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Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific (RI) 1711 & 2062

Description: A photograph print of Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific (CRIP, RI, or ROCK) 1711, 2-8-0 (Alco/Brooks, class C41), in the storage yard at Shawnee, OK. Photo shows an overview of the engine yard adjacent to roundhouse and engine overhaul shops. At the time, this was only one of two lcomotive shops in the RI system, the other being at Silvis, IL. [Loco in foreground is probably 2062. See 2008.008.6233]
Date: March 7, 1937
Creator: George, Preston
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

Hairy Vetch and Rye Cover and Soil Improvement

Description: Photograph of an UNIDENTIFIED man kneeling in a field with significant cover and soil improvement six miles north of DeLeon. The back of the photograph proclaims, "Cover and soil Improvement. Left, mixed planting of hairy vetch and rye following cow peas, and right, following corn. (See Tex-41-375 and Tex-41-376.)"
Date: March 7, 1944
Creator: Jenkins, E. W.
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society
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