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BASEMENT BOX 67.0380

Description: crowd watching fire being put out, daytime. Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Volunteer fireman are attempting to cool debris in what a short time earlier was an up-to-date lumber company office and showroom with building materials in the rear of the long building."
Date: October 4, 1957
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

BASEMENT BOX 67.0381

Description: Guymon Fire department truck and fire fighters at end of daytime fire. Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "The north side of the fire-razed Guymon Lumber Co., with the bordering row of scorched trees attesting to the intense heat involved."
Date: October 4, 1957
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

BASEMENT BOX 67.0382

Description: Fire fighters on top and by burning remnants of a building,daytime. Photograph taken for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Of what was once the two-story building of the Guymon Lumber Co., are firemen from Hooker , Texhoma and Guymon."
Date: October 4, 1957
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

Caddo Switch Field

Description: Photograph of Mr. Tom Wright in his Caddo Switchgrass field.
Date: October 7, 1957
Creator: Engleman, Jack
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Capri Hotel Acct.

Description: Photograph of Capri Fine Foods. Photo by Meyers Photo Shop for the Capri Hotel Acct., Oct. 1957.
Date: October 1957
Creator: Meyers Photo Shop
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

Civic Center

Description: Photo of the exterior of the Municipal Auditorium now known as the Civic Center located at 201 N. Dewey Avenue in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. There is a sign across the top of the building that says "Welcome OEA." There are three school buses parked in front of the building. One of them has International Harvester painted on the side. There are cars and individuals posed in front of the building and buses. The photo was taken for the North American Insurance Company account.
Date: October 1957
Creator: Meyers Photo Shop
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

Clean Tilled Land vs Crop Residue Management

Description: Photograph of this is a contrast picture. The St. Paul silt loam has been planted to wheat on clean tilled land. Many of Northwest Oklahoma's seasons are too droughty and windy. A wind storm will damage this land and cause the farmer to loose his stand of wheat.
Date: October 3, 1957
Creator: Fanning, Carl
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Crop Residue Management Pays

Description: Photograph of a part of the wheat straw has been left on the surface to protect this St. Paul silt loam from blowing. Wheat has been planted in the stubble. This land will not be damaged when the spring winds blow.
Date: October 3, 1957
Creator: Steers, Carter
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Erosion

Description: Photograph of erosion on Enterprise loam 5 to 8% slopes. Showing erosion that occurs when this soil is left bare and unprotected.
Date: October 3, 1957
Creator: Fenning
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Erosion

Description: Photograph of Erosion on Nobscott-Brownfield Soils. Severely eroded phase. Erosional condition on a mistreated soil.
Date: October 3, 1957
Creator: Fenning
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

First Lutheran Church in Oklahoma City

Description: Photograph of the First Lutheran Church and a Safeway store on Robinson Avenue in downtown Oklahoma City.
Date: October 1957
Creator: Meyers Photo Shop
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

General Electric Acct.

Description: Photograph of group of people in Oklahoma City, OK. Photo taken by Meyers Photo Shop for the General Electric Acct., Oct. 1957.
Date: October 1957
Creator: Meyers Photo Shop
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

Giant Reed Grass and Dune Stabilization

Description: Photograph of giant reed grass in stabilizing an active dune. A hat sits in the middle of the photo. The back of the photograph proclaims, “Stabilization. The first step in stabilizing an active dune. Giant Reed grass has a good start and will help to hold sand.”
Date: October 3, 1957
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Grass, Legume and Forb Cultivation

Description: Photograph of seeding native grass for seed production. Windrowing Caddo switchgrass planted in the spring of 1957. Planted on irrigated land for seed production as a cash crop. Tillman County Soil Conservation District (SCD) assisted with the planting of the grass. OK-577-12.
Date: October 29, 1957
Creator: Woodward, Grant
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Grass, Legume and Forb Cultivation

Description: Photograph of seeding native grass for seed production. Combining Coronado sideoats grama planted for seed production. Planted in the spring of 1956 on irrigated land as a cash crop. Planted with the assitance of Tillman County Soil Conservation District (SCD). OK-577-6.
Date: October 30, 1957
Creator: Woodward, Grant
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Grass, Legume and Forb Cultivation

Description: Photograph of the harvesting of grass. Harvesting native grass seed with self-propelled combines. The meadow has been managed properly and condition maintained. Estimated yield of the combine run of seed was 100 pounds per acre. Ranch planned and range managed in cooperation with the Soil Conservation Service. OK-572-1.
Date: October 17, 1957
Creator: McClung, Forrest
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Grass, Legume and Forb Cultivation

Description: Photograph of harvesting seed. Harvesting native grass seed. Predominately Little Bluestem with mixtures of Switch, Little Blue and Indiangrass. Eswtimated yield of 100 pounds per acre. Air dried. OK-571-12.
Date: October 17, 1957
Creator: McClung, Forrest
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Grass, Legume and Forb Cultivation

Description: Photograph of the seeding of native grass for seed production. Combining Coronado sideoats planted for seed production. Planted in the spring of 1957 on irrigated land. Planted for seed production as a cash crop. Yield approx. 300 pounds per acre. OK-577-11.
Date: October 30, 1957
Creator: Woodward, Grant
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Grass, Legume and Forb Cultivation

Description: Photograph of the seeding of native grass for seed production. Harvesting Caddo switchgrass planted as a cash crop on irrigated land. Planted for seed production as a seed crop. Yield approximately 300 pounds per acre. OK-577-10.
Date: October 30, 1957
Creator: Woodward, Grant
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Grass, Legume and Forb Cultivation

Description: Photograph of the seeding of native grass for seed production. Combining sideoats grama planted for seed production. Planted in the spring of 1956 on irrigated land as a cash crop. Planted with the assistance from the Tillman County Soil Conservation Distrinct [SCD]. OK-577-9.
Date: October 30, 1957
Creator: Woodward, Grant
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Grass, Legume and Forb Cultivation

Description: Photograph of seeding native seed grass for seed production. Windrowing Caddo switchgrass planted in the spring of 1957. Planted on irrigated land for seed production as a cash crop. Tillman County Soil Conservation District [SCD] assisted with planting this grass. OK-577-12.
Date: October 29, 1957
Creator: Woodward, Grant
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Grass, Legume and Forb Cultivation

Description: Photograph of seeding native seed grass for seed production. Combining Coronado sideoats grama planted for seed production. Planted in the spring of 1956 on irrigated land as a cash crop. Tillman County Soil Conservation District [SCD] assisted with planting this grass. OK-577-7.
Date: October 29, 1957
Creator: Woodward, Grant
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Grass, Legume and Forb Cultivation

Description: Photograph of the harvesting of Caddo switchgrass planted as a cash crop on irrigated land. Yield is about 300 pounds per acre. Planted in the spring of 1957 at a rate of 1.5 pounds per acre with the assitance from Tillman County Soil Conservation District [SCD]. OK-577-3.
Date: October 29, 1957
Creator: Woodward, Grant
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Grass, Legume and Forb Cultivation

Description: Photograph of weeping lovegrass. Cattle grazing on weeping lovegrass that was seeded in the spring of 1955. A seed crop was taken in 1957 then the grass was cut for hay in July 1957. This growth that is on the ground now, was produced since the hay crop was removed. OK-567-10.
Date: October 8, 1957
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society
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