18 Matching Results

Search Results

Advanced search parameters have been applied.
in subjects: "Sod House"  
Results: 1 - 18

Remains of Old Sod House

Description: Photograph of remains of old sod house built by early settlers of Northwestern Oklahoma. The homes were built of blocks cut from the good grass sod they found in this area. Some of the walls are still standing and are in fair condition after 100 years. This type of sod no longer exists. It has been destroyed by plowing for farming, over-grazing and erosion.
Date: July 9, 1955
Creator: McConnell, John
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Remains of Old Sod House

Description: Photograph of remains of old sod house built by early settlers of Northwestern Oklahoma. The homes were built of blocks cut from the good grass sod they found in this area. Some of the walls are still standing and are in fair condition after 100 years. This type of sod no longer exists. It has been destroyed by plowing for farming, over-grazing and erosion.
Date: July 9, 1955
Creator: McConnell, John
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B1192.0201]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Oklahoma's Restored Sod house is furnished in its original manner. Plastered walls were an uncommon luxury for such structures."
Date: 1976
Creator: Oklahoma Tourism
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B1192.0202]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Near Aline and Cleo Springs in the northwest stands a humbler monument to a unique chapter in Oklahoma's settlement. The sod house preserved there by the Oklahoma Historical Society is the only one of its kind built by a homesteader that is still standing and unaltered."
Date: 1976
Creator: Oklahoma Tourism
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society
Back to Top of Screen