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[Photograph 2012.201.B0376.0304]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Miss Fern Lowman, right, Southwestern State College commerce teacher and president of the Lambda chapter, explains the teacher recruitment program to Darlene Hale, left, freshman from Sentinel, and Henrietta Mann, Hammon freshman."
Date: September 28, 1951
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0052.0556]

Description: Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Loading body of George Henry Stocks into Clinton ambulance. Lloyd Matthews, Highway patrol, center, Gene Stanley, Left Lieut. Jack Rollins, HP Right, Accident happened at 8:10 a.m. Sat. Two miles west of Clinton on U.S. 66 Foreground is Stock`s 1941 automobile. Truck driven by Martin McGrath Watson, 48, Abelene, Tex."
Date: September 20, 1951
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

Cattle on Native Bluestem Pasture

Description: Graft left and Marshall Jordan, SCS technician, observing native bluestem pasture which Graft has brought back through periodic rest. This pasture was rested from Aug. 1, 1949 to Aug. 1, 1950, then grazed until Dec. 1, 1950 and rested again until May 1, 1951. Predominating grass is little bluestem. Graft's range is divided into three large pastures. "If I winter my cattle on one of the pastures," he says, "that pasture is not used during the following growing season. " He stocks his native gras… more
Date: August 21, 1951
Creator: Tomkins, Gordon
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Steers on Native Bluestem Pasture

Description: Photograph of steers on native bluestem pasture. This field was practically bare of grass in the mid 1930's and has been brought back through periodic rest. This pasture was rested from Aug. 1, 1949 to Aug. 1, 1950, then grazed until Dec. 1, 1950 and rested again until May 1, 1951. Predominating grass is little bluestem. Other grasses include big bluestem, sideoats grama, blue grama, indiangrass and switchgrass. 7RR High good range condition.
Date: August 21, 1951
Creator: Tomkins, Gordon
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Barnitz Creek Detention Success Story

Description: Photograph of Barnitz Creek bottomland farm which was protected from damage in the May 1951 flood by Barnitz Creek detention reservoirs Nos. 1 and 2. Crops are corn, cotton and alfalfa. Farm worked by Winfred Shepard.
Date: August 20, 1951
Creator: Tomkins, Gordon
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0053.0864]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Oklahoma City Times newspaper. Caption: "This semi-trailer refrigerated truck overturned and burned on SH 33 near Custer City Saturday, destroying both the truck and most of its cargo of eggs. Lost were 504 cases (15,120 dozen eggs). Salvaged were 99 cases, shown stacked in the foreground. The highway patrol estimated the damage at $10,000 to the truck and $10,000 in the destruction of the eggs. The driver, Paul M. Coffey, Tulsa, and Floyd Fletcher, Tulsa, ow… more
Date: August 13, 1951
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0904.0001]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Cpl. Albert Miller, 19, Clinton, brought home a souvenir from the Korean War, just not the type you would usually bargain for, as he has about five pieces of lead embedded in his body from machine gun fire near Seoul."
Date: July 12, 1951
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B1046.0296]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Dr. L. E. Peevy, head of the history department at Southwestern State college, has developed a reputaton as an exacting instructor who demands a full measure of returns from his classes."
Date: June 13, 1951
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0231.0647]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "While the school of watch repair at Southwestern State college is nationally recognized for its progressive methods of instruction, instructors and students take considerable pride in their collection of antiques"
Date: May 11, 1951
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B1194.0704]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Joy Daniel, Eldorado, left, and June Seright, Hollis, look over the new music hall nearing completion on the campus of Southwestern State College."
Date: April 6, 1951
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0411.0124]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Mrs. Luciel Williams, Custer county treasurer for the 1951 March o'Dimes campaign, receives the first contributions from Arthur Farrell, 9-year-old Clinton boy who is a victim of infantile paralysis."
Date: January 27, 1951
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0234.0505]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Two student ministers at Southwestern State college, Weatherford, John Combs, Cheyenne, left, and Albert Rockwell, Roosevelt, right, make a recording for a weekly radio feature."
Date: January 12, 1951
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society
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