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[Photograph 2012.201.B0152.0110]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Water for city gushes through Canton dam floodgates."
Date: July 6, 1956
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0318.0296]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "In Okeene, as you may recall reading at least once a year, lives a breed of men who catch rattlesnakes, manhandle rattlesnakes, eat rattlesnakes and dream rattlesnakes."
Date: August 5, 1956
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0117.0187]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Expert judges at a Southwestern State college beauty contest were former graduates who married campus beauties of 1939, 1941, and 1949. They are left to right, Jim Burnham, Canton; Al Ackerman, Fort Cobb, and Paul Flick Jr., Clinton."
Date: November 21, 1956
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B1412.0430]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "BERT WILLIS, former senator and longtime booster for SH 51, was given the honor of cutting the ribbon to open the new bridge named "Old Fort Cantonment Crossing Bridge" Wednesday."
Date: 1956
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B1251.0423]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Mr. and Mrs. James Franklin Smith of Geary are pictured with seven of Mr. Smith's 29 sons and daughters (16 by his present wife) . David, 5, is on mom's lap, while Smith holds Carl Joe, 3, on his lap. The girls are, from left, Nadine, 10; Lilly May, 7; Linda Fay, 9; Emma Gene, 15; and Jewel Dean, 13. These are seven of the 10 kids still at home."
Date: February 15, 1956
Creator: Tapscott, George
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0367.0093]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "New officers of the Oklahoma Cotton Ginners' association are left to right, G. N. Irish, Muskogee, second vice-president; Sam Lafaver, Watonga, president; and Carl Fox Hollis, first vice-president."
Date: March 10, 1956
Creator: Matheson, Mandell
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0924.0522]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Canton's Most Valuable Citizen is Houston Edsel, left, who is being awarded a plaque by C. Roy Shaw, of the Bank of Canton. The bank conducted a survey to determine the city's most outstanding citizen. Center is Tom S. Myers, First National Bank and Trust Co., of OKC, who was speaker at the presentation dinner in Canton."
Date: February 6, 1956
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0367.0457]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "HISTORY WAS MADE here Tuesday afternoon when Ed Lamle, of Okeene, former president of the Flying Famers of Oklahoma, proved members of his group can drop in on the Southwest American exposition at the fairgrounds, April 22 to 29, by air if they desire."
Date: March 27, 1956
Creator: King, Cliff
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0367.0456]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "HISTORY WAS MADE here Tuesday afternoon when Ed Lamle, Okeene, former president of the Flying Farmers of Oklahoma, proved members of his group can drop in on the Southwest American exposition at the fairgrounds April 22 to 39 by air if the desire."
Date: March 27, 1956
Creator: King, Cliff
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B1251.0424]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "James Franklin Smith, right, 77, has been helping the "Smith" clan for 56 years. The salty native of Arkansas has fathered 29 sons and daughters, outliving three of them, and says he is not through yet. He is shown at his home in Geary, Okla., with his 46-year-old second wife, Arvelia, who has 16 children with him, 10 still at home. He and his first wife, Ida, were married in 1898, and he said he never gave a "big family" an… more
Date: February 15, 1956
Creator: Tapscott, George
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B1006.0204]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "The spacious dining room of Roman Nose lodge offers a broad expansion of glass windows where guests can dine overlooking Boecher lake and the rough, red hills of west central Oklahoma."
Date: 1956
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B1006.0206]

Description: Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Roman Nose State Park, New Lodge"
Date: March 30, 1956
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B1006.0202]

Description: Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Roman Nose lodge rooms, too, look out over the scenery in the park."
Date: March 28, 1956
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B1064.0081]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Six different kinds of immunization shots are required for the Conn Price family, who leaves soon to make their home in Afghanistan."
Date: October 12, 1956
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B1006.0196]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Smallest of the state lodges, yet built along the same attractive lines and within easy driving distance of several large cities, is Roman Nose lodge near Watonga."
Date: 1956
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B1042.0273]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "READY, SET, GO! L.H. Patterson, resident engineer at Canton reservoir, pushes the button controlling dam floodgates."
Date: July 6, 1956
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B1006.0192]

Description: Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Roman Nose State Park Lodge"
Date: July 12, 1956
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

Grass, Legume and Forb Cultivation

Description: Photograph of crop residue utilization. Excellent wheat on 70 soil.** Mr. Jude Matli, as SCD Cooperator, manages his crop residue to prevent sol loss by wind and water erosion by leaving a maximum amount of straw on the surface. He uses a combination of methods to control weeds and prepare a seedbed based on conditions of flexible tillage. His soil management program also includes a legume of vetch, sweetclover or alfalfa. OK-279-8. ** 70 soil. Unclear on the term. Perhaps referring to a 70/30 … more
Date: May 14, 1956
Creator: Gamble, M. D.
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Grass, Legume and Forb Cultivation

Description: Photograph of crop residue utilization. Earl Judge, left Work Unit Conservationist [WUC], Soil Conservation District [SCD]-65, and D.G. Craig, Agronomist, Great Plains states, checking prospects for a good wheat yield. Mr. Jude Matli, an SCD Cooperator, manages his crop residue to prevent soil loss from his 70 soil by wind and water erosion by leaving a maximum amount of straw on the surface. He uses a combination of methods to control weeds and prepare a seedbed based on conditions of flexible… more
Date: May 14, 1956
Creator: Gamble, M. D.
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Grass, Legume and Forb Cultivation

Description: Photograph of crop residue utilization. Excellent wheat on 70 soil.** Mr. Jude Matli, as SCD Cooperator, manages his crop residue to prevent sol loss by wind and water erosion by leaving a maximum amount of straw on the surface. He uses a combination of methods to control weeds and prepare a seedbed based on conditions of flexible tillage. His soil management program also includes a legume of vetch, sweetclover or alfalfa. OK-279-8. ** 70 soil. Unclear on the term. Perhaps referring to a 70/30 … more
Date: May 14, 1956
Creator: Gamble, M. D.
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Farming Equipment and Methods

Description: Photograph of stubble mulching. Stubble mulching on wheat land. Stubble mulch implement of Guy Schroder’s. This implement has a series of five 32-inch sweeps. Schroder is a cooperator with the North Caddo Soil Conservation District [SCD] and started the Soil Conservation Service program on this farm in 1950.
Date: October 26, 1956
Creator: Kealthley, M. G.
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Grass, Legume and Forb Cultivation

Description: Photograph of native grass planting. This 7-acre seeding of Caucasian bluestem was planted in rows in 1951 on soil IV-12. Mr. Graden Teeter, shown, is a Soil Conservation District [SCD] supervisor. His use of this seedling has been consistent with good management practices. He has used it for a seed increase plot and for winter grazing. Note volunteer seedlings covering the areas between the rows. OK-298-1.
Date: May 14, 1956
Creator: Gamble, M. D.
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society
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