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BASEMENT BOX 67.0542

Description: Crowd around daytime fire of home in Pitcher, Oklahoma. Photograph taken for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Last remnants of the Picher fire which claimed five lives Saturday are put out by volunteer firemen from six neighboring towns."
Date: February 10, 1963
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

Lead-Zinc Mining--Evaluation of Plantings

Description: Photograph of the area around the Eagle-Pichers Mine, Picher, Oklahoma. Slimes Pond Evaluation of plantings in Commerce, Oklahoma. View facing north in central portion of Field no. 6. Black Locust trees planted on 02-03-1967 without fertilizer nor mulch. OK-2878-26.
Date: July 31, 1967
Creator: Bennett, K. C.
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B1054.0292]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "George Walker, Picher Water superintendent, looks sadly at a trickle of water being carried into the community's one million gallon reservoir."
Date: February 6, 1963
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B1020.0115]

Description: Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "All but a few of a dozen business buildings and 25 homes still remain the restricted area in Picher. Two towering mine derrick appear at left."
Date: April 23, 1952
Creator: Sparlin, Orrick
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

Picher, 1918

Description: Insurance map sheet showing an area of Picher in Ottawa County, Oklahoma, including geographic features, buildings, and details related to risk assessment for fire insurance.
Date: June 1918
Creator: Springfield F & M Insurance Co.
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

Picher, 1918

Description: Insurance map sheet showing an area of Picher in Ottawa County, Oklahoma, including geographic features, buildings, and details related to risk assessment for fire insurance.
Date: June 1918
Creator: Springfield F & M Insurance Co.
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

Picher, 1916

Description: Insurance map sheet showing an area of Picher in Ottawa County, Oklahoma, including geographic features, buildings, and details related to risk assessment for fire insurance.
Date: July 1916
Creator: Oklahoma Inspection Bureau
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

Picher, 1918

Description: Insurance map sheet showing an area of Picher in Ottawa County, Oklahoma, including geographic features, buildings, and details related to risk assessment for fire insurance.
Date: June 1918
Creator: Springfield F & M Insurance Co.
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

Picher, 1918

Description: Insurance map sheet showing an area of Picher in Ottawa County, Oklahoma, including geographic features, buildings, and details related to risk assessment for fire insurance.
Date: June 1918
Creator: Springfield F & M Insurance Co.
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
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
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

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
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
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Lead-Zinc Mining

Description: Photograph of a chat pile, the rock waste remains after lead and zinc have been extracted from hard rock, during the grinding and flotation system. Note the erosion of the pile. This material covers some 5,000 acres in Ottawa County. Wind and water move this finely ground rock to adjacent areas. OK-2769-11.
Date: May 24, 1967
Creator: Bennett, K. C.
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Lead-Zinc Mining--Evaluation of Plantings

Description: Photograph of the area around the Eagle-Pichers Mine, with slimes pond evaluation of plantings in Picher, Oklahoma. View facing west in Field no. 2, series 9, haygrazer planted on 05-12-1967 unmulched. 2 check rows without fertilizers, 2 rows with 200 pounds of 10-20-16 fertilizer, 2 rows with 400 pounds of 10-20-10 with 50% nitrogen top dressed on the eastern half. Raymond Magnass holds the pole upright between rows 3 & 4--top dressed on 06-24-1967. OK-2879-20.
Date: July 31, 1967
Creator: Bennett, K. C.
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Lead-Zinc Mining--Evaluation of Plantings

Description: Photograph of the area around the Eagle-Pichers Mine, with slimes pond evaluation of plantings in Picher, Oklahoma. View facing north in field no. 3, near the center of the field. Raymond Magness holds the rod by the sycamore tree planted on 02-03-1967. No ferilizer used, but prairie hay mulch used. OK-2879-16.
Date: July 31, 1967
Creator: Bennett, K. C.
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society
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