Cardin, OK

Photograph of a bird's eye view of Tar River, OK (Cardin, OK), printed c. 1917.
Date: unknown
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Postcard
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B0124.0056]

Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Fred Cardin."
Date: unknown
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B0124.0057]

Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Fred Cardin"
Date: unknown
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B0400.0412]

Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "PREPARING to descend into a mine near Cardin late Wednesday afternoon is rescue worker with lunch buckets for men battling to remove ton of rock which trapped two men Wednesday."
Date: 1962
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B0400.0413]

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "More than 200 tons of rock crashed on a crew of zinc miners Wednesday and hours later two of the men were presumed dead."
Date: 1962
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B1257.0479]

Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Mrs. Spoon primps before the mirror while her husband rests in easy chair in the comfortable living room of their mill home."
Date: 1958
Creator: Sparlin, Orrick
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B1257.0480]

Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Mr. and Mrs. Charles Spoon and their home."
Date: December 8, 1958
Creator: Sparlin, Orrick
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Woodchuck Mine

Photograph of the Woodchuck Mine, Cardin, OK.
Date: unknown
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Tub Hookers

Scan of a postcard showing tub hookers in the Woodchuck Mine, Cardin, OK.
Date: unknown
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Postcard
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

"Lucky-Kid" Zinc Mine

Photograph of the "Lucky-Kid" Zinc Mine at Century, near Tar River, Cardin, OK. Printed c. 1917.
Date: unknown
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Postcard
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B1295.0465]

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Workmen are dwarfed by 'King of the Lode, ' the world's largest two-axle dump truck recently completed by Wiseda Ltd. at its factory near Cardin in northeastern Oklahoma."
Date: April 2, 1982
Creator: McDaniel, David
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Lead-Zinc Mining

Photograph of a sign on Eagles-Picher Slimes Pond planting near Cardin, Oklahoma. View from the south side of fields five and six. OK-3194-5.
Date: September 5, 1968
Creator: Bennett, K. C.
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B1275.0451]

Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company.
Date: July 10, 1986
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Lead-Zinc Mining

Photograph of a sign on Eagles-Picher Slimes Pond planting near Cardin, Oklahoma. View from the south side of fields five and six. OK-3194-6.
Date: September 5, 1968
Creator: Hill, Earnest
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Lead-Zinc Mining

Photograph of Slimes Pond, Eagle-Pichers Mine, Picher, Oklahoma. Weeping Lovegrass broadcast seeded on 3-20-67 on blow drigt along snow fence north end of fields 1, 2, 3. Broadcast fertilized 400 pounds 10-20-10 per year at planting time. West end (foreground) top-dressed 300 pounds per year of 10-20-10 fertilizer on 10 August 1976. Overseeded with native grass mixture (Vinita harvest) 3-26-68. OK-3013-9.
Date: April 1, 1968
Creator: Bennett, K. C.
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Lead-Zinc Mining

Photograph of Slimes Pond, Eagle-Pichers Mine, Picher, Oklahoma. Field # 9 with hay mulch applied on 4-1-68. This 0.8 acre area was first seeded to a mixture of native grasses assembled by the Manhattan Plant Materials Center. It was then mulched with prairie hay at 3 tons per acre. This was anchored with an IMCO disc treader (mulch tiller) pulled from a farm row tractor. Note the water standing where tractor tires force the parched water table to the surface. 250 pound 10-20-10 fertilizer top-dressed immediately after mulching. OK-3013-16.
Date: April 1, 1968
Creator: Bennett, K. C.
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Lead-Zinc Mining

Photograph of Slimes Pond, Eagle-Pichers Mine, Picher, Oklahoma. Cover of annual rye drilled 9-25-67 on blow drift area north of fields 1, 2, 3 between snow fences. Fertilized with 250 pounds of 10-20-10 fertilizer per year at planting time. Top-dressed with 250 pounds of 33-0-0 fertilizer per year in February 1968. Broadcast seeded to Big Sandreed (Calamovilfa gigantea) and broadcast fertilized with 400 pounds of 33-0-0 fertilizer per year on 3-26-68. Seed and fertilizer not covered. OK-3013-3.
Date: April 1, 1968
Creator: Bennett, K. C.
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Lead-Zinc Mining--Evaluation of Plantings

