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[Photograph 2012.201.B0416.0192]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "A claim for 205,000 will be presented to the city council Tuesday in behalf of a man who claims he was severely injured at the Oklahoma City Jail"
Date: August 5, 1973
Creator: Argo, Jim
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

Lead-Zinc Mining

Description: Photograph of the growth of Cottonwood trees in field six, south to north. Plantings made in 1967. Slimes Pond, Eagle-Pichers Mine, Picher, Oklahoma. OK-3194-8.
Date: September 5, 1968
Creator: Ball, Lemuel
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Lead-Zinc Mining

Description: Photograph of the growth of black locust trees in field six, south to north. Plantings made in February, 1967. Slimes Pond, Eagle-Pichers Mine, Picher, Oklahoma. OK-3194-7.
Date: September 5, 1968
Creator: Ball, Lemuel
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Farming Equipment and Methods

Description: Photograph of terraces. Constructing terraces with two, three bottom plows. This picture shows completed terraces as the 16 round was being made. This terrace is approximately 1000 feet long. It checked out 1.2 settled, height of ridge cross section of channel is 16 sq. ft. Ridge is 20 ft. from channel to toe on back side. OK-745-12.
Date: September 5, 1958
Creator: Chance, R. J.
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Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Farming Equipment and Methods

Description: Photograph of conservation crop rotation. Kochia weed and salt grass on salt area where it is very difficult to get crops started. The problem is this—getting the crops started. Volunteer kochia weed serves as a priority treatment to get a cover on the land. At certain stages cattle graze readily and it supplies a large amount of organic material when plowed down in a seed-bed preparation. OK-745-2.
Date: September 5, 1958
Creator: Chance, R. J.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Inspecting Crops

Description: Photograph depicts three dignitaries on an inspection tour of the Altus -Lugert Irrigation District. Inspecting maize on the J. A. Henry farm (cotton in foregroud) are President of the Altus-Lugert Irrigation District Joe B. Zinn, Governor of Oklahoma Roy J. Turner, and United States Secretary of the Interior J. A. Krug.
Date: September 5, 1947
Creator: Finch, F. S.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Museum of the Western Prairie

Secretary of the Interior Inspecting Irrigation

Description: Caption says, "5-AL-786. Project Dedication. Looking across irrigation ditch at the J. A. Henry farm on the inspection tour. From left to right: Joe B. Zinn, President of the Lugert-Altus Irrigation District; Secretary J. A. Krug, Gov. Roy J. Turner of Oklahoma."
Date: September 5, 1947
Creator: Finch, F. S.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Museum of the Western Prairie

Grass, Legume and Forb Cultivation

Description: Photograph of Soil Conservation Service [SCS] technician John Bailey checks the seed heads of the wheat in this irrigated 60-acre field. Good tall growth of the wheat was attributed to conditioning of the soil with alfalfa for six years. Wiggins is to change from flood irrigation to level border. SCS Engineers designed the irrigation system. III HP 2. OK-10, 769.
Date: July 5, 1953
Creator: Fox, Lester
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Grass, Legume and Forb Cultivation

Description: Photograph of Austin Sisson, renter, shown with Soil Conservation Service [SCS] technician, Bodie Wilson, in a wheat field fertilized with 150 pounds superphosphate fertilizer per acre. OK-9907.
Date: April 5, 1949
Creator: Gardner, G. C.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Soil and Moisture Conservation

Description: Caption says, "5-AL-1112. Soil and Moisture Conservation Program, W. C. Austin Project. General view of Diversion Terrace No. 2, which will spread water which runs off adjacent farm land so as to prevent erosion. Altus Reservation in distance."
Date: January 5, 1949
Creator: George, P. W.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Museum of the Western Prairie

Lead-Zinc Mining

Description: Photograph of growth of giant reed (arundo donax) from sod, from the south side of field five. Plantings made in March, 1967. Slimes Pond, Eagle-Pichers Mine, Picher, Oklahoma. OK-3194-10.
Date: September 5, 1968
Creator: Hill, Earnest
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Lead-Zinc Mining

Description: Photograph of the growth of Weeping Love Grass in the north end of field one and two, growing on drift area. Broadcast needed in March, 1967. Slimes Pond, Eagle-Pichers Mine, Picher, Oklahoma.OK-3194-15.
Date: September 5, 1968
Creator: Hill, Earnest
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Lead-Zinc Mining

Description: Photograph of the growth of Plume grass in field five, south to north. Sod plantings made in March 1967. Slimes Pond, Eagle-Pichers Mine, Picher, Oklahoma. OK-3194-9.
Date: September 5, 1968
Creator: Hill, Earnest
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Lead-Zinc Mining

Description: Photograph of a sign on Eagles-Picher Slimes Pond planting near Cardin, Oklahoma. View from the south side of fields five and six. OK-3194-6.
Date: September 5, 1968
Creator: Hill, Earnest
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Lead-Zinc Mining

Description: Photograph of growth of Kentucky 31 fescue in field two. Fescues seeded in the fall of 1967. Slimes Pond, Eagle-Pichers Mine, Picher, Oklahoma. OK-3194-16.
Date: September 5, 1968
Creator: Hill, Earnest
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Water Conservation; Water Erosion; Flooding and Prevention

Description: Photograph of a view of a broken dam from the downstream side. A six inch rain in one night caused the dam to overtop its entire length and finally break. Notice the huge pieces of concrete from the core wall. As facing the wall, they were carried down by water. A large bridge washed through this break. This dam and resevoir, which cost $350,000, silted in 48% in nine years and was soon to be abandoned because its storage capacity was reduced too much for it to be relied upon for the city water… more
Date: May 5, 1936
Creator: Hufnagle, Richard W.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Lonnie E. Blair's Jersey Cow Herd

Description: Photograph of part of the Blair's sixty-five Jersey cows grazing on improved pasture. The back of the photograph proclaims, "Fine Jersey stock grazing on improved pasture that is mowed regularly for weed control. The Blair's, who have a herd of about 65 cows, are milking 34."
Date: September 5, 1944
Creator: Jenkins, E. W.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Lonnie E. Blair's Jersey Cow Herd

Description: Photograph of part of the Blair's sixty-five Jersey cows grazing on improved pasture. The back of the photograph proclaims, "Milk cows grazing improved pasture that is regularly mowed for weed control. There are about 65 head of stock in the Blair herd, 34 are being milked."
Date: September 5, 1944
Creator: Jenkins, E. W.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society
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