gully."
Date: January 5, 1953
Creator: Archer, S. G.
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Washita County Waterway Control Near Cordell

Description: Photograph of a waterway formerly covered by brush and trees. The back of the photograph proclaims, "Other views of the same waterway showing area formerly covered by brush and trees as well as area where dams had been formerly placed across gully in an unsuccessful attempt to control the gully."
Date: January 5, 1953
Creator: Archer, S. G.
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society
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