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[Photograph 2012.201.B0138.0343]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "The farm has an aura of something that survived there, and the Cobles did stay on that rented land through the Depression and into the 1950s."
Date: August 17, 1989
Creator: Argo, Jim
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

UNIDENTIFED man Seeding a Field in Land in Conservation Reserve of the Soil Bank

Description: Photograph of a UNIDENTFIED man drilling sideoats grama, blue grama, sand lovegrass, and switch grass into a failed sorghum field growing in conservation reserve of the soil bank. The back of the photograph proclaims, "Land in Conservation Reserve of the Soil Bank. ¼ section; 630 acres have been seeded. Drills owned by SCS district. Seven pounds of side oats [sic] and blue grama, one-pound sand love; ½ switch grass. Returning from cultivation for five years, sorghum did not make a crop so it wa… more
Date: January 17, 1957
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society
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