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[Photograph 2012.201.B0418.0076]

Description: Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Broken Bow Fire Tower"
Date: October 12, 1956
Creator: Gumm, John
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0418.0078]

Description: Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company.
Date: October 12, 1956
Creator: Gumm, John
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0907.0704]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Brain of the forest protection is the dispatcher board which pinpoints a blaze from reading from the 14 towers. here making a triangulation is W. H. Mitchell, forester in charge of fire protection."
Date: October 12, 1956
Creator: Gumm, John
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B01005.0359]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Jimmie Lou Collum, Broken Bow, walks out on the rocks in the Mountain Fork river in Beavers Bend state park."
Date: October 12, 1956
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B01005.0357]

Description: Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company.
Date: October 12, 1956
Creator: Gumm, John
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B01005.0362]

Description: Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company.
Date: October 12, 1956
Creator: Gumm, John
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B01005.0369]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Typical of the cabins in Beavers Bend state park is this two-bedroom unit perched high among pines in the upper area."
Date: October 12, 1956
Creator: Gumm, John
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B01005.0323]

Description: Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company.
Date: October 12, 1956
Creator: Gumm, John
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B1396.0164]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "R.E. Warren, Idabel merchant, stockman and fruit grower, peeking through clusters of Elberta peaches on one tree. This one tree is yielding more than five bushels of peaches this season."
Date: 1956
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B1396.0163]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Many of the Elberta and Hale peaches in the Warren orchard near Idabel are three inches in diameter, and it doesn't take many of them to fill a bushel basket."
Date: 1956
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B1412.0359]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "NAACP DELEGATES Clarence A. Laws, left, Mrs. M. L. Sanders, center, and Dr. H. W. Williamston, right, are shown as they scan schedule of events in the 26th annual state convention of the Oklahoma Association of the Natioal Association for the Advancement of Colored People."
Date: 1956
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

Three Men

Description: Photograph of three men having a discussion outside. In the photo are LeRoy Mclendon (Haworth Supt of Schools) discussing school income from forest with Paul Andrews ( County Supt. Of Schools) and Haskall Pete (Haworth FFA instructor.
Date: October 10, 1956
Creator: Hayes, Earl J.
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

H.C. Walker

Description: Photograph of H.C. Walker sitting outside on the horse. He was a long time board member of Little River Soil Conservation district. He was an old time cowboy and stockman.
Date: June 19, 1956
Creator: Hayes, Earl J.
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

Forestry Lumber

Description: Photograph of forestry lumber sorter at Herron Industries in Idabel.
Date: November 27, 1956
Creator: McConnell, John
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

Pine Nursery

Description: Photograph of pine nursery from state division of forestry one mile west of Broken Bow.
Date: November 26, 1956
Creator: McConnell, John
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

Stacked Logs

Description: Photograph of stacked logs for pulpwood next to railroad tracks.
Date: October 10, 1956
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

Disking New Land

Description: Photograph of Pat Martin farm in Valliant district. Herschel Ginn is disking new land with heavy disk. Martin says the disk cuts stove wood as it prepares corn land.
Date: April 19, 1956
Creator: Hayes, E. J.
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Woodland Conservation

Description: Photograph of Jo Ann Watson and Rachel Goings peeling posts as part of a Schoool Forest Harvest at Beachton, 1956. Both girls can "speak with authority" about School Forests and Woodland Conservaton. Jo Ann recently wrote the winning forestry theme in a contest between Beachton and Brushy Ridge Schools. OK-238-2.
Date: April 3, 1956
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Land Conservation, Management and Utilization

Description: Photograph showing how it takes good management to produce good logs on a sustained yield basis. Soil Conservation Service technicians mark timber to be harvested on a high percentage of land worked by Stauter Mill. He paid the government $44,000 for eleven 40-acre tracts for marked timber only. OK-338-1.
Date: July 20, 1956
Creator: Hayes, Earl J.
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Land Conservation, Management and Utilization

Description: Photograph of harvest cutting. It takes good logs to make good homes. To keep this mill operating continuously the Stauter Lumber Company buys logs from the McCurtain County Land Utilization [LU] Project formerly administered by the Soil Conservation Service. Increased timber volume enabled this mill to employ 85 people where none worked before. OK-315-12.
Date: July 19, 1956
Creator: Hayes, Earl J.
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Land Conservation, Management and Utilization

Description: Photograph of an automatic lumber sorter in operation at a saw mill. This sorter conveys and drops lumber in piles according to size and grade. Lumber is sawed at a mill in the forest and hauled to a finishing mil in town. As the lumber is unloaded, it is fed into this sorter which moves it and piles it in the proper place. The lumber is fed into the sorter by two men, thus conserving much time and labor. OK-413-9.
Date: November 27, 1956
Creator: McConnell, John
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Land Conservation, Management and Utilization

Description: Photograph of managed timber here saved for curing before going to the planing mill. Well spaced pine under management turns out clean, clear lumber products so demanded by buyers today. It takes 25,000 feet per day to keep this mill operating. OK-338-3.
Date: July 20, 1956
Creator: Hayes, Earl J.
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Land Conservation, Management and Utilization

Description: Photograph of forestry lumber. A general view of a lumber yard and storage sheds at Herron lumber mill. Storage sheds and wood working rooms are laid out in a definite manner to make lumber easier to handle and store to reduce time and labor needed to produce the finished product. OK-413-11.
Date: November 28, 1956
Creator: McConnell, John
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Land Conservation, Management and Utilization

Description: Photograph of a saw mill. Head-saw in operation running out hardwood logs. This mill also has a gang saw for pine lumber. This country mill has a pay roll of $150.00 per day which adds to the forest economy of the district. Lee Swarts, shown here, marks all of his pine timber to be harvested on D-46 spacing, as recommended by the Soil Conservation Service, according to his agreement with the Little River Soil Conservation District. He manages 8000 acres of his own timber land. OK-412-7.
Date: November 26, 1956
Creator: McConnell, John
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society
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