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[Photograph 2012.201.B0292.0269]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Watie Davault, for 47 years mayor of this Sequoya County town of 271 residents, finally has decided politics aren't the challenge they once were."
Date: December 28, 1961
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

Flood Damage From the Arkansas River

Description: Photograph of soil washing and deposition on good bottom land, Scass II Soil Unit 4. Pot holes, drift wood and deposition from Arkansas River overflow. This land should be retired or it will need expensive leveling and cleaning job to put it back into condition for farming.
Date: July 28, 1957
Creator: McConnell, John
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Rover Bank Flood Damage

Description: Photograph of flood damage from high water on the Arkansas River. Banks continuously being cut back into good bottom land field by flow of flood water. This flood water has already washed out 350 acres of this field completely as the river changed its course.
Date: July 28, 1957
Creator: McConnell, John
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Flood Damage

Description: Photograph of a pot hole in a cultivated field caused by flood water overflowing good bottom land from high water on Arkansas River. This land should be retired from cropland or will need and expensive leveling and cleaning job to put it back into condition for farming.
Date: July 28, 1957
Creator: McConnell, John
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society
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