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[Photograph 2012.201.B1292.0791]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "DOUBLE CROSSING - The state corporation commission branded this crossing of Rock Island and Oklahoma Railway Co. Beltline tracks on May avenue as a traffic hazard, and Saturday called a hearing to find means of moving the tracks together so that an underpass or overpass may be built."
Date: July 25, 1936
Creator: Allred, G. R.
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

Contour Furrows in Pasture

Description: Photograph of contour furrows in pasture. Made with 2-row lister on right, alternating 42 inches and 17.5 feet apart; on left, 7 feet apart made with 3-row lister. Approximately 1.5 lb blue grama grass seed per acre seeded along furrows immediately after furrowing.
Date: July 25, 1936
Creator: McLean, B. C.
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Wind, Wind Erosion, Sand Storms and Dunes

Description: Photograph of sand accumulation around machinery and farm buildings. Note men on the cultivator which is almost completely covered by soil drift. Second line drift leading from barns is over 100 yds. long and five feet high, leading out into open field, a serious hazard. OK-44.
Date: July 25, 1936
Creator: McLean, B. C.
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Sand Accumulation Around Machinery and Farm Buildings

Description: Photograph of a UNIDENTIFED man sitting on a cultivator looking at sand accumulation around machinery and farm buildings. The back of the photograph proclaims, "Sand accumulation around machinery and farm buildings. Note man on cultivator, which is almost completely covered by soil drift. Second line drift leading from barns in over 100 yds. long and 5 ft. high, leading out into open field, a serious hazard."
Date: July 25, 1936
Creator: McLean
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society
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