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BASEMENT BOX 67.0278

Description: Photograph taken during daylight of people managing building fires. Caption: "Flames fanned by high winds whipped through three businesses Sunday leaving damages estimated $35,000 to $40,000 in downtown Drumright."
Date: May 2, 1965
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

Exterior of Church of Good Shepherd, Sapulpa

Description: Built in 1905 then moved to Walnut and Thompson. Unpaved road in front of the wood framed building and a cross at the apex of roof.
Date: 1905
Partner: Episcopal Diocese of Oklahoma

Boy Scout Troup 28

Description: Boy Scouts stand with a priest in front of The Church of Good Shepherd. A knot board with scout troop number 28 is visible in the photograph. The images dates from the late 1930's.
Date: 1930/1939
Partner: Episcopal Diocese of Oklahoma

W. R. Whitehead

Description: Photograph of W. R. Whitehead hand harvesting weeping lovegrass.
Date: July 14, 1945
Creator: Jenkins, Elvin W.
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Kermit Whitehead

Description: Photograph of Kermit Whitehead, son of land owner W. R. Whitehead, examining corn.
Date: October 10, 1942
Creator: Webb, Gordon C.
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Cotton

Description: Photograph of fertilized cotton.
Date: October 5, 1942
Creator: Webb, Gordon C.
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Water Conservation; Water Erosion; Flooding and Prevention

Description: Photograph of Floodwaters from the Little deep Fork Creek inundated many hundreds of acres of productive bottomlands and much damage was done to growing crops--wheat, oats, alfalfa--about ready for harvest. Damage to country roads and bridges exceeded $100,000. One bridge, 115 feet long, will cost $18,000 to replace another 88 foot bridge will cost $12,000. Levees 8' high were destroyed by the record breaking flood. OK-706-2.
Date: July 24, 1958
Creator: Hamilton, Tom
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

W. A. Seney's Harvested Peanut Field

Description: Photograph of W. A. Seney standing in front of a recently harvested peanut field. The back of the photograph proclaims, "Mr. Seney standing in field from which peanuts have just been pulled and stacked. A winter cover crop of rye grass has been harrowed in by Mr. Seney, which will be pastured until spring and then plowed under as a green manure crop. Field is contour tilled and terraced. Mr. Seney said he expected the peanuts to average 50 bushels per acre—the best peanut crop he has made."
Date: October 9, 1942
Creator: Webb, C. G.
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

[Photograph: OHPG0422]

Description: Methodist Parsonage. L-R. Belle C Murray, Rev Merrill G Murray, Richard C Murray, Harold E Marray
Date: 1922~
Partner: Keystone Crossroads Historical Society

[Photograph: OHPG0413]

Description: Melvin Pulliam's mobile welding truck
Date: unknown
Partner: Keystone Crossroads Historical Society

[Photograph: OHPG0147]

Description: Picture of the outside of the Mannford State Bank with a cart loaded with sacks of sot beans and a notice posted on it stating one acres soy beans $100 This picture was taken before the front entrance was altered
Date: 1927
Partner: Keystone Crossroads Historical Society

Grass, Legume and Forb Cultivation

Description: Photograph of pasture establishing. Pasture recently established on land cleared from dense oak brush. Original brush in the background. This land was sprigged with midland Bermuda grass roots raised on the Roy Whitehead farm. Sprigging was done with an automatic Bermuda grass sprigger and fertilized at the time of sprigging with 200 pounds of 10-20-10 fertilizer per acre. This land clearing and pasture establishing is recommended by the Soil Conservation Service.
Date: May 11, 1956
Creator: McConnell, John
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Hand Harvesting Weeping Lovegrass

Description: Photograph of hand harvesting weeping lovegrass seed in 2 year old planting in corner of cultivated field. Note terraces and contour cultivation in background. Whitehead operates a 520 acre farm and plans to plant 10 to 15 acres of lovegrass next year. Last year he hand harvested 24 pounds of seed from 1/8 acre.A 2 acre field of ryegrass was grazed by 130 hogs, one hour in the morning and one hour in the afternoon for 90 days, beginning February 1, 1945. Seed was then combined from the plot. Mr… more
Date: July 14, 1945
Creator: Jenkins, E. W.
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Hand Harvesting Weeping Lovegrass

Description: Photograph of hand harvesting weeping lovegrass seed in 2 year old planting in corner of cultivated field. Note terraces and contour cultivation in background. Whitehead operates a 520 acre farm and plans to plant 10 to 15 acres of lovegrass next year. Last year he hand harvested 24 pounds of seed from 1/8 acre.A 2 acre field of ryegrass was grazed by 130 hogs, one hour in the morning and one hour in the afternoon for 90 days, beginning February 1, 1945. Seed was then combined from the plot. Mr… more
Date: July 14, 1945
Creator: Jenkins, E. W.
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

In Appreciation

Description: Photograph of Arthur Foster, Little Deep Fork Watershed Association representative presents a plaque of appreciation to the Creek County SWCD. Accepting the award is W. A. Juedeman, Chairman of the Creek County SWCD Board of Supervisors.
Date: October 25, 1968
Creator: Croom, Dan F.
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

[Photograph Letter]

Description: No Description Available.
Date: unknown
Partner: Oklahoma State Firefighters Museum

Water Conservation; Water Erosion; Flooding and Prevention

Description: Photograph of a stream channel clogging. Drift wood clogging the stream channel on the Little Deep Fort Creek. This clogging causes the water to spread out over the land during periods of heavy rain fall. Much damage is done to both land and crops as the result of this flooding. The Soil Conservation Service estimates that damage is done to 16,500 acres of bottomland along the creek. OK-273-5.
Date: May 11, 1956
Creator: McConnell, John
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Grass, Legume and Forb Cultivation

Description: Photograph of O. W. Johnston is using a side delivery rake to cut vetch in windrows preparatory to combining. Johnston planted about 80 acres of vetch last year, mostly in combination with small grains (oats, rye, wheat, and ryegrass), but some pure vetch was also planted. All was inoculated and treated with 100 pounds per acre of superphosphate seed yield from approximately 35 acres; 18,000 pounds (vetch and small grain) of this approximately 12,000 pound are pure vetch. He planted vetch and s… more
Date: July 13, 1945
Creator: Jenkins, E. W.
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Bermuda Grass

Description: Photograph of Bermuda grass.
Date: May 11, 1956
Creator: McConnell, John
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Hand Harvesting Weeping Lovegrass Seed

Description: Photograph of hand harvesting weeping lovegrass seed in 2 year old planting in corner of cultivated field. Note terraces and contour cultivation in background. Whitehead operates a 520 acre farm and plans to plant 10 to 15 acres of lovegrass next year. Last year he hand harvested 24 pounds of seed from 1/8 acre.A 2 acre field of ryegrass was grazed by 130 hogs, one hour in the morning and one hour in the afternoon for 90 days, beginning February 1, 1945. Seed was then combined from the plot. Mr… more
Date: July 14, 1945
Creator: Jenkins, E. W.
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society
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