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[Photograph 2012.201.B1434.0200]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Bonneau Peters, right, president of the shreveport basball club in the Texas league, advises Dick Butler, president of the league, that Shreveport plans to continue as a member of the league despite the new law in Louisiana that bans interracial sports."
Date: 1956
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B1314.0452]

Description: Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Fancy flower arrangements are the specialty of the two Caesar sisters. Above, Mrs. Mary Caesar Trchta is putting together a birdcage centerpiece for sale in the greenhouse and flower shop operated by her husband, Joe, at 711 E. Hill."
Date: January 27, 1956
Creator: King, Cliff
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

Grass, Legume and Forb Cultivation

Description: Photograph of the Renner Research Station, Renner, Texas [now a part of Dallas, annexed in the 1970s]. B. D. Blakely, Head Agronomist, Washington D.C. and D. G. Craig, Southern Great Plains Agronomist, Fort Worth, Texas, in an oat field on the Renner Research Station. TX-307-2.
Date: March 6, 1956
Creator: McConnell, John
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Grass, Legume and Forb Cultivation

Description: Photograph of the seeding of native pasture. A group of southern Great Plains agronomists on a tour of the Renner Research Station, reviewing results of a seeding of native pasture of El Reno Sideoats Grama and King Ranch Bluestem. Cost of fertilizer, seed and planting was $30.00 per acre. This pasture was two-years old at the time of the photo. TX-306-8.
Date: March 6, 1956
Creator: McConnell, John
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Grass, Legume and Forb Cultivation

Description: Photograph of Photo of rice-grass rotation. Eighty acres of tall fescue grass in rotation with rice (4 years grass; 2 years rice). Twelve pounds of tall fescue seed and 200 pounds of 16-20-0 fertilizer were applied per acre by airplane in standing rice after last drainings in September of 1954. Rain and wet land caused severe rutting [i.e., when tires sink into wet soil causing trenches or furrows that displace soil and causes its possible compaction preventing roots in penetrating the soil] at… more
Date: April 4, 1956
Creator: McConnell, John
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B1434.0002]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Miss Velta Bowlware, native of Mustang and the first woman hired by Braniff International Airways, was honored in Dallas this week when she completed 25 years with the firm. ."
Date: 1956
Creator: Brainiff Airways
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.b1402.0326]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Mary Kay Wells, senior from Dumas, Texas, has been awarded a graduate assistantship at the University of Illinois, Champaign."
Date: 1956
Creator: Central State College
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0370.0219]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "The FBI arrested four men here in connection with the alleged theft of top-secret oil exploration maps that a government attorney says are "worth millions."
Date: 1956
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B1134.0235]

Description: Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Bobby C. Rogers U. S. Navy Mrs. Cyril Rogers, 1525 NW 33, Rogers is bound for duty overseas after a short stay stay at naval station in Brunswick, Ga."
Date: 1956
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

Farming Equipment and Methods

Description: Photograph of a fishworm. Printed description on back: "But the worm was that big! It turned out to be just one big long fishworm, 8 or 9 inches about the size of a pencil, for, of course, it is a TEXAS variety!"
Date: March 8, 1956
Creator: McConnell, John
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Grass, Legume and Forb Cultivation

Description: Photograph of King Ranch Bluestem grass. Printed description on back: "King Ranch [K. R.] bluestem planted in 1951 overseeded with vetch and fertilized with phosphate in 1952. The vetch was volunteered each year since this soil is in excellent physical condition due to this treatment. Moisture penetration after 3.3 inches of rain was 24 inches where this KR Bluestem was growing. on an acre just across the fence where the astrida has been growing for about 15 years, moisture penetration from thi… more
Date: March 8, 1956
Creator: McConnell, John
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B1310.0057]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "THOMSON TAKES TEXAS TITLE - Peter Thomson the British Open champion, wearing a Texas cowboy hat and circling the two winner's cups, holds his check for $14,000 which he won in a sudden death playoff in the $70,000 Texas International Open golf tournament Monday in Dallas."
Date: 1956
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

Soils, Soil Erosion, Soil Conservation & Crop Management

Description: Photograph of a group of men standing in a field, looking at a fishworm in a clod of soil. Printed description on back: "B.D. Blakly, Head Agronomist, Soil Conservation Service [SCS], Washington DC, found a fishwarm in a clod of soil. In facgt, he saw an end of a fishworm sticking out of this clod. It looked like a pretty big worm, but it just couldn't be that big!"
Date: March 8, 1956
Creator: McConnell, John
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Farming Equipment and Methods

Description: Photograph of strip cropping. Strip cropping on the W,H. Hair farm near Dublin, Texas. Two rows of Sudan grass in strips and 8 rows of crops on Soil Unit 12. TX-307-6.
Date: March 7, 1956
Creator: McConnell, John
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society
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