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[Photograph 2012.201.B0077.0055]

Description: Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Unless he's watching closely, the motorist traveling SH 3 can easily miss the bumpy, dirt road that turns off 22 miles east of Idabel in McCurtain County and leads to America."
Date: March 15, 1975
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0288.0174]

Description: Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Moon Junior High School student Cynthia Herrod is intent as she reads her winning poem "Black Like Me" at Caf."
Date: April 15, 1972
Creator: Traverse, Cliff
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

US Government Land; Squatter families

Description: Photograph of a typical, run-down squatter's shack surrounded by overcut timberlands and eroded fields. Tenat works on Works Progress Administatration (WPA) projects for $2.32 a day. The monthly wage is approximately $15.00 a month. A garden of peas, sweet potatoes and other vegetables helps family eke out a meager existence. OK-8139.
Date: April 15, 1941
Creator: Jenkins, Elvin W.
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Land Conservation, Management and Utilization

Description: Photograph of a squatters' shack on 40 acres of land belonging to a firm of investment brokers. Tenants say they have cut 1000 pine poles from adjoining fields in the last two or three months. Two men cut about 20 cross-ties a day. High quality timber is thus being wastefully cut. With proper care this timber would provide high-grade, salable building material. This tract will revert to McCurtain County and will go on resale in May, 1941. OK-8140.
Date: April 15, 1941
Creator: Jenkins, Elvin W.
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

US Government Land; Squatter families

Description: Photograph of a typical, run-down squatter’s shack—surrounded by overcut timberland and eroded fields. The tenant works for the Works Progress Administration [WPA] earning $2.32 per day. The monthly wage is approximately $15. A garden of peas, sweet potatoes and other vegetables helps the family eke out a meager existence. OK-8139.
Date: April 15, 1941
Creator: Jenkins, Elvin W.
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

US Government Land; Squatter families

Description: Photograph of a run-down squatters’ shack in the Land Utilization [L.U.] project area. The only visible source of income is the sale of small amounts of stovewood derived from adjoining overcut woodlands. OK-8138.
Date: April 15, 1941
Creator: Jenkins, Elvin W.
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society
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