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[Photograph 2012.201.B0152.0344]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Surveying the situation a workman trudges along in front of the new $3 million Kiamichi Dam on Little River in McCurtain Country."
Date: August 27, 1970
Creator: Heaton, Dave
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B1385.0207]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "DOUBLE PLAY is scored by Dierks Division of Weyerhaeuser Co. at Wright City in southeastern Oklahoma, where unfinished lumber serves as makeshift flagpole and railroad crossing sign post."
Date: August 27, 1970
Creator: Heaton, Dave
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B1020.0495]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Nelly Pierce has one of the most popular attractions in the southeastern Oklahoma town of Tom: "Nellie's Tom Cafe."
Date: February 27, 1987
Creator: McDaniel, David
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Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

Forestry Training

Description: Photograph of Smithville, Okla. Vocational Agriculture class with instructor examining pine tree that should be removed from the forest because it is defective. Small log or pulpwood will be cut from defective trees of this type. A tract of about 80 acres, owned by Story-McKee-Wilson Lumber Company, is set aside as school forest where the Voc. Agri. class study and apply proper forestry practices. Selective cutting has been carried out on 20 acres in the 1955 and 1956 compartment. The high scho… more
Date: November 27, 1956
Creator: McConnell, John
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Forestry Training

Description: Photograph of Glen Scott, Vocational Agriculture student, girdling cull hard wood tree in pine stand. J. C. Brown and Tom Stickler checking girdle to be certain it is wide enough to kill the tree. These boys are studying forestry in relation to soil conservation training. Work and training is being carried on in the school forest. The forest is divided into several compartments to allow study of all phases of forestry.
Date: November 27, 1956
Creator: McConnell, John
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Trees, Tree Farms, Woodlands, and Forests

Description: Photograph of charter member of the Board of Supervisors of the Valliant Soil Conservation District [SCD], William E. Clarkson. Mr. Clarkson pruned all the young pine on his ranch in the fall of 1959 and spring of 1960. It is estimated if all this pine were in one block it would be about 40 acres. Clarkson has shifted from row crops to cattle raising. His overall plan is to shift to tree farming. OK-969-9.
Date: May 27, 1960
Creator: Bryan, Hugo
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Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Land Conservation, Management and Utilization

Description: Photograph of an automatic lumber sorter in operation at a saw mill. This sorter conveys and drops lumber in piles according to size and grade. Lumber is sawed at a mill in the forest and hauled to a finishing mil in town. As the lumber is unloaded, it is fed into this sorter which moves it and piles it in the proper place. The lumber is fed into the sorter by two men, thus conserving much time and labor. OK-413-9.
Date: November 27, 1956
Creator: McConnell, John
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society
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