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[Photograph 2012.201.B0052.0569]

Description: Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Lieut. F. A. Mussen, Clinton highway patrolman, above, inspects the ruins of the house trailer after Thursday morning`s highway catastrophe 1 1/2 miles west of Hydro on U. S. 66. Both vehicles were headed east when they collided."
Date: August 6, 1953
Creator: Tapscott, George
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0052.0568]

Description: Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "The floor, Foreground above, and superstructure of a house trailer pulled by an Arizona car were separated by the force of the collision with the east-bound bus. Both the car and bus ran off into a canyon, but the two sections of the trailer stayed on the roadside."
Date: August 6, 1953
Creator: Tapscott, George
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0924.0522]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Canton's Most Valuable Citizen is Houston Edsel, left, who is being awarded a plaque by C. Roy Shaw, of the Bank of Canton. The bank conducted a survey to determine the city's most outstanding citizen. Center is Tom S. Myers, First National Bank and Trust Co., of OKC, who was speaker at the presentation dinner in Canton."
Date: February 6, 1956
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

Towns-Watonga Events

Description: "watching races at Watonga on 8/5/1909 at the Watonga Fair." "This race course was east of Watonga on the North side of the highway. County Fairs were held on this tract too." Post card was sent by Minnie Alice Prickett to her sister.
Date: August 6, 1909
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

Cows by a watering hole

Description: Black and white image of 7 cows standing by a watering hole with writing handwritten "Don't let the (illegible word get these cows. I look for you home soon, sure we have it about settled. All well, I saw mother last night. She looked same. Come on back, Ed"
Date: July 6, 1916
Creator: Lookabaugh, H. C.
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

Blackjack Spraying

Description: Photograph of Ralph Leonard, County Administrator of FHA, observing the kill and deterioration of woody growth following chemical treatment which was supplied in 1956 and 1957.
Date: June 6, 1958
Creator: Judge, Earl R.
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Weaping Lovegrass Harvest

Description: Photograph of Bennie Tice harvesting weaping lovegrass on a 90 acre planting. This planting is 2 years old and was fertilized in 1958 followed by beng pastured most of that summer. In addition to being pastured, 2 cuttings of hay was removed which produced approximately 50 bales per acre. Fertilizer was applied in 1959 at the rate of 50 lbs. of nitrogen per acre. The 1959 seed harvest was 10,400 lbs of seed from the 50 acres. Since the seed harvest, a hay crop has been removed and approximately… more
Date: July 6, 1959
Creator: Judge, Earl R.
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Grass, Legume and Forb Cultivation

Description: Photograph of native grass. Lee Awtrey observing the growth of native grass following the treatment of blackjack pasture with 2-4-5-T herbicide by aerial spraying. Pasture was sprayed in 1956 and 1957 and not grazed during growing season. OK-703-9.
Date: July 6, 1958
Creator: Judge, Earl R.
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Grass, Legume and Forb Cultivation

Description: Photograph of native grass. Lee Awtrey, Work Unit Conservationist {WUC] Elza Bullen of the Central North Canadian Soil Conservation District [SCD], and Ralph Leonard, County Administrator of the Federal Housing Administration [FHA], observing the growth of the native grass in pasture that had been chemically treated to kill blackjack growth. OK-703-10.
Date: July 6, 1958
Creator: Judge, Earl R.
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society
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