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BASEMENT BOX 67.0101

Description: Photograph taken during daylight of the smoldering shell of what was once Shawnee High School. Caption: "Only the doorway facing U. S. 270 remained in one piece Saturday morning after a $500,000 fire swept the Shawnee High School, destroying the main part of the building."
Date: March 27, 1948
Creator: Cobb, Richard
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

Cattle Grazing Alfalfa in Border-Irrigated Field

Description: Photograph of a herd of cattle grazing alfalfa in border-irrigated field. The back of the photograph proclaims, "Cattle on alfalfa in border irrigated field. Before soil conservation district was organized, this field was in sunflowers – just paid a little more than taxes – now 2 days grazing raised butter fat 200 lbs. The 250 acres of alfalfa has been grazed, raised 20,000 bales of hay this summer plus a seed crop. See Tex-44-788 and Tex-44-489."
Date: October 21, 1948
Creator: Davis, David O.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

UNIDENTIFED Man Constructing a Diversion Terrace

Description: Photograph of an UNIDENTIFED man on a tractor constructing a diversion terrace. The back of the photograph proclaims, “Diversion terrace, 1900 ft. long, being constructed. Will divert 40 acres of water from 100 acres below. The 40 acres is a steep, short slope with damaging runoff."
Date: October 21, 1948
Creator: Davis, David O.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

[2012.201.B0317.0331]

Description: Photograph is of a man standing dressed in a baseball uniform with three bats leaning against his leg and arm resting on a cart. Caption: "Below Grant Dunlap awaits his turn in the bating cage."
Date: March 22, 1948
Creator: East, Bob
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[2012.201.B0363.0084]

Description: Photograph is of two men dressed in baseball uniforms. One is holding a bat and another is holding a baseball mitt. They are talking to each other. Caption: "John Grodzicki- left, Hal Epps -right."
Date: May 9, 1948
Creator: East, Bob
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

LU Project Little Bluestem Seed Cleaner

Description: Photograph of Troy Garner, LU Project daily laborer, cleaning little bluestem seeds using a squirrel –cage type seed cleaner designed & built by Tom Elder, Soil Conservation Service technician. The back of the photograph proclaims, “Squirrel-cage type seed cleaner being used to clean little bluestem seed Troy Garner, LU daily laborer, operating machine. Cleaner, designed & built by Soil Conservation service technician Tom Elder, will handle 1000 lbs. per hour.”
Date: September 29, 1948
Creator: Elder, Tom
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

LU Project Little Bluestem Seed Cleaner

Description: Photograph of Troy Garner, LU Project daily laborer, cleaning little bluestem seeds using a squirrel –cage type seed cleaner designed & built by Tom Elder, Soil Conservation Service technician. The back of the photograph proclaims, "Squirrel-cage type seed cleaner being used to clean little bluestem seed Troy Garner, LU daily laborer, operating machine. Cleaner, designed & built by Soil Conservation service technician Tom Elder, will handle 1000 lbs. per hour."
Date: September 29, 1948
Creator: Elder, Tom
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

LU Tract 30 Little Bluestem Harvesting

Description: Photograph of Durwood Calvert and five UNIDENTIFED workers using John Deere combines to harvest little bluestem. The photograph does not specify who or where Durwood Calvert is on the photograph. The back of the photograph proclaims, "Harvesting little bluestem. Durwood Calvert doing harvesting."
Date: September 28, 1948
Creator: Elder, Tom
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

LU Tract 30 Little Bluestem Harvesting

Description: Photograph of Durwood Calvert and five UNIDENTIFED workers using John Deere combines to harvest little bluestem. The photograph does not specify who or where Durwood Calvert is on the photograph. The back of the photograph proclaims, "Harvesting little bluestem. Durwood Calvert doing harvesting."
Date: September 28, 1948
Creator: Elder, Tom
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Mr. and Mrs. Alvin Butler Harvesting Sand Lovegrass on LU Tract 532

