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Wetumka Camp

Description: Photograph of an UNIDENTIFIED man looking at cultivated tree plantings, planted in 1938, in the Muskogee District, Wetumka Camp, Wetumka, OK.
Date: September 23, 1939
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0293B.0356]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Since the first day of February Company L, 179 infantry, service battery, has been occupying this new brick armory at Holdenville, built with help of $59,545.42 WPA funds."
Date: 1937
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Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B1215.0182]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "All that was left standing of Capron's city hall after a tonado the city early Saturday was the vault. This general view shows the vault in the foreground."
Date: April 15, 1939
Creator: Cauthen, George
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B1215.0168]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Here is a general view of the business section of capron which was destroyed by a tornado early Saturday. So mixed was the debris that an ouutsider was unable totell where one building once had begun and another ended."
Date: April 15, 1938
Creator: Cauthen, George
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B1215.0181]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Scenes like this were common in Capron Saturday after a tornado the business section. Here workmen are salvaging what they can from a grocery store."
Date: April 15, 1939
Creator: Cauthen, George
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

Little Harlem - CCC - SCS Camp

Description: Photograph of Little Harlem, Civilian Conservation Corps 1817 and Soil Conservation Service Camp OK 27. The photo shows the decorative masonry pillars and gate with the sign and the camp itself in the background which was established for African Americans.
Date: July 22, 1936
Creator: Hufnagle, Richard W.
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Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

Oil and Gasoline Safety

Description: Photograph of a gasoline pump shed of the Wetumka African-American Soil Conservation Service Camp. The picture documents the safety measures taken by this particular camp for a special report. Note the various safety precautions that have been taken to make the storage of oil and gasoline safe: 1. Sand barrel with lid for fighting fires. 2. Shovel painted red hanging on the wall. 3. Breather pipe for gasoline tank extending through the roof. 4. Fire extinguisher available at all times 5. Warnin… more
Date: November 1, 1937
Creator: Slack, Jim
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Erosian Control

Description: Photograph of the T.J. David farm. Vegetated seven foot drop, two to one slope in lower end of terrace outlet channel. Channel shown in OKLA 5330. Loose rock and sod construction with wire holding sod in place until it becomes well-established. Bermuda sod used.OK-5328.
Date: July 22, 1936
Creator: Hufnagle, Richard W.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Farming Equipment and Methods

Description: Photograph of a double drop masonry structure placed at the lower end of terrace outlet channel. Structure is built so that it provides a bridge in the farm driveway. Otherwise, it would have been necessary to build the driveway through the outlet channel. OK-5334.
Date: July 22, 1936
Creator: Hufnagle, Richard W.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Sheet And Gully Erosion Caused By Uncontrolled Run-Off

Description: Photograph of sheet and gully erosion caused by uncontrolled run-off on an unprotected cultivated field. The back of the photograph proclaims, "Sheet and gully erosion caused by uncontrolled run-off on unprotected cultivated field. Rows have been run across the slope in an attempt to prevent this drainage but runoff "jumped" the furrows causing cross-cutting. Contour cultivation and perhaps terraces will be required to control erosion here."
Date: March 1936
Creator: Slack, Jim
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society
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