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Barn

Description: Photograph of a barn made from the original logs of Fort Coffee, Fort Coffee, OK.
Date: January 19, 1953
Creator: Littleton, John
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

County Road Blocked by Flooding

Description: Photograph of a county road blocked by high water. This road has been blocked for 30 days and the water on both sides of the road has not drained or evaporated for 2 years. Cowpeas planted for a green pea crop have been drowned out. Approximately 400 acres of 5 farms effected by water as seen in photograph. Individual farmer can't do anything successfully about draining his land unless a master drainage plan is developed. Group drainage is needed. Soil units 9 and 15.
Date: July 24, 1958
Creator: McConnell, John
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Ernie Griffin

Description: Photograph is of a man wearing pants, hat and shoes with a tank top of a Navy military uniform holding a long stick that could be a walking stick while standing on some rocks and uneven terrain. Caption: "Ernie Griffin, Fanshawe, home on leave from the Navy, served as one of the guides for the photographer in finding the remote 40 acres in Pontotoc county where the terrain has been turned topsy-turvy."
Date: June 26, 1952
Creator: Burns, Bill
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

Exterior of St. Barnabas Episcopal Church

Description: Stone façade on metal quonset hut. Single front door, cross on right front, ladder on side of hut. Plans were being made to reestablish a mission in Poteau previous to 1959 but was not officially organized until 1959. There had been a mission in Poteau in 1914 but it was closed and sold during the Depression.
Date: 1959
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Episcopal Diocese of Oklahoma

Fescue Lodino Clover

Description: Photograph of fescue-lodino clover pasture planted in fall of 1956. Upland soil 5% slope. Has produced and still producing excellent pasture. Limed-fertilized-mamaged.
Date: November 4, 1959
Creator: Bryan, Hugo
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Fescue Lodino Clover Pasture

Description: Photograph of a Fescue-Ladino clover pasture planted in fall of 1956. Upland soil-5% slope, has produces and still producing excellent pasture. Lime-fertilized-managed.
Date: November 4, 1959
Creator: Bryan, Hugo
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Flooded County Road Near Tucker, Oklahoma

Description: Photograph of a flooded county road near Tucker, which has been blocked for 30 days due to poor drainage. The back of the photograph proclaims, “Flooding. County road blocked by high water. This road has been blocked for 30 days and the water on both sides of the road has not drained or evaporated for 2 years. Cowpeas planted for a green pea crop have been drowned out. Approximately 400 acres of 5 farms affected by water as seen in photograph. Individual farmer can’t do anything successfully ab… more
Date: July 24, 1958
Creator: McConnell, John
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Grass, Legume and Forb Cultivation

Description: Photograph of the baling sericea lespedeza on the Andrew J. Costner farm, 3 miles NW of Heavener, OK. Mr. Costner is a supervisor of the LeFlore County Soil Conservation District. Charles Nobles, custom hay baler, and Roy Erwin, Work Unit Conservationist of the Soil Conservation Service, checking the quality of the sericea lespedeza hay. Twenty acres of sericea lespedeza meadow produced 509 bales of top quality hay. OK-10-873-B.
Date: July 15, 1954
Creator: Gamble, M. D.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Grass, Legume and Forb Cultivation

Description: Photograph of Lee R. Carlton, work Unit Conservationist [WUC], Talihina, examining a field of lovegrass (erogratis curvula) and Sericea lespedeza. The mixture was planted on April 19, 1955 and fertilized with 100 pounds of 10-20-10 and 200 pounds of 0-20-0 fertilizers. Mowed on June 10, 1955 at 15 bales per acre. Potato Hill, 6 d, drouthy soil. This is an introductory planting of weeping lovegrass in this area. It looks promising. OK-72-10.
Date: July 7, 1955
Creator: Gamble, M. D.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Grass, Legume and Forb Cultivation

Description: Photograph of bailing sericea lespedeza hay. Mr. Andrew Costner, shown, is the supervisor of the LeFlore County Soil Conservation District. Hay is being baled by Charles Nobles, custom baler. This 20 acres of sericea hay meadow made 509 bales of hay on the first cutting. OK-10-873-A.
Date: July 15, 1954
Creator: Gamble, M. D.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Land Conservation, Management and Utilization

Description: Photograph of Johnny Lee and Kenneth Binns cutting pine trees into 12 foot poles. The Binns boys have worked in wood since they were large enough to work. For the past two years they have been learning conservation forestry practices from their father. This timber stand will be cut to D-46 spacing. OK-335-6.
Date: July 13, 1956
Creator: McConnell, John
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Multiflora Rose (2)

Description: Photograph of multiflora fence and hedge which was the first one planted in the district. Cecil Keylon, SCS, inspecting the condition of fence. This hedge is on the north side of a pine planting made in 1955. It is a good plant for fence, hedge and for wildlife cover.
Date: July 13, 1956
Creator: McConnell, John
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Multiflora Rose as a Fence (2)

Description: Photograph of Multiflora fence and hedge which was the first one planted in the district. Cecil Keylon, SCS, inspecting the condition of fence. This hedge is on the north side of a pine planting made in 1955. It is a good plant for fence, hedge and for wildlife cover.
Date: July 13, 1956
Creator: McConnell, John
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Multiflore Rose

Description: Photograph of Multiflora fence and hedge which was the first one planted in the district. Cecil Keylon, SCS, inspecting the condition of fence. This hedge is on the north side of a pine planting made in 1955. It is a good plant for fnce, hedge and for wildlife cover.
Date: July 13, 1956
Creator: McConnell, John
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0052.0862]

Description: Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "This Diesel locomotive of the Frisco passenger train ended up on top of the overturned Kansas City Southern freight engine after the two trains collided in eastern Oklahoma, Tuesday. Twenty-six person were injured. Twenty-six persons were reported injured Tuesday night after a Frisco passenger train bound for Monett, Mo., collided with a Kansas City Southern freight head-on seven miles south of Fort Smith jus… more
Date: December 31, 1952
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0121.0106]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "In this small community, made up mostly of modest frame structures, stands an historic marker of early Indian Territory days - a building referred to by the local residents as "the castle."
Date: 1959
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0224.0454]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "of a trip to Europe, Frank Chitwood, of Poteau who is working here this summer thanks Susan Myers, 8, of El Reno, the nearest thing to a little Dutch girl who could be found in Oklahoma."
Date: July 3, 1957
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0242.0296]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Elbert L. Costner, manager of U. S. Sen. Robert S. Kerr's interests in LeFlore county, serves also as president of the Poteau Chamber of Commerce."
Date: September 18, 1959
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0243.0600]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Lone Survivor, 6-year old male pointer owned by Dr. C. L. Calame of Jonesboro, Ark., is exercised by trainer Leon Covington of Poteau."
Date: March 16, 1952
Creator: Cobb, Richard
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society
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