Description: Photograph of Mr. & Mrs. Alvin Butler using a combine harvesting sand lovegrass. People shown in photo go as followed from left to right: Mr. Alvin Butler and Mrs. Alvin Butler. The back of the photograph proclaims, "Harvesting sand lovegrass. Tract reseeded in 1947. Mr. & Mrs. Alvin Butler, Reydon, operating combine."
Date: September 30, 1948
Creator: Elder, Tom
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Mr. and Mrs. Alvin Butler Harvesting Sand Lovegrass on LU Tract 532

Description: Photograph of Mr. & Mrs. Alvin Butler using a combine harvesting sand lovegrass. People shown in photo go as followed from left to right: Mr. Alvin Butler and Mrs. Alvin Butler. The back of the photograph proclaims, "Harvesting sand lovegrass. Tract reseeded in 1947. Mr. & Mrs. Alvin Butler, Reydon, operating combine."
Date: September 30, 1948
Creator: Elder, Tom
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Cleaning Sideoats

Description: Photograph of Charlie Kilpatrick, Johnnie Blevins, Jack Padgett, Monsieur Moore, Ralf Knight, and Bill Padgett cleaning sideoats grama. People shown in photo go as followed from left to right: 1. Charlie Kilpatrick, Soil Conservation Service technician, 2. Johnnie Blevins, 3. Jack Padgett, 4. Monsieur Moore, rancher, 5. Ralph Knight, Soil Conservation Service technician, 6. Bill Padgett. The back of the photograph proclaims, "Cleaning sideoats grama grass. Scalper made by Ralph O. Knight and Ch… more
Date: 1948~
Creator: Farmer, Phil
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Cleaning Sideoats

Description: Photograph of Charlie Kilpatrick, Johnnie Blevins, Jack Padgett, Monsieur Moore, Ralf Knight, and Bill Padgett cleaning sideoats grama. People shown in photo go as followed from left to right: 1. Charlie Kilpatrick, Soil Conservation Service technician, 2. Johnnie Blevins, 3. Jack Padgett, 4. Monsieur Moore, rancher, 5. Ralph Knight, Soil Conservation Service technician, 6. Bill Padgett. The back of the photograph proclaims, "Cleaning sideoats grama grass. Scalper made by Ralph O. Knight and Ch… more
Date: 1948~
Creator: Farmer, Phil
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Native Grass Seed Scalper

Description: Photograph of Charlie Kilpatrick and Ralph O. Knight, Soil Conservation Service Technicians, standing next to a native grass seed scalper they built. People shown in photo go as followed from left to right: 1. Charlie Kilpatrick, 2. Ralph O. Knight. The back of the photograph proclaims, "Native grass seed scalper built by Charlie Kilpatrick and Ralph O. Knight, Soil Conservation Service technicians."
Date: 1948~
Creator: Farmer, Phil
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Grass, Legume and Forb Cultivation

Description: Photograph of a panoramic view of a 640 acre tract. A land utilization [L.U.] project where 206 acres were seeded in June 1948 to Martin Milo for stubble in which to seed side oats grama grass in the spring of 1949. Once cultivated, this land suffered moderate wind erosion during the wind-blown dust bowl years of the 1930s. TX-44, 635.
Date: August 23, 1948
Creator: Fox, Lester
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Grass, Legume and Forb Cultivation

Description: Photograph of Karl Goebbel inspects his White Dutch clover as cattle graze this improved pasture. This is Crowley silt loam, lighter and more porous than the soil of the Joe Zambreaher [?] from Abbeville, LA. Each farm is typical at its class of soil. In addition to some fertilizer treatment given Zambreaher's improved pastures. Lime was added here becasue the soil was deficient in calcium and magnesium, the limestone used being half calcium and half magnesium, as explained by Rufus K. Walker, … more
Date: April 27, 1948
Creator: Fox, Lester
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society
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