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Healing/Healed Sheet Erosion on a Blackland Experiment Station Cotton Field

Description: Photograph of healing/healed sheet erosion on this cotton field located at the Blackland Experiment Station. The back of the photograph proclaims, "Sheet Erosion. After one rain, cross slope runoff on this down hill [sic], straight rowed field cut shallow gullies (4" deep) to the depth of bedded rows. Since then, cotton in the field has been cultivated once or twice and visual evidence of erosion has almost been obliterated. Damage to the field remains unaltered, however."
Date: June 1944
Creator: Lyle
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Contour Farming

Description: Photograph of strips of Hubam clover. This strip of Hubam clover was seeded in January, 1938 planted in Irving Clay loam soil, cultivated, 2% A slope, 25% to 75% of top soil removed. Camera: west end of Hubam strip looking east. Owner: J. M. Shenkir, Temple, Texas, Route 4. TX-100, 241.
Date: May 5, 1938
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Graphs, Charts and Other Forms of Data

Description: Photograph of soil conserving and soil building practices of winter cover crops [in the] increase [of] crop yields. Yields measured in pounds of seeds per acre and root rot as the percentage of plants dead by August 2. Year: 1943. Blackland Experiment Station, Temple, Texas.
Date: unknown
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Graphs, Charts and Other Forms of Data

Description: Photograph of a chart measuring the soil conserving practice of terracing [as it] increases crop production. Cotton yields measured in pounds per acre and corn measured in bushels per acre for years 1936 to 1939 and with the four years of each crop averaged. Blackland Experiment Station, Temple, Texas.
Date: unknown
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Graphs, Charts and Other Forms of Data

Description: Photograph of a chart of the soil conserving practice of controlled grazing [as it] improves [the] quality of meadow hay. Hay yields measured in tons per acre and weeds as the total percent of the hay, for the years 1940 to 1943, including average. Blackland Experiment Station, Temple, Texas.
Date: unknown
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Graphs, Charts and Other Forms of Data

Description: Photograph of a chart measuring the soil building practice of rotations, including hubam sweet clover [for] increases [in] crop production. Yields measured in bushels per acre. Covers years 1941 - 1943 and their averaging. Blackland Experiment Station, Temple, Texas.
Date: unknown
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Graphs, Charts and Other Forms of Data

Description: Photograph of a chart measuring the increased severity of erosion [as it] reduces crop yields. Yields of corn and oats measured in pounds per acre, a 5 year average from 1939 to 1943. Blackland Experiment Station, Temple, Texas.
Date: unknown
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Graphs, Charts and Other Forms of Data

Description: Photograph of a chart measuring how saving the soil saves plant food which is essential to crop production. Chart shows the annual soil loss measured in surface inches and the cost of replacing plant food elements (nitrogen, phosphorus and potassium) measured in dollars per acre, both for the years 1933 to 1938. Blackland Experiment Station, Temple, Texas.
Date: unknown
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Graphs, Charts and Other Forms of Data

Description: Photograph of a chart measuring the soil building practice of rotations, including hubam sweet clover [for] increases [in] crop production. Yields measured in bushels per acre. Covers years 1941 - 1943 and their averaging. Blackland Experiment Station, Temple, Texas.
Date: unknown
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B1404.0415]

Description: Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Maj. gen. Fred Daugherty, right, and Lt. col. Charles Wheeler, plot the 45th infantry Division's next action in map exercise Cloverleaf 5 at Fort Hood, Texas."
Date: March 18, 1961
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B1412.0484]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "A Lawton mother whose son claims he was mistreated while confined in the stockade at Ft. Hood, Tex., said Friday she plans to go the Washington, D.C. Sunday to protest the situation."
Date: April 22, 1971
Creator: Wilson, Joe
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B1209.0555]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "A hawk's eye view of the Thunderbird bovouac and training areas at North Fort Hood is given Roy Stewart by Lt. Col. Lee Guild, 45th aviation officer, in a Hiller H-23 helicopter."
Date: August 13, 1959
Creator: Mooney, Hank
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B1138.0188]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Shooting television film at the Thunderbird training camp at North Fort Hood is S / Sgt. Don Routh, 1308 NE 46, Oklahoma City, member of the 45th signal company. He is son of Col. and Mrs. Ross H. Routh."
Date: August 16, 1956
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B1126.0130]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "During a Fort Hood maneuver, Thunderbirds and other Army personnel studied pentomic and nuclear battlefield tactics as key staff sought solutions to map problems, as Lt. Col. Bruce Rey, OKC nurseryman, is doing here."
Date: March 12, 1959
Creator: United States. Army.
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B1249.0187]

Description: Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Commercial stagecoaches made by Glen C. Sloan at For Gibson can be delivered anywhere in the country by means of a special trailer. Coach shown her was delivered to a buyer near Temple Texas."
Date: 1959
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0425B.0071]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "After 32 years service form a gold bar to twin stars of a major general, Hal L. Muldrow, Norman, is resigning his post as commander of the 45th Infantry division September 1."
Date: August 10, 1960
Creator: Tapscott, George
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0916.0300]

Description: Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Sgt. Elmer J. Morriss, U. S. Army, Ringling, Okla., triple amputee recovering at hospital in Temple, Texas."
Date: October 30, 1945
Creator: U.S. Signal Corps
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0916.0322]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Sgt. Elmer Morriss, Oklahoma war hero, is shown here with his mother, Mrs. E. L. Morriss of Ringling, left; his wife, Velma Lee, and his father, E. L. Morriss, on a recent visit they made in McCloskey General Hospital in Temple, Texas."
Date: October 3, 1945
Creator: U.S. Signal Corps
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0916.0314]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Sgt. Elmer J. Morriss of Ringling, Okla., works diligently at McCloskey General Hospital, Temple, Texas, on an almost completed hand-tooled, hand-laced leather bag for his wife, Velma Lee. Sgt. Morriss lost both legs, his right arm, the index finger on his left hand, and the sight of his right eye in the Battle of the Bulge in Europe."
Date: October 30, 1945
Creator: U.S. Signal Corps
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society
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