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Abandoned Land by Improper Farming Conditions

Description: Photograph of an area in the center of this picture showing an area of abandoned land due to improper farming conditions in which the gullies average 10 feet deep and you can see how these gullies are rapidly encroaching upon the cultivated areas directly adjacent to this area. In a few short years none of this land will be available for farming. Konawa Camp, Ardmore Project.
Date: September 30, 1936
Creator: Slack
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Alice B. Davis and missionaries

Description: Photograph of Alice B. Davis with Seminole Indian Missionaries after their return from Florida to Wewoka, OK. L to R: George Scott, Lucy Scott, UNKNOWN, UNKNOWN, A. J. Brown, Mrs. A. J. Brown, Dan Long, UNKNOWN, Lucy Brown (Later Mrs. Barney Mckelley), UNKNOWN (Seated), Alice Brown Davis (Standing), Irene Davis (Later Mrs. W. S. Key), Lizzie Brunner, UNKNOWN, and UNKNOWN, c.1909.
Date: 1909~
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

BASEMENT BOX 67.0095

Description: Photograph taken during daylight of flaming structural wreckage during a fire. Caption: "An early morning fire swept through a business block in Sasakwa and destroyed approximately half of the retail establishments in this city of 500 residents."
Date: October 11, 1952
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[BASEMENT BOX 67.0389]

Description: Photograph is of several unidentified men putting a fire out in the inside of a hay barn. The front doors are open and a fire pump truck is parked in front of the barn. Fire hoses are running along the ground to other parts of the building. Caption: "Burning trash which blew from the barrel in right foreground was blamed for starting a $25,000 hay fire on the Carl Jackson place two miles northwest of Seminole Sunday."
Date: January 14, 1954
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

BASEMENT BOX 67.0391

Description: Photograph taken during daylight of firemen extinguishing a fire. Caption: "Seminole firemen direct tons of water on a $25,000 hay fire on the Carl Jackson place one mile northwest of Seminole."
Date: January 5, 1954
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[BASEMENT BOX 67.0392]

Description: Photograph is of a barn overtaken by smoke. A fire pump truck is parked in front of the structure. Photograph is taken in the day time. Caption: "Smoke obscures all but a dim outline of a huge hay barn on the Carl Jackson place northwest of Seminole as the fire reaches a peak."
Date: January 14, 1954
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

BASEMENT BOX 67.0451

Description: Man with fire hose putting out hot spots on a fire, Night time. Photograph taken for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "More than a hundred Maud residents volunteered in helping ten firefighting units from seven towns put out main street blaze which roared out of control early Monday."
Date: January 31, 1965
Creator: Garner, Frank
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

BASEMENT BOX 67.0452

Description: Three youths helping putting out fire at night with fire hose. Photograph taken for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Maud volunteers included these high school boys fighting fire that leveled five stores in six buildings on main street."
Date: January 31, 1965
Creator: Garner, Frank
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

BASEMENT BOX 67.0585

Description: Photograph taken during daylight of smoke billowing from a building fire. There is a fire truck nearby. Caption: "Smoke pours from windows of Harper Mattress and Furniture Co. building."
Date: December 13, 1961
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

BASEMENT BOX 67.0626

Description: Photograph of charred building interior decimated by fire. Caption: "This door Thursday framed destruction of the Seminole Motor Sales Co. warehouse in Seminole after flames swept through the structure Wednesday afternoon, leaving more than $100,000 damages."
Date: unknown
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

Bermuda grass Management

Description: Photograph of two year old (common) Bermuda grass planting. Top dressed with 120 pounds ammonium nitrate per acre with spreader. Note the difference in growth and the light strips where spreader failed to overlap. Soil Conservation Service program started in 1953 on this farm.
Date: March 24, 1958
Creator: Chelf, John
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Bermuda grass Planting

Description: Photograph of Bermuda grass roots being raked with side-delivery rake. The digging area is raked several times to get the maximum amount of roots.
Date: May 16, 1956
Creator: Chelf, John
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Bermuda Grass Roots Being Loaded on a Truck

Description: Photograph of Bermuda grass roots being loaded on a truck from the windrow. After roots are loaded on the truck, they are watered and protected from sun and wind. This helps to keep roots in good live condition until they are planted. Shown loading roots: left, farm laborer, center, Doyle Able, SCD; right, Mr. Streeter, SCD cooperator.
Date: May 16, 1956
Creator: Chelf, John
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Big Wewoka Creek

Description: Photograph of Big Wewoka Creek flood detention site No. 29. Looking south toward dam. Flood detention reservoir in background. Water in permanent pool covers 18 surface acres.
Date: March 24, 1958
Creator: Abel, D. G.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society
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