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[Photograph 2012.201.B1020.0115]

Description: Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "All but a few of a dozen business buildings and 25 homes still remain the restricted area in Picher. Two towering mine derrick appear at left."
Date: April 23, 1952
Creator: Sparlin, Orrick
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0901.0169]

Description: Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company.
Date: July 23, 1952
Creator: Sparlin, Orrick
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B1376.0551]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Proving that good things come in small towns, residents of Miami, okla., are displaying their art treasures in an exhibition labeled, "The Art Miamians Own," November 10 through December 7 in the N.E.O. A&M college art gallery."
Date: November 23, 1952
Creator: Sparlin, Orrick
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0317.0250]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "A silver service and crystal, used by the Pershing P-T-A of Miami, is presented to the Miami junior-senior high school home economics departments."
Date: May 23, 1960
Creator: Sparlin, Orrick
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0375.0048]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Miami, Okla. - Mrs. LaVerne Longenbaugh, who came to Oklahoma mor than 50 years ago in a wagon train, celebrated her 96th birthday Sunday in her home."
Date: May 23, 1960
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

Lead-Zinc Mining--Evaluation of Plantings

Description: Photograph of the area around the Eagle-Pichers Mine, Picher, Oklahoma. Slimes Pond Evaluation of plantings in Commerce, Oklahoma. View facing north-north central portion of planting area (Field no. 2). Cover crop plantings made and to be planted are to determine whether cover can be grown for eventual parennial vegetation plantings. Field borders are prairie hay mulched (3 tons per acre) and anchored with tandem discs. The tallest vegetation row is rye planted on 09-29-1966 and fertilized with… more
Date: May 23, 1967
Creator: Ball, Lemuel
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Lead-Zinc Mining--Evaluation of Plantings

Description: Photograph of the area around the Eagle-Pichers Mine, Picher, Oklahoma. Slimes Pond Evaluation of plantings in Commerce, Oklahoma. View facing north (Field no. 2). Five rows of rye planted in late September 1966 to determine possibility of growing cover for use in establishing perennial vegetation. The first row from the north was fertilized with 400 pounds of 10-20-10 fertilizer at seeding time (09-29-1966) with 50 pounds of nitrogen top dressed on 03-16-1967. The second row was fertilized at … more
Date: May 23, 1967
Creator: Ball, Lemuel
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Lead-Zinc Mining--Waste Removal

Description: Photograph of the area around the Eagle-Pichers Mine, Picher, Oklahoma. Slimes Pond Evaluation of plantings in Commerce, Oklahoma, showing an active slime pond. The fine ground silica is being discharged in a water solution from a ten-inch diameter pipe. These large pools, generally 100 to 160 acres in size, are diked and used for discharging the fine material left after commercial minerals are removed. OK-2767-14.
Date: May 23, 1967
Creator: Ball, Lemuel
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Lead-Zinc Mining--Wind Erosion

Description: Photograph of the Eagle-Pichers Mine, near Commerce, Oklahoma. Here showing the effects of snow fences in checking wind erosion. The coaser silica material has drifted high in the snow fences creating a series of deep drifts of coarser particles. Note the absence of vegetation even though this is located in approximately a 44 inch ppt. [parts per trillion?] zone. OK-2769-5.
Date: May 23, 1967
Creator: Bennett, K. C.
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Lead-Zinc Mining--Wind Erosion

Description: Photograph of the area around the Eagle-Pichers Mine, Picher, Oklahoma, here showing the drift effects of wind erosion from slime ponds. Drifts of silicas. They blow sand from the abandoned slimes pond, themseleves about 160 acres in size lying immediately to the east of the Central Mill. Plant materials plantings were made along the south side of this area in the fall and spring of 1966 - 1967. OK-2769-4.
Date: May 23, 1967
Creator: Ball, Lemuel
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Lead-Zinc Mining--Wind Erosion

Description: Photograph of the area around the Eagle-Pichers Mine, Picher, Oklahoma. County road being affected by silica-blow sand with barrow ditches drifted full. This road borders the north side of an abandoned slimes pond lying immediately east of the Central Mill. OK-2769-9.
Date: May 23, 1967
Creator: Bennett, K. C.
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Lead-Zinc Mining--Wind Erosion

Description: Photograph of the area around the Eagle-Pichers Mine, Picher, Oklahoma. Showing drifts of silica-blow sand from abandoned slimes pond about 160 acres in size and lying immediately east of the Central Mill. Plantings were made along the south side of this area in the fall and spring of 1966 – 1967. OK-2769-6.
Date: May 23, 1967
Creator: Bennett, K. C.
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Lead-Zinc Mining--Wind Erosion

Description: Photograph of the area around the Eagle-Pichers Mine, Picher, Oklahoma. A country road being affected by silica-blow sands filling narrow ditches. This road borders the north side of an abandoned slimes pond lying immediately east of the Central Mill. OK-2769-9.
Date: May 23, 1967
Creator: Bennett, K. C.
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Lead-Zinc Mining--Wind Erosion

Description: Photograph of the Eagle-Pichers Mine area, at Picher, Oklahoma. A country road affected by silica-blow sand, with barrow ditches full. This road borders the north side of an abandoned slimes pond lying immediately east of the Central Mill. OK-2769-9.
Date: May 23, 1967
Creator: Bennett, K. C.
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Lead-Zinc Mining--Wind Erosion

Description: Photograph of the Eagle-Pichers Mine area, at Picher, Oklahoma. Vegetation of old dyke around slimes pond being affected by wind erosion producing siliceous dust (sand). The dike constructed to hold water and fines [finer particulate metal] from flotation process. The pond eventually fills with fines and is abandoned. The area devoid of any vegetation is subject to severe wind erosion. This picture depicts fines converting willows and cottonwoods on the dike. The spur rairoad must receive perod… more
Date: May 23, 1967
Creator: Bennett, K. C.
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B1036.0333]

Description: Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company.
Date: January 23, 1986
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society
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