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Farming Equipment and Methods

Description: Photograph of crop rotation, terracing and contour cultivation. The terrace was built in 1940. Two rows of sorghum, one row of peas, and cotton on the left. Cotton will average ¾ of bale per acre and the cooperator says he would not have made more than ½ bale per acre without the terraces. Mr. C. H. Lewis is picking peas between corn rows. OK-8261.
Date: September 26, 1941
Creator: Jenkins, Elvin W.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0283.0018]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Walter Haggard, Pittsburg county sheriff, displays the razor which convicts held at the throat of Warden Jess Dunn as they passed through a penitentiary gate Sunday in a frustrated effort to escape."
Date: August 10, 1941
Creator: Kaho, C. J.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B1013.0409]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "This is the exterior view of the east gate at the Oklahoma State Penitentiary at McAlester through which convicts marched Warden Jess Dunn Sunday in an effort to escape which ended in the death of the warden, two convicts and Tab Ford, former prison guard."
Date: August 10, 1941
Creator: Kaho, C. J.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B1013.0464]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "A closeup of the impassable bridge, scene of the bloody gunfights that ended the break from the prison. The single X marks the spot where a convict bullet put an end to the life of tab Ford, former deputy sheriff of Pittsburg and former prison guard and volunteer posseman. The double X's mark the spot where two convicts lying in ditch were killed by William E. Alexander, Pittsburg county deputy sheriff."
Date: August 10, 1941
Creator: Kaho, C. J.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0383.0723]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "John Leonard "Pepper" Martin, the immortal "Wild Horse of the Osage" of the old St. Louis cardinals gas house gang, is keeping busy working on his 960-acre ranch a mile south of Featherston-west of Quinton."
Date: November 4, 1941
Creator: Owen, A. Y.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B1048.0292]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "The broncs were at their bucking best for the state penitentiary rodeo at McAlester Saturday,but some of the prison's convict cowboys,like this one,bucked and twisted and turned and stayed right with them-well,for a little while anyway."
Date: September 20, 1941
Creator: Turner, John H.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0294B.0524]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "A murder charge was filed t McAlester Friday against Hurley Lee Holmes, 17-year-old farm youth, for the shotgun slaying Thursday of his father, George Washington Holmes, 58 years old, at their home three miles southwest of Quinton."
Date: 1941
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society
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