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[BASEMENT BOX 67.0372]

Description: A daylight photograph showing the site of a Payne County, Oklahoma, farm house destroyed by a grass fire. Only charred debris, including a refrigerator and a pile of stone rubble, remained of the structure. Caption: "Remains of a deserted farm house destroyed Wednesday afternoon by a 1,700-acre grass fire 12 miles east of Stillwater are shown here."
Date: February 16, 1961
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

Completed Dirtwork and Fencing Rush Creek Watershed

Description: Photograph of dirt work and fencing which has been completed before lake has any water in it except in the borrow pit. County Commissioner Alva Tims contributed part of the cost of the road and also cooperated by giving permission to change section line road.
Date: February 16, 1961
Creator: Leonard, C. M.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Control of Shinnery

Description: Photograph of shinnery sprayed with 1 lb 2-4-5-T in 1958 and 1959. Deferred in summer 1958, 1959 and 1960. Grazed in winter 1960-1961.
Date: February 7, 1961
Creator: Engleman, Jack
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Inspecting a New Waterway

Description: Photograph of Bob Deevers, opr. , inspecting a waterway that was constructed and sodded to Bermuda grass in 1960. Terraces were constructed after wheat harvest in 1960 to outlet into this waterway.
Date: February 1, 1961
Creator: Hamill, Dan
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

King Ranch Bluestem Competing with Other Grasses

Description: Photograph of eleven year old King Ranch Blue Stem plant competing with Switch grass and Little Bluestem and Sand Bluestem in a planting on eroded Woodward soil. There is some volunteering of K. R. nearby. K. R. at left center, Switch grass at right center. Follow-up to OK-904-11.
Date: February 7, 1961
Creator: Engleman, Jack
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0051.1550]

Description: Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "One life was claimed Monday night in an auto accident at NW 36 and May.Here a wrecker driver prepares to tow away the car driven by State Rep. Bill Harper that struck another broadside in the intersection."
Date: February 21, 1961
Creator: Peterson, Dick
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0052.0493]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Oklahoma City Times newspaper. Caption: "Glasses in a pool of blood were mute testimony to dangerous driving conditions int he Oklahoma City area Monday. These glasses were found in a car involved in the 2-car collision in Midwest City."
Date: February 6, 1961
Creator: Tapscott, George
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0053.0637]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Oklahoma City Times newspaper. Caption: "Trailer, right sliced into truck early Monday, but neither driver was injured. Two Oklahoma City men escaped Monday in a freak accident just east of the intersection of NE 23 and Sooner Rd."
Date: February 13, 1961
Creator: Sarchet, Corb
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0053.0640]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Oklahoma City Times newspaper. Caption: "While 200 spectators looked on, an Oklahoma city driver walked the thin ice surface of Belle Isle Lake Thursday-then suddenly broke the crust and disappeared into the freezing water."
Date: February 9, 1961
Creator: Park, Joe
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0053.0653]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Efforts to retrieve a truckload of molasses from Belle Isle Lake, east of Penn Square, failed Wednesday night and operations were abandoned until Thursday."
Date: February 8, 1961
Creator: Albright, Bob
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0053.0654]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Oklahoma City Times newspaper. Caption: "A truckload of molasses was ditched into Belle Isle Lake, right photo above, early Wednesday when air brakes failed."
Date: February 8, 1961
Creator: Tapscott, George
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society
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