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Leslie Harris' Terraced Land

Description: Photograph of view of part of Mr. Harris’ 280 acres of terraced land. The back of the photograph proclaims, “View of part of Mr. Harris’ 280 acres of terraced land. The strips of sorghum and wheat run from terrace to terrace. Vetch grew last year on the strips now in sorghum. Mr. Harris rotates the crops in strips from season to season. These are channel type terraces and they empty into an alfalfa waterway (running across picture in center). The sorghum will be combined leaving the stubble on … more
Date: October 9, 1950
Creator: Davis, David O.
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0941.0468]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Visiting Oklahoma Historical Society, Mr. and Mrs. Jacques Nellens, Knokke, Belgium, look at wagon used in the state land run in 1889."
Date: December 9, 1965
Creator: Traverse, Austin
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0231.0317]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Eighty-three years have passed since the first great Oklahoma land run in 1889, and the passage of time continues to mute first-hand memories of that thunderous, dust-swirling scramble for property and fresh hope."
Date: April 9, 1970
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B1001.0268]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "In a rush to get everything ready for Tuesday's Arts Festival opening, workmen Friday raise part of an 84-foot bronze bas relief of the Oklahoma Land Run of 1889. The copy of Laura Fraser's original plaster model goes in Civic Center Park."
Date: April 9, 1976
Creator: Klock, Roger
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

Grass, Legume and Forb Cultivation

Description: Photograph of a view of part of Mr. Leslie Harris’ 280 acres of terraced land. The strips of sorghum and wheat run from terrace to terrace. Vetch grew last year on the strips from season to season. These are channel type terraces and they empty into a an alfalfa waterway (running across the picture in the center). The sorghum will be combined leaving the stubble on the strips. See TX-47, 218 and 47, 219. TX-47-217.
Date: October 9, 1950
Creator: Davis, D. O.
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society
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