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Water Conservation; Water Erosion; Flooding and Prevention

Description: Photograph of flood prevention at Cane Creek, Site # 22, near Boynton, OK. Mr. and Mrs. S. L. Seivert are shown the extent of the sediment pool on their farm by Virgil Cole, Chairman, Cane Creek Conservancy District and Member of the Muskogee County Soil and Water conservation District [SWCD] Board of Supervisors, and its relation to their cooperative agreement No. 2609. Seivert signed the first easement secured for this watershed. OK-1479-11.
Date: October 19, 1961
Creator: Castle, Ernest L.
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Water Conservation; Water Erosion; Flooding and Prevention

Description: Photograph of Flood prevention. Mr. and Mrs. S. L. Seivert signing the first easement for the Cane Creek Watershed. Virgil Cole, Chairman of the Cane Creek Conservancy District and Board Member of Muskogee County, Soil & Water Conservation District [SWCD], looks on. This easement was the first one secured for work on this watershed. Seivert’s District agreement No, 2609 for their 320 acre farm was signed on June 28, 1955. This is for Site # 22. OK-1479-8. PHOTO IS MISSING.
Date: October 19, 1961
Creator: Castle, Ernest L.
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Water Conservation; Water Erosion; Flooding and Prevention

Description: Photograph of flood prevention at Cane Creek, Site # 22, near Boynton, OK. Mr. and Mrs. S. L. Seivert are signing the first easement for the Cane Creek Watershed. Virgil Cole, Chairman, Cane Creek Conservancy District and Member of the Muskogee County Soil and Water conservation District [SWCD] Board of Supervisors, looks on. This easement was the first one secured for work on this watershed. Seivert's District agreement, No. 2609 for their 320 acre farm signed June 28, 1955. This is for Site #… more
Date: October 19, 1961
Creator: Castle, Ernest L.
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0274.0660]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Students at Taft junior high school, watching a performance of these Kiowa entertainers, have decided that it's the best way to study American Indians - at least, it's one of the most enjoyable ways."
Date: November 19, 1946
Creator: East, Bob
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B1011.0413]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Oklahoma All-Star Kevin Pearson of Muskogee reaches for the first base bag before California first baseman Gordon Dillard can put down the tag on this pickoff attempt."
Date: June 19, 1982
Creator: Hellstern, Paul
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B1366.0160]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "MUSKOGEE --- A Muskogee County District Court jury late Monday found Gene and Joyce White guilty of neglecting their 4-year-old grandson who they kept caged in a dog p[en"
Date: March 19, 1990
Creator: Hellstern, Paul
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B1366.0307]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "A jury late Monday found a Muskogee couple guilty of improperly keeping their grandson in a dog pen and recommended the pair be fined $300."
Date: March 19, 1990
Creator: Hellstern, Paul
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

Picking Melons

Description: Photograph of picking melons from a field planted on the contour, Yeild this year is much below average due to the severe dry spell. Muskogee Project
Date: July 19, 1936
Creator: Hufnagle
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Contour Farming

Description: Photograph of Mr. Ramsey, owner, conferring with Mr. Badwick, tenant, on contour-planted cotton field. Sudan strip visible in the background. [OK ID no. illegible].
Date: July 19, 1936
Creator: Hufnagle, Richard W.
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Contour Farming

Description: Photograph of strip cropping with Lespedeza, soy beans and corn. Unterraced field. This view is to be compared with OKLA 5310, which shows a nearby field which has the same soil and is about the same slope, but which is planted in straight rows up and down the slopes and the cotton is very poor, as, in this season of very slight rainfall, what did fall was kept on the contour-farmed field, but was lost on the other. OK-5311.
Date: July 19, 1936
Creator: Hufnagle, Richard W.
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Contour Farming

Description: Photograph of Earl Smith, SCS Agent, discussing the advantages of contour farming and strip cropping. OK-5299.
Date: July 19, 1936
Creator: Hufnagle, Richard W.
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Contour Farming

Description: Photograph of strip cropping with Lespedeza, soy beans and corn. Unterraced field. This view is to be compared with OKLA 5310, which shows a nearby field which has the same soil and is about the same slope, but which is planted in straight rows up and down the slopes and the cotton is very poor, as, in this season of very slight rainfall, what did fall was kept on the contour-farmed field, but was lost on the other. OK-5311.
Date: July 19, 1936
Creator: Hufnagle, Richard W.
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Farm Homes

Description: Photograph of George Mueller family and house. One of the better tenant houses and farmyards in eastern Oklahoma. OK-5307.
Date: July 19, 1936
Creator: Hufnagle, Richard W.
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Farming Equipment and Methods

Description: Photograph of the Culton boys at well in which the water level has risen 6 to 8 feet in the last two years since terraces were built and contour farming has been practiced. OK-5296.
Date: July 19, 1936
Creator: Hufnagle, Richard W.
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

US Government Land; Squatter families

Description: Photograph of a very poor shack in which five African-Americans live. Notice the sheet iron used in patching up the sides and the roof and how the shack tilts at an angle. The occupants are feeding the hogs right at the back porch. OK-5305.
Date: July 19, 1936
Creator: Hufnagle, Richard W.
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society
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