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[Photograph 2012.201.B0144.0687]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Yards and fields near Rocky in Washita County look like they've just been dappled by a light snowfall, but the white stuff in question is fibrous, and its source an upwind cotton gin that has yielded some of its fodder to the gusty winter breeze."
Date: 1977
Creator: Cook, J. Don
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

Grass, Legume and Forb Cultivation

Description: Photograph of individual plants of Sorghum Almum, a new drought-resistant, warm-season, perennial, tall and luxuriant bunch grass under observation by the Soil Conservation Service [SCS]. The plant being shown by Hervie E. Skelley and son, Gomer, came from one seed planted 2 1/2 months previously (on June 15, 1956) with less than 3 inches of rainfall. Single plants have up to 53 stalks in this field. OK-374-2.
Date: August 29, 1956
Creator: Archer, Sellars G.
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0053.0266]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "THIS DERAILED FRISCO WHEAT TRAIN still stood three miles north of Rocky Wednesday morning after it left the tracks Tuesday due to a burned out journal box."
Date: June 14, 1960
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0053.0269]

Description: Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Nineteen wheat laden cars went off the Frisco railroad June 17, four miles south of Rocky, Oklahoma. They were part of a train headed for Enid, Oklahoma. No one was injured."
Date: June 17, 1960
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0225.0595]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "The Rainey school is one of Oklahoma's most unusual institutions. Rainey is a two-frame school building in Washita county, about six miles east of Rocky, the closest city."
Date: February 11, 1938
Creator: Kaho, C. J.
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society
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