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[Photograph 2012.201.B1166.0436]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Haward Carleton, now living east of Perkins, Okla., who was in the U.S. forest service when the first shelterbelt plantings were made in 1935. Here he is shown with the first tree planted in the p[roject, an Austrian pine on the H. E. Curtis farm in the Lake Creek community of Greer county. The tree was only two feet tall when planted. It is 20 feet now"
Date: July 3, 1956
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Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B1166.0426]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "John Wild's an oldtimer in the Lake Creek section, who gave easments on his land for some of the very first shelterbelt plantings in 1935. Many of the trees now are more than 40 feet tall and serve to protect his crop land from wind erosion."
Date: July 3, 1956
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Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society
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