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Soil Sample Evaluation from Two Different Areas

Description: Photograph of "Two samples of a soil showing the deterioration that [took] place if the cropping system consists mainly of soil-depleting crops. The soil on the left has been used to grow soil-depleting crops year after year over a long period of time. The sample on the right was taken from an area where the soil has been rotated with soil improving crops part of the time."
Date: August 2, 1967
Creator: Frie, J. W.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Wheat Stubble Mulch Tillage

Description: Photograph of stubble mulch tillage of wheat stubble after harvest. Approximately 2000 pounds per acre of wheat stubble left on the soil surface to protect the land from wind and water erosion. Decomposed stubble also adds organic matter to the soil. This practice is recommended by the SCS.
Date: August 9, 1956
Creator: McConnell, John
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Range Improvement by Deferred Grazing

Description: Photograph of the effects of deferred grazing of side oats grama on the Simmons ranch. This grass has not been grazed during 1958 to allow the grass to seed and let the stand become thicker and in general improve the range.
Date: August 8, 1958
Creator: McConnell, John
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Terrace Construction

Description: Photograph of Wayburn Gibson, contractor, constructing terraces with caterpillar and bulldozer. Terrace will reduce erosion by reducing runoff. Terrace system was designed by the Soil Conservation Service. Land will be planted to wheat in the fall of 1956.
Date: August 9, 1956
Creator: McConnell, John
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Terrace Construction

Description: Photograph of Wayburn Gibson, contractor, constructing terraces with caterpillar and bulldozer. Terrace will reduce erosion by reducing runoff. Terrace system was designed by the Soil Conservation Service. Land will be planted to wheat in the fall of 1956.
Date: August 9, 1956
Creator: McConnell, John
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Stubble Mulch Tillage

Description: Photograph of a close up of stubble mulch tillage of wheat stubble after harvest. Approximately 2000 pounds per acre of wheat stubble left on the soil surface to protect the land from wind and water erosion. Decomposed stubble also adds organic matter to the soil. This practice is recommended by SCS.
Date: August 9, 1956
Creator: McConnell, John
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Brush Control

Description: Photograph of a close up of an area sprayed with 2-4-5T to control the shinnery oak brush. Note condition of the shinnery plants. Sand bluestem and little bluestem are the dominant grasses and their grazing has been deferred during the summer season. The grasses are showing good improvement.
Date: August 8, 1958
Creator: McConnell, John
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Stubble Mulch Tillage

Description: Photograph of stubble mulch tillage of wheat stubble after harvest. Approximately 2000 pounds per acre of wheat stubble left on the soil surface to protect the land from wind and water erosion. Decomposed stubble also adds organic matter to the soil. This practice is recommended by the SCS.
Date: August 9, 1956
Creator: McConnell, John
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Stubble Mulch Tillage

Description: Photograph of stubble mulch tillage of wheat stubble after harvest. Approximately 2000 pounds per acre of wheat stubble left on the soil surface to protect the land from wind and water erosion. Decomposed stubble also adds organic matter to the soil. This practice is recommended by the SCS.
Date: August 9, 1956
Creator: McConnell, John
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B1380.0601]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "After the frames aer scraped, Witt and her mother-in-law, Jean Witt, load them into an extractor, where the honey is extracted by centrifugal force."
Date: August 13, 1990
Creator: Argo, Jim
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B1361.0483]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "When Apollo 11 astronaut Neil Armstrong planted his "one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind" on the moon's Sea of Tranquility, he did so on a spot painstakingly selected by a former Oklahoma woman."
Date: August 7, 1969
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B1306.0677]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Mr. and Mrs. George E. Thomas were to be honored on their 50th wedding anniversary today at a reception from 3 p.m. to 5 p.m. in the First Methodist Church here."
Date: August 18, 1974
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0372.0464]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "And Bob Lindsey, banker, tells how the total of farm loans has shrunk from about 40 percent in his bank, to about 20 percent "not because our farm loans are less, but because other kinds of loans have increased."
Date: August 5, 1958
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society
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