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Badly Damaged Cotton Field

Description: Photograph of a cotton field which has been badly damaged wheee the salt Fork River cut across a bend. The field is now filled with scouring channels 10 to 15 feet wide and 2 feet deep. Other parts of the field is silted in from 2 to 18 inches.
Date: April 27, 1938
Creator: Slack, Jim
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Bank Sloughing from Flood

Description: Photograph of Section Line Road. Road is now abaandoned due to bank sloughing from flood on the Salt Fork River. About 35 feet of bank 220 yards long sloughed off in two days.
Date: May 26, 1938
Creator: Slack, Jim
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Bob Donelson, Jr. and Cowboy

Description: Photograph of Bob Donelson, Jr. on Cowboy, they entered the 100 mile race at the Miller Brothers' 101 Ranch, near Ponca City, OK, May 10-12, 1939.
Date: May 21, 1939
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific (RI) 2110

Description: A photograph print of Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific (CRIP, RI, or ROCK) 2110, 2-8-0 (AlcoSchenectady), Ponca City, OK. (Ex: SLSF 1285)
Date: May 7, 1939
Creator: George, Preston
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

Chikaskia River near Blackwell

Description: Photograph of laborers with shovels at the starting of a diversion dam on the Chikaskia River near Blackwell, Oklahoma. This project is for a water supply for the City of Blackwell.
Date: 1933~
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

Complete Loss

Description: Photograph of a wheat field which is completely covered with flood water from the Chickaskia River. This farmer lost his entire wheat crop due to this rise.
Date: April 23, 1938
Creator: Slack, Jim
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Contour Farming

Description: Photograph of winter picture of wheat drilled in on the contour with semi-deep furrow drill. Each furrow acts as a miniture terrace and holds ice and snow from blowing off of field. This conserves moisture for future use.
Date: November 20, 1937
Creator: Slack, Jim
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Deep Furrowed Wheat

Description: Photograph of deep furrowed wheat drilled on the contour and on the terraces. By using deep furrows on the wheat, two ends are accomplished. It is protected from "blowing out" and more moisture is conserved.
Date: February 4, 1937
Creator: Slack, Jim
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Dwight Howell 4-H Club Member with Wheat

Description: Photograph of Dwight Howell, a 4-H Club member, Kay County, Okla. Standing in a field of contour drilled wheat. In 1937 Dwight make $90.00 from 2.5 acres of wheat planted on the contour. Stillwater Project, Blackwell Camp.
Date: May 8, 1938
Creator: Hufnagle, Richard W.
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Federated Music Clubs of Oklahoma's Annual Meeting

Description: Photograph of contestants on Junior & Contest Day, 2nd District, Federated Music Clubs of Oklahoma's Annual Meeting, Blackwell, OK.
Date: 1932~/1934~
Creator: Underwood
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

Flooded Wheat Field

Description: Photograph of a wheat field on east edge of Blackwell which is flooded by waters from the Chickaskia River.
Date: April 23, 1938
Creator: Slack, Jim
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Flooded Wheatfield Outside of Blackwell

Description: Photograph of a wheatfield on east side of Blackwell which is flooded by waters from the Chickaskia River. Stillwater Project.
Date: April 23, 1938
Creator: Slack, Jim
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Flooding in Blackwell

Description: Photograph of the eastern edge of Blackwell, Oklahoma showing parts of city, highway, and valuable wheat land flooded by overflow waers from the Chickaskis River.
Date: May 20, 1938
Creator: Slack, Jim
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Grand Army of the Republic Annual Convention

Description: Photograph of the 43rd Grand Army of the Republic Annual Convention, Ponca City, OK. Photo by Clifford, Ponca City, OK, May 13, 1931.
Date: May 13, 1931
Creator: Clifford
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

Grand Army of the Republic Convention

Description: Large group of men. Handwritten caption, "43rd Annual Convention, Grand Army of the Republic, Ponca City, Okla, May 13, 1931. The Grand Army of the Republic (GAR) was a fraternal organization composed of veterans of the Union Army.
Date: May 13, 1931
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

Grand Army of the Republic Convention

Description: Photograph of 43rd Annual Grand Army of the Republic Convention, Ponca City, OK. Photo by C Hofford, Ponca City, OK, May 13, 1931.
Date: May 13, 1931
Creator: Hofford, C.
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

Grasshopper Damage To Corn Field on the J. O. Godwin Farm/Stillwater project/Blackwell Camp

Description: Photograph of grasshopper damage to the J. O. Godwin farm cornfield. The back of the photograph proclaims, "Stillwater project, Blackwell Camp. J. C. Godwin Farm SE ¼ of 23-26N-1W. Grasshopper damage in the Chiskiska [sic] river valley. This area normally produces from 50 to 65 bushels of corn per acre in an average year. For a close up view showing grasshoppers still on a stalk of corn in this field, see Okla-5355. In 1936 the locusts took everything their paths. This was a promising corn fiel… more
Date: July 27, 1935
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Grasshoppers on Corn Stalk on J. O. Godwin Farm

Description: Photograph of grasshoppers on a stalk of corn. The back of the photograph proclaims, “Grasshoppers standing on a stalk of corn after having eaten all the leaves off. For a general view of the field in which this stalk is located, see Okla-5356.”
Date: July 27, 1935
Creator: Hufnagle
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Group

Description: Photograph of two oil miners working a city lot oil well, in Blackwell, OK, with a note that reads, "Oklahoma has another oil boom, this time a series of backyard oil wells drilled on city lots on the edge of the residential section of Blackwell. Two of the oil 'miners' are shown working their well, which is the smallest in the world. The wells come in at an average depth of only twenty-three feet from an oil sand eighteen inches deep. The wells are being drilled with post augers and pumped by … more
Date: January 17, 1933
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

Home of Governor Marland

Description: Photograph of the former home of Governor Marland, he moved out in 1928, Ponca City, OK.
Date: July 19, 1938
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

Legumes

Description: Photograph of the Austrian winter peas crop on the School Land Farm operated by Perry Howell near Blackwell, Oklahoma. The use of winter cover crops is helping Howell to put into effect a complete program of erosion control on the farm he has leased for more than three decades. OK-6469.
Date: May 8, 1938
Creator: Hufnagle, Richard W.
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Murray Theatre

Description: Photograph of the inxterior of the Murray Theatre, Ponca City, OK.
Date: 1939~
Creator: Morton Harvey Studio
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

Murray Theatre

Description: Photograph of the inxterior of the Murray Theatre, Ponca City, OK.
Date: 1939~
Creator: Morton Harvey Studio
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

Murray Theatre

Description: Photograph of the exterior of the Murray Theatre, Ponca City, OK.
Date: 1939~
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society
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