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Wind, Wind Erosion, Sand Storms and Dunes

Description: Photograph of sand accumulation around machinery and farm buildings. Note men on the cultivator which is almost completely covered by soil drift. Second line drift leading from barns is over 100 yds. long and five feet high, leading out into open field, a serious hazard. OK-44.
Date: July 25, 1936
Creator: McLean, B. C.
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Soils, Soil Erosion, Soil Conservation & Crop Management [?].

Description: Photograph of bank erosion on Cold Water Creek, with heavy damage to farmstead imminent. The edge of the bank is 500 feet from the house shown in the photo. OK-370.
Date: March 27, 1939
Creator: Haines, R. W.
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Virgin Soil Kept in Place by Yucca Plants

Description: Photograph of virgin soil kept in place by Yucca plants, where about four feet of soil has been removed. This is an undisturbed pasture area which has been overgrazed.
Date: April 1935
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Plow Covered by Sand

Description: Photograph of a one way plow covered by sand from the field. Pictures of this type are quite common in the Panhandle area. This plow is covered by the soil which it helped remove. One way plows are to be blamed for much of the destruction of cultivated wheat fields.
Date: April 1935
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Removal of Top Soil

Description: Photograph of a view of a field from which the top soil has been removed. The lister marks of two years cultivation are plainly visible in the picture. The structure, (hexagon) of the subsoil is also shown by this picture.
Date: April 1935
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Contour Furrows in Pasture

Description: Photograph of contour furrows in pasture. Made with 2-row lister on right, alternating 42 inches and 17.5 feet apart; on left, 7 feet apart made with 3-row lister. Approximately 1.5 lb blue grama grass seed per acre seeded along furrows immediately after furrowing.
Date: July 25, 1936
Creator: McLean, B. C.
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Sand Accumulation Around Machinery and Farm Buildings

Description: Photograph of a UNIDENTIFED man sitting on a cultivator looking at sand accumulation around machinery and farm buildings. The back of the photograph proclaims, "Sand accumulation around machinery and farm buildings. Note man on cultivator, which is almost completely covered by soil drift. Second line drift leading from barns in over 100 yds. long and 5 ft. high, leading out into open field, a serious hazard."
Date: July 25, 1936
Creator: McLean
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Newly Constructed Contour Furrows

Description: Photograph of newly constructed contour furrows in pasture alternately 7 and 21 feet.
Date: May 30, 1936
Creator: Williams, Quentin
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Stillwater Creek Overflowing

Description: Photograph of Stillwater Creek pouring over State Highway 40. Same highway had water eight feet deep flowing over the roads in the watershed.
Date: April 1935
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Sage Brush

Description: Photograph of sage brush.
Date: July 25, 1936
Creator: Williams, Quentin
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Bear Grass (Yucca Glanca)

Description: Photograph of Bear Grass (Yucca Glanca) after seed pods had formed.
Date: July 25, 1936
Creator: Williams, Quentin
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Office Staff During Dust Storm

Description: Photograph of Pony Creek SCS Office Staff during a severe dust storm. Visibility about 50 feet. A flash bulb was used in making this photograph
Date: February 17, 1937
Creator: McLean, B. C.
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Newly Constructed Contour Furrows

Description: Photograph of newly constructed contour furrows. Furrows on left are spaced 7 feet apart; those on right are spaced alternately 42 inches and 17.5 feet apart.
Date: May 30, 1936
Creator: Williams, Quentin
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Yellow Flowered Weed

Description: Photograph of a yellow flowered weed.
Date: July 25, 1936
Creator: Williams, Quentin
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Walnut Trees surviving Adverse Conditions

Description: Photograph of Walnut trees approximately 25 years old, which have lived through very adverse conditions during the past few years. In small drainageway, but no provision for storing excess water.
Date: November 14, 1936
Creator: Williams, Quentin
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Three Row Orchard Windbreak

Description: Photograph of a three-row orchard windbreak. Mulberry on left, Chinese3 Elm in center, and Juniper on right. Note the dominance of the elm in spite of its being in position where it would tend to be submerged on account of competition.
Date: April 30, 1937
Creator: McLean, B. C.
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Wheat Killed by Drifting Soil

Description: Photograph of wheat on terraced land which has been killed by drifting soil from adjoining fields. Soil moisture penetration 27 inches at seeding time, Oct. 1, 1936.
Date: April 30, 1937
Creator: McLean, B. C.
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Blown Soil

Description: Photograph of blown soil accumulations in Russian Thistles in highway now 4 feed deep. This was caused by allowing thistles to grow along side of the highway which caught soil moved by wing from the adjoining field.
Date: April 30, 1937
Creator: McLean, B. C.
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Returning to Alfalfa

Description: Photograph of a field to be returned, by irrigation, to alfalfa. Irrigation well will be located in the foreground. Alfalfa was produced in this field for about 30 years prior to 1934, with irrigation water supplied from the Beaver River. Impossible to take water from river since floods have cut the bank of the creek.
Date: May 11, 1939
Creator: Haines
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Lost Water from Straight Row Farming

Description: Photograph of lost water from straight row farming on about 2 percent slope section of land. Water was coming from field out into bar ditch in foreground along highway. Photograph was taken during a 1 in. rain.
Date: July 14, 1938
Creator: McLean, B. C.
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Water Lost from Cultivated Field

Description: Photograph of water lost from a field left of the photograph. The field was cultivated up and down slope. This stream of water came out of field into the bar ditch along highway during a 1.5 in. rainfall. Width of stream in foreground is 40 feet. Photo was taken while raining. Slope estimated to be 2 percent.
Date: July 14, 1938
Creator: McLean, B. C.
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Water Pouring Out of a Field

Description: Photograph of a river of water pouring out of a section of land. Up and down slope tilled during a 1 1/4 inch of rain. Straight rows may be seen in background. The slope was about 2.5 inch toward the point where the picture was taken. The huge volume of water that broke through the end of the field into the bar ditch along highway caused regular rapids and churning water. Width of water in the main current was at least 2 feet deep. Photo was taken during a rain.
Date: July 14, 1938
Creator: McLean, B. C.
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

An Abandoned Farmstead

Description: A photograph from the Dust Bowl era taken by the USDA Soil Conservation Service showing an abandoned, drought-stricken farmstead in Texas County, Oklahoma. Farm equipment can be seen buried in drifts of dirt before a derelict home and outbuildings and a weather-beaten windmill
Date: October 5, 1937
Creator: United States. Soil Conservation Service
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society
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