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[Photograph 2012.201.B1062.0407]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "William H. "Billy" Prescott, 35, saved from execution in 1935 by an order from the Supreme Court ... he is still serving a life sentence at the state penitentiary in McAlester, but claims innocence concerning a murder in Muskogee County in April, 1933. Prescott's parents died when he was young, and the orphan from Fort Worth eventually made his way to Muskogee County, Oklahoma."
Date: October 26, 1951
Creator: Johnson, Bill
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

H. Mead Norton & Ti Ranch Range Improvement

Description: Photograph of two fields, separated with barbed wire fence, with the left side receiving fertilizer treatment of 2-4-5-T in June of 1956 & 1957 and deferred from grazing. The owner did not apply fertilizer or defer grazing on the field on the right. Four cows are standing in the field on the right. The back of the photograph proclaims, "Excellent condition of native grass left of fence has been accomplished by treating brush and deferred grazing. The pasture to the left of the fence was sprayed… more
Date: October 18, 1957
Creator: Lowe, G. N.
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

H. Mead Norton & Ti Ranch Range Improvement

Description: Photograph of two fields, separated with barbed wire fence, with the left side receiving fertilizer treatment of 2-4-5-T in June of 1956 & 1957 and deferred from grazing. The owner did not apply fertilizer or defer grazing on the field on the right. Four cows are standing in the field on the right. The back of the photograph proclaims, "Excellent condition of native grass left of fence has been accomplished by treating brush and deferred grazing. The pasture to the left of the fence was sprayed… more
Date: October 18, 1957
Creator: Lowe, G. N.
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

H. Mead Norton & Ti Ranch Range Improvement

Description: Photograph of two fields, separated with barbed wire fence, with the left side receiving fertilizer treatment of 2-4-5-T in June of 1956 & 1957 and deferred from grazing. The owner did not apply fertilizer or defer grazing on the field on the right. Four cows are standing in the field on the right. The back of the photograph proclaims, "Excellent condition of native grass left of fence has been accomplished by treating brush and deferred grazing. The pasture to the left of the fence was sprayed… more
Date: October 18, 1957
Creator: Lowe, G. N.
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Land Clearance, Cultivation & Brush and Weed Control

Description: Photograph of range improvement, H. Mead Norton, Ti Ranch. Excellent condition of native grass to the left of the fence has been accomplished by treating brush and deferred grazing. The pasture to the left of the fence was sprayed by airplane in June, 1956, with 2 pounds of 2-4-5T herbicide per acre, and again with 1 poind per acre in June, 1957. The pasture was not grazed after spraying until frost arrived. The pasture on the right has not received treatment and has been badly overgrazed. OK-5… more
Date: October 18, 1957
Creator: Lowe, G. N.
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Range Improvement

Description: Photograph of excellent condition of native grass left of fence has been accomplished by treating brush and deferred grazing. The pasture to the left of the fence was sprayed by airplane in June of 1956 with 2 lbs. of 2-4-5-T per acre, and again with 1 lb. per acre in June of 1957. The pasture was not grazed after spraying until frost. Pasture on right has not received treatment and has been badly overgrazed.
Date: October 18, 1957
Creator: Lowe, G. N.
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Grass, Legume and Forb Cultivation

Description: Photograph of grazing cows; range improvement. Excellent condition of native grass left of fence has been accomplished by treating brush and by deferred grazing. The pasture to the left of the fence was sprayed by airplane in June of 1956 with 2 pounds of 2-4-5-T herbicide per acre, and again with 1 pound per acre in June of 1957. The pasture was not grazed after spraying until frost. Pasture on the right has not received treatment and has been badly overgrazed.
Date: October 18, 1957
Creator: Lowe, George
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

[BASEMENT BOX 67.0178]

Description: Photograph is of two gasoline pumps with a destroyed building behind them. Around the remains are bushes and trees. Photograph was taken in the day time. Caption: "McAlester - Outbreak of violence in a convict camp in the Weathers community will mean "immediate , permanent" abandonment of the trusty work site there, McAlester penitentiary warden H. C. McLeod indicated Monday."
Date: October 20, 1958
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0229.0333]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "A prison work camp at Pittsburg county's Boling Hollow dam site was being dismantled Monday, and echoes of violence erupting there Saturday reverberated from the state capitol to the McAlester courthouse."
Date: October 20, 1958
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society
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