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Barnett Farm Corn Crop Success Due to Dam on Owl Creek Watershed

Description: Photograph of corn on Barnett farm on Owl Creek which was not flooded out because reservoir held water. Will average 40 bushels to acre. Spots will make more that that. Before dame was built, Barnett never got a crop off land. If he hadn't had the dam this year, he wouldn't have had any crop left, Barnett says. SCS Engineer Harry Maricle in picture.
Date: July 19, 1950
Creator: Putman, Jack
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

BASEMENT BOX 67.0127

Description: Photograph of a vehicle engulfed in smoke and flames. Caption: "Billy Bob Richardson, 18, Seminole truck driver, narrowly escaped death Wednesday when his truck caught fire and burned on SH 18 near Asher."
Date: July 19, 1950
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

Corn Grown on the Barnett Farm on Owl Creek

Description: Photograph of Harry Maricle, SCS Engineer, evaluates stalks of corn grown on the Barnett farm on Owl Creek, which was not flooded out because of the Owl Creek reservoir dam protected his land. The back of the photograph proclaims, "Corn on Barnett farm on Owl Creek which was not flooded out because reservoir held water. Will average 40 bushels to acre. Spots will make more than that. Before dam was built, Barnett never got a crop off land. If he hadn't had dam this year, he wouldn't have had an… more
Date: July 19, 1950
Creator: Putman, Jack
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Cotton on Leveridge Farm

Description: Photograph of an UNIDENTIFED man (Rual W. Leveridge) pointing to a field of cotton behind a UNIDENTIFED detention reservoir. The back of the photograph proclaims, "Cotton on Leveridge farm on Owl Creek behind detention reservoir. Owner is working to reclaim land from Johnsongrass and to do some leveling work. This land did not produce any crops before reservoir was built."
Date: July 19, 1950
Creator: Putman, Jack
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Cotton on Leveridge Farm

Description: Photograph of an UNIDENTIFED man (Rual W. Leveridge) pointing to a field of cotton behind a UNIDENTIFED detention reservoir. The back of the photograph proclaims, "Cotton on Leveridge farm on Owl Creek behind detention reservoir. Owner is working to reclaim land from Johnsongrass and to do some leveling work. This land did not produce any crops before reservoir was built."
Date: July 19, 1950
Creator: Putman, Jack
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Crop Behind Detention Reservoir

Description: Photograph of Cotton on Leveridge farm on Owl Creek behind detention reservoir. Owner is working to reclaim land from Johnson grass and to do some leveling work. This land did not produce any crops before reseroir was built.
Date: July 19, 1950
Creator: Putman, Jack
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B1083.0190]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Maj.Harry Dunton,2700 NW 44,Oklahoma City,and Brig.Gen.Francis J. Reichmann,124 NW 15,Oklahoma City,go over a problem on a field map."
Date: July 19, 1950
Creator: Kaho, C. J.
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B1164.0653]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "His helpers number "in the hundreds" he claims. But there's no list of members he will point to He's the only admitted communist showing. He's Alan Shaw, 507 N Western, Britton."
Date: July 19, 1950
Creator: Tapscott, George
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society
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