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Spoils Banks on Todd Fugate's Property

Description: Photograph of spoils banks from land formally strip-mined in 1947 located on Todd Fugate's property. The back of the photograph proclaims, "Spoils banks from land strip mined in 1947. Fugate intended to smooth spoils banks and sod bermudagrass for pasture, but gave up after spending $105.00 on dozer work and got only the one spoils bank leveled which is shown in photo. He sowed Korean lespedeza and is waiting for more weathering of shale before sodding Bermuda. What he has in spoils banks is mo… more
Date: November 17, 1955
Creator: Moreland
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Graded Border Irrigation System

Description: Photograph of graded Border Irrigation System. (4300 Acre). Water is pumped from Verdigris River at N. E. corner of 400 acre field. Water is shown running from feeder ditch through border to field tabs. Field to left of electric fence is in rye and vetch and has had one irrigation. An additional 300 acres will be leveled smoothed ditched and bordered and put into irrigation in 1956. The system designed provides drainage as well as irrigation.
Date: November 17, 1955
Creator: Hurd, Moreland
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Land Clearance, Cultivation & Brush and Weed Control

Description: Photograph of a squirrel nest in a black locust tree which was planted on a spoils bank in 1947. Volunteer plants include silver bluestem grass, weeds, cottonwood and willow trees. OK-189-9.
Date: November 15, 1955
Creator: Hurd & Moreland
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Grass, Legume and Forb Cultivation

Description: Photograph of 160 acres of Class VIII land in spoils banks, which have been seeded in sweet clover, Korean lespedeza and mixed clovers by airplane. Seeding done by Frank Podpechan, Manager, Sequoyah Coal Company. OK-192-1.
Date: November 16, 1955
Creator: Hurd & Moreland
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Graded Border Irrigation System

Description: Photograph of a graded boreder irrigation system of 400 acres. Water is pumped from the Verdigris River at H.E. corner of 400 acre field. Water is shown running from feeder ditch through border to field tabs. Field to left of electric fence is in rye and vetch and has had one irrigation. An additional 300 acres will be leveled smoothed ditched and bordered and put into irrgation in 1956. The system provides drainage as well as irrigation.
Date: November 17, 1955
Creator: Hurd and Moreland
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Will Rogers Turnpike

Description: Photograph of workers laying Portland Cement Concrete paving at the Claremore, OK Interchange, mile marker 13, on the Will Rogers Turnpike, November 27, 1956.
Date: November 27, 1956
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

Will Rogers Memorial

Description: Photograph of instructions for the dedication of the Will Rogers Memorial Plaque presented by the Cherokee Nation, Claremore, OK, November 4, 1946.
Date: November 4, 1946
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

Will Rogers Memorial Plaque

Description: Photograph of the Will Rogers Memorial Plaque presented by the Cherokee Nation, Claremore, OK, November 4, 1946.
Date: November 4, 1946
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0991.0547]

Description: Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "While Oklahoma Military Academy cadets stand at attention."
Date: November 4, 1969
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

Indian Trading Post

Description: Photograph of the Indian Trading Post in Catoosa, OK on Right of Way property, on US 66 November 9, 1955.
Date: November 9, 1955
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B1432.0589]

Description: Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Bill Bolen, Foyil farmer-candidate for Sen. state dist. -R"
Date: November 25, 1978
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B1432.0591]

Description: Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Bill Bolen-Claremore electrician, cand. for state rep. Dist. #9"
Date: November 13, 1956
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B1432.0590]

Description: Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Bill Bolen, Foyle farmer-candidate for Sen. state dist. -R, also a cand. in 1980"
Date: November 25, 1978
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B1103.0546]

Description: Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Memorial-Will Rogers-claremore, okla."
Date: November 23, 1938
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B1103.0465]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "The Rogers family ranch house was preserved from the flooding of the Verdigris River Valley and moved a mile away to this scenic hill."
Date: November 22, 1992
Creator: Argo, Jim
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B1103.0548]

Description: Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Memorial-Will Rogers-claremore, okla."
Date: November 4, 1938
Creator: Kaho, C. J.
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B1103.0475]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Miniature of the ranch house where Will was born, in 1879"
Date: November 5, 1946
Creator: Brown, Robin
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B1103.0549]

Description: Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Memorial-Will Rogers-claremore, okla."
Date: November 4, 1938
Creator: Oklahoma Publishing Company
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B1103.0523]

Description: Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Will Rogers Hotel--Claremore, Okla."
Date: November 14, 1932
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B1249.0256]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "David Smalley, who was 17 on September 29, may be the youngest police dispatcher in the state."
Date: November 25, 1966
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B1249.0645]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Dave L. Smith"
Date: November 25, 1948
Creator: McLaughlin, Al
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0940.0604]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Equipment and building materials set rusting in a storage yard at the Black Fox nuclear project."
Date: November 15, 1981
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0927.0142]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Coal is loaded onto a barge for transport down the Arkansas River Navigation System. The 137-mile Oklahoma channel was to be the pot of gold at the end of a manmade rainbow, but it hasn't quite turned out that way."
Date: November 30, 1979
Creator: Argo, Jim
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0153.0540]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "FLYING TOUR of Thunderbirds training in the field Sunday was made by Brig. Gen. Fred Daugherty, new commanding general of the 45th division."
Date: November 21, 1960
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society
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