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[Photograph 2012.201.B0226.0721]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Approximately a million bushels of wheat have been dumped on the streets of Perryton, Texas within the last week much of it by Oklahoma panhandle farmers."
Date: July 12, 1979
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0226.0703]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Lack of storage space forced grain dealers to create mountains of milo maize southwest of Perryton, Texas."
Date: February 2, 1970
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0238.0463]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "to Miss Carolyn cooper, Wheatheart of 1958, will be chosen in Perrytown, Texas, August 21 and 22 during the city's celebration of its birth."
Date: unknown
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0092.0582]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Perryton's biggest civic tinge lately was the opening of a new home for the &B Motor Co., Inc."
Date: 1950
Creator: Killian, Thomas F.
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B1017.0498]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Perryton residential districts are clean and attractive."
Date: January 11, 1950
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B1017.0500]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "The only highschool - and the only gradeschool save one in Ochiltree county is this up-to-date building in Perryton."
Date: January 10, 1950
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B1017.0499]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "This is looking south down Perryton's Main street, which also is U. S. 83 - southward to Canadian, Shamrock and Childress, with connections to Oklahoma City; northward across the Oklahoma Panhandle to Liberal, Kan."
Date: January 10, 1950
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B1134.0364]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Seven beauties will compete August 20 in the "Wheatheart of the nation beauty pagent. Marya Rogers."
Date: August 2, 1966
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

Farming Equipment and Methods

Description: Photograph of stubble mulching. Stubble mulching volunteer wheat on a contour-terraced field. Four, 36 inch Dumpster sweeps out 3 inches beneath the surface. The mulcher belongs to the Lipscomb County Wind Erosion District. Max Blau is operating the tractor. TX-42, 078.
Date: May 19, 1945
Creator: Jenkins, Elvin W.
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Grass, Legume and Forb Cultivation

Description: Photograph of a grass-protected waterway. This waterway as protected by western wheatgrass takes water for more than 3 miles along a highway ditch and additional water through a culvert from a bend across the highway [?]. This grass is three-years old. This waterway must be able to carry large amounts of water and therefore be protected against erosion. Yet it must not catch silt because it must remain wide and flat. Note the playa lake [i.e., a dry lake] in the background. TX-47, 235.
Date: October 10, 1950
Creator: Davis, D. O.
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society
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