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[Photograph 2012.201.B1112.0168]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Robert Rudie, concertmaster of the Oklahoma State Symphony Orchestra, will appear as a soloist in the orchestra's third subscription concert Friday in Municipal Auditorium."
Date: December 9, 1948
Creator: Abresch, James
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.b1301.0149]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Gov. -elect Roy J. Turner (left) of Oklahoma chats with screen stars Dale Evans and Roy Rogers (right) ."
Date: January 9, 1947
Creator: Acme Newspictures (New York, N.Y.)
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

UNIDENTIFED Man Standing In A Cornfield Planted With Vetch

Description: Photograph of an UNIDENTIFED man standing in a cornfield planted with vetch. The back of the photograph proclaims, “Corn following 4 crops of vetch. Land prepared for alfalfa last fall – too dry – so corn planted this spring. Vetch was used for pasture. Cut for hay one year yielding 70 bales per acre. Says vetch good pasture and will graze on head per acre during favorable growing season of fall or spring. Johnson grass killed with one deep and one shallow planting in dry weather.”
Date: July 9, 1949
Creator: Bachman, A. L.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

UNIDENTIFED Man Standing in a Field of Second Year Vetch

Description: Photograph of an UNIDENTIFED man standing in a field of second year vetch. Directly behind the UNIDENTIFED man is a field of corn following four years of vetch. The back of the photograph proclaims, “2nd year vetch. Grazed with 14 head of cows on 12 acres from last of March to first part of May. Immediately south in background following 4 years of vetch.“
Date: July 9, 1949
Creator: Bachman, A. L.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Water Conservation; Water Erosion; Flooding and Prevention

Description: Photograph of representative erosion damage in this section from a heavy rain, approximate a 1 inch accumulation on May 9, 1947. Silting and washing in this 35 acre cornfield have destroyed conservatively 12 to 18 percent of the corn and cotton crop. Corn and cotton was cultivated up and down rows and dozens of small washes 3 to 25 feet wide have covered the young plants completely with silt. Erosion control methods, properly established, would have reduced the damage to less than 1%. Class II … more
Date: May 9, 1947
Creator: Becton, T. H.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Caterpillar Tractor

Description: Caption says, "A-384 Dikes, North. Caterpillar tractor with bulldozer attachment pulling rolling tamper on backfilling operations in cutoff trench. North Dike, Station 3+50."
Date: October 9, 1941
Creator: Breitenstein, Frank C.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Museum of the Western Prairie

Concrete Culvert

Description: Caption says, "A-507 Telephoto of reinforced 5' x 4' concrete culvert, at Station 45-45, on Santa Fe Railroad relocation. Upstream end."
Date: December 9, 1941
Creator: Breitenstein, Frank C.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Museum of the Western Prairie

Concrete Placing

Description: Caption says, "A-823 Closeup view of first concrete placing operations on Altus Dam. Concrete is being placed along the downstream toe in order to provide access to the spillway apron and upstream portion of dam foundation."
Date: February 9, 1943
Creator: Breitenstein, Frank C.
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Partner: Museum of the Western Prairie

Concrete Placing

Description: Caption says, "A-824 Placing concrete in large water worn channel in foundation adjacent to downstream toe of the dam."
Date: February 9, 1943
Creator: Breitenstein, Frank C.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Museum of the Western Prairie
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