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[Photograph 2012.201.B0234.0369]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Life at the state fair is not all one long round of entertainment for the 624 Future Farmers staying at the F F a dormitory, even though they're at the show for eight full days."
Date: September 28, 1955
Creator: Lucas, Jim
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0294.0193]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "The President of the Oklahoma Speech Association, Miss Laurine Hager, Tulsa, was in for a pleasant surprise Monday afternoon."
Date: January 15, 1955
Creator: Killian, Thomas F.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0242.0601]

Description: Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "This is not a Trojan horse's neck but the blower end of a mechanical cotton picker, view with other equipment Tuesday by visitors at the fifth annual field day at the Oklahoma Cotton research Foundation station, operated in conjunction with the Experiment station of Oklahoma A & M college, near Chickasha."
Date: April 12, 1955
Creator: Killian, Thomas F.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B1418.0145]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Here are principals in the Grady county probe by a grand jury which Wednesday indicted Justice of Peace Calvin Strother of Chickasha for embezzlement."
Date: July 20, 1955
Creator: King, Cliff
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B1342.0209]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "The third generation of von Tungelns is competing for ribbons at the Oklahoma State Fair in the livestock division."
Date: September 27, 1955
Creator: Daily Oklahoman
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B1418.0144]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "District Judge L.A. Woods, above, overrules County Attorney Wilson Smithen's attempts to block an inquiry into his fitness to participate in a Chickasha grand jury probe."
Date: July 20, 1955
Creator: King, Cliff
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B1267.0470]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Calvin Strother, justice of peace and legal advisor to a group of citizens whose petition resulted in a county grand jury, Wednesday was indicted by that jury on two counts of embezzlement."
Date: July 20, 1955
Creator: King, Cliff
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B1267.0469]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Preparing to bottle it out in court at Chickasha Saturday are Justice of Peace Calvin Strother, left, and Grady County Attorney Wilson Smithen, right."
Date: July 20, 1955
Creator: King, Cliff
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

Improved Range

Description: Photograph of a heavily timbered area that was in poor range condition. Early June 1955 tow pounds of Kuron (propionic acid) per acre was applied by aero plane. All vegetative growth of shrubs and trees was controlled on 90 % of the shrubs and trees. A definitive percentage of tree kill could not be determined at this time but a tremendous growth of primarily little bluestem can be observed even directly underneath the trees. An excellent seed crop was produced by this area which was completely… more
Date: November 4, 1955
Creator: Martin, J. Vernon
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Gully Control

Description: Photograph of part of head cut or overall on large gully, Sec. 17, T9N, R8W. Overfall is 73 feet deep, 270 feet wide, and advanced at an average rate of 70 feet per year from 1937 to 1955. This produced 31. 7 acre-feet of sediment annually.
Date: July 13, 1955
Creator: Sparwasser, W. A.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Black Locust Posts

Description: Photograph of J. J. Burton, left, discussing the harvest of black locust posts with his tenant, Guy Busser, Jr. , right. 1800 posts per acre were harvested from a 4-acre planting on Soil Unit 9H RP that was inaccessable for farming operations. The plantin was 7 years old at the time of harvest.
Date: 1955-03-XX
Creator: Martin, J. Vernon
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Cotton Irrigation

Description: Photograph of flooding a cotton crop in the Washita River bottom, Soil Unit 8Hm AL RP. This field of 22 acres was level bordered in March 1955, and at the time the photo was taken, estimates were that this cotton was already able to produce 1.5 bales per acre. Wheat on this same field in 1952 made a complete failure, coton in 1953 and 1954 was also a complete failure. Source of water, Washita River.
Date: July 1955
Creator: Martin, J. Vernon
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Trees, Tree Farms, Woodlands, and Forests

Description: Photograph of a harvest of black lumber posts from a 9-year-old planting from Soil Unit 12 RP. The post planting was 15 acres in size and produced more than 1700 posts per acre the first harvest. A 4-year old Catalpa planting shows in the background. C.F. Stuard, left; Wilbur Trompler, Farm Forester, right. OK-58-2.
Date: March 1955
Creator: Martin, J. V.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Contour Farming

Description: Photograph of terrace construction. Striking off the back slopes of a channel type terrace built entirely with a bulldozer. See OK-190-12 for the first pass made with the bulldozer in starting the construction. OK-190-10.
Date: November 15, 1955
Creator: Martin, J. V.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Contour Farming

Description: Photograph of a bulldozer striking out the last pass on a channel-type terrace constructed entirely with bulldozer equipment. See OK-190-10 for the completed terraces and OK-190-12 for the starting of the terrace. The terrace spills directly into a meadow strip shaped and seeded to King Ranch [KR] Bluestem in March, 1952. OK-190-11.
Date: November 15, 1955
Creator: Martin, J. V.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Combining Native Bluestem Grass

Description: Photograph of Howard Nix combining native bluestem mixture on the farm of Alva Tims. Proper range management and rotation grazing permitted the harvest of 1500 pounds of bluestem mixture from approximately 35 acres.
Date: November 4, 1955
Creator: Martin, J. Vernon
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Examination of Bluestem Harvest

Description: Photograph of Claud Leonard (left), Work Unit Conservationist, Rush Springs, Okla. And Howard Nix combine operator, examine some of the native bluestem mixture harvested from this area. 1500 pounds of seed were harvested from approximately 35 acres.
Date: November 4, 1955
Creator: Martin, J. Vernon
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society
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