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BASEMENT BOX 67.0157

Description: Photograph taken during daylight of man spraying water from a hose onto a gas pump. The charred wreckage of a building burns in the background. Caption: "Turpin, Okla., April 19 - Firemen from Liberal, Kan., 10 miles north, arrived in time to prevent only the explosion of gasoline pumps and storage tanks in front of the Smith Motor Co. & Hardware which burned to the ground."
Date: May 25, 1956
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0237.0339]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Some folks look forward to Christmas, others to the Fourth of July, but to Mr. and Mrs. H. E. Cook the high point of the year is the annual Oklahoma Baptist general convention."
Date: November 12, 1952
Creator: Peterson, Richard
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0356.0006]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "T. L. Lemmons is servicing a car at the station where he started a general store in a tar paper shack 21 years ago. He has, in recent years, accepted the name Slapout for the village he originally hoped would be called Nye. (Located on U. S. 270 in Panhandle)"
Date: May 10, 1953
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B1092.0372]

Description: Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "The Beaver River, at Beaver, in May of 1955. The muddy flood rolling down the river is raising hopes for water-rationing Oklahoma City citizens, as the flow will move down the Beaver River, into the North Canadian, past Woodward, and toward OKC. View is taken from railroad bridge looking toward town of Beaver, and was taken as the crest lapped at the railroad ties."
Date: May 17, 1955
Creator: Campbell, Clyde
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B1092.0373]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "The Beaver River, at Beaver, in May of 1955. The muddy flood rolling down the river is raising hopes for water-rationing Oklahoma City citizens, as the flow will move down the Beaver River, into the North Canadian, past Woodward, and toward OKC. View is taken from railroad bridge looking toward town of Beaver, and was taken as the crest lapped at the railroad ties."
Date: May 17, 1955
Creator: Campbell, Clyde
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B1267.0416]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Beaver County agent Bill Strom, left, compares heads of standard grain sorghum with loose open head of commercial hybrid grown this year by Lyle Wheeler."
Date: October 14, 1956
Creator: Farmer-Stockman Photo
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B1267.0417]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "J. M. "Curley" Ives, extension district agent; Albert Hodges; Bill Strom, Beaver county agent; and Hodge's son, Albert Jr., examine a strand of sand love grass in sand dunes that a few years ago were bare of vegetation."
Date: November 23, 1956
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B1283.0513]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Miss Maude Thomas was Oklahoma's first newspaperwoman and she is living here today in the same city where she bought the newspaper, the Beaver Herald, in 1902."
Date: March 1, 1953
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

Soil Conditions

Description: Photograph of SCS Technician A. T. Elder shows part of long taproot of this 3 year old alfalfa. Moisture was found in soil at depth of 2 inches. Elder dug down 17 inches to get plant out and moisture was still present. Area has had less than 2 inches of rain since November 1952.
Date: April 21, 1953
Creator: Fox, Lester
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Ensilage

Description: Photograph of a crop that has just been watered out of gated pipe. This irrigation was made possible thru Great Plains Program. Mr. Deck is highly pleased with the crop being grown and the ease with which it can be ittigated-underground pipe installed under Great Plains Program.
Date: 1958~
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Bindweed Control

Description: Photograph of Ted Lehman, WJC, and Bill Storm, County Agent, examining an area treated for bindweed. Farmer applied Boroacu at the rate of 2300 pounds per acre in the Spring of 1953. A good kill was received except around the edges. Note size of area that has been out of production for three years. Bindweed is considered a serious problem in some areas of the High Plains. OK-138-4.
Date: August 25, 1955
Creator: Gamble, M. D.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Farming Equipment and Methods

Description: Photograph of land plowed in preparation for fall seeding. This operation of pulling a section harrow over land further reduces the size of clods, increasing the wind erosion hazards. Too much tillage is a problem that must be overcome in combatting wind erosion. Ted Lehman, WUC [Water Usage and Conservation] of Beaver, Oklahoma, says this is the "powder keg for blowing." OK-138-5.
Date: August 25, 1955
Creator: Gamble, M. D.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Farming Equipment and Methods

Description: Photograph of land plowed in preparation for fall seeding. This operation of pulling a section harrow over land further reduces the size of clods, increasing the wind erosion hazards. Too much tillage is a problem that must be overcome in combatting wind erosion. Ted Lehman, WUC [Water Usage and Conservation] of Beaver, Oklahoma, says this is the "powder keg for blowing." OK-138-5.
Date: August 25, 1955
Creator: Gamble, M. D.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society
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