Photograph of the area around the Eagle-Pichers Mine, Picher, Oklahoma. Slimes Pond Evaluation of plantings in Commerce, Oklahoma. This is a view of the IMCO mulch tiller manufactured by the Independent Manufacturing Company, Neodasha, Kansas, as used on the Eagle-Picher Slimes Pond hay mulching operation. Note the iron which weighs some 60 to 70 pounds each. These served to put pressure on the treader adequate to press hay into sand. Three tons of hay mulch per year were applied and anchored following the planting of a native grass seed mixture prepared by the Soil Conservation Service Plant Materials Center, Manhattan, Kansas. OK-3013-6.
Date: April 1, 1968
Creator: Bennett, K. C.
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Lead-Zinc Mining--Evaluation of Plantings

Photograph of the area around the Eagle-Pichers Mine, Picher, Oklahoma. Slimes Pond Evaluation of plantings in Commerce, Oklahoma. This is a view of the IMCO mulch tiller manufactured by the Independent Manufacturing Company, Neodasha, Kansas, as used on the Eagle-Picher Slimes Pond hay mulching operation. Note the iron which weighs some 60 to 70 pounds each. These served to put pressure on the treader adequate to press hay into sand. Three tons of hay mulch per year were applied and anchored following the planting of a native grass seed mixture prepared by the Soil Conservation Service Plant Materials Center, Manhattan, Kansas. OK-3013-5.
Date: April 1, 1968
Creator: Bennett, K. C.
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Lead-Zinc Mining--Evaluation of Plantings

Photograph of the area around the Eagle-Pichers Mine, Picher, Oklahoma. Slimes Pond Evaluation of plantings in Commerce, Oklahoma. Field # 9 with hay mulch applied on 4-1-68. This 0.8 acre area was first seeded to a mixture of native grasses assembled by the Manhattan Plant Materials Center. It was then mulched with prairie hay at 3 tons per acre. This was anchored with an IMCO disc treader (mulch tiller) pulled from a farm row tractor. Note the water standing where tractor tires force the parched water table to the surface. 250 pound 10-20-10 fertilizer top-dressed immediately after mulching. OK-3013-16.
Date: April 1, 1968
Creator: Bennett, K. C.
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Farming Equipment and Methods

Photograph of Field # 9 with hay mulch applied on 4-1-68. This 0.8 acre area was first seeded to a mixture of native grasses assembled by the Manhattan Plant Materials Center. It was then mulched with prairie hay at 3 tons per acre. This was anchored with an IMCO disc treader (mulch tiller) pulled from a farm row tractor. Note the water standing where tractor tires force the parched water table to the surface. 250 pound 10-20-10 fertilizer top-dressed immediately after mulching. OK-3013-16.
Date: April 1, 1968
Creator: Bennett, K. C.
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Lead-Zinc Mining

Photograph of Slimes Pond, Eagle-Pichers Mine, Picher, Oklahoma. Field #7 after traffic during operation of applying native grass mixture and topdressing of fertilizer. This 3.13 acre field was drilled to Balboa rye on 9-25-67 and fertilized with 250 pounds of 10-20-10 fertilizer. Top-dressed with 250 pounds of 33-0-0 fertilizer on February 1968. Rye stand yellowing on 3-25-67. On 3-25-68 this was gone over with a rotary hoe, then seeded to native grass mixture (south 150’ Vinita harvest) remainder of field to a Manhattan Plant Materials Center mixture. A top-dressing of 300 pounds of 33-0-0 fertilizer was applied in early April. OK-3013-7.
Date: April 1, 1968
Creator: Bannett, K. C.
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Farming Equipment and Methods

Photograph of Field # 2, Series 7. Milo [i.e., sorghum] residues from plantings made on 5-11-67. These rows were fertilized with 200 pounds per year of 10-20-10 fertilizer (1st 4 rows left to right) and 400 pounds per year for the next two rows and 200 pounds per year for the next two rows. These rows were side-dressed with 50 pounds of 33-0-0 in 6-67 on all of two rows and two rows half way. On 3-25-68 a native grass mixture (Vinita harvest) was interseeded, hand broadcast and hand-raked to cover. The east half of these rows were broadcast fertilized with 200 pounds of 33-0-0 per year and the west half with 200 pounds of 10-20-10 per year. OK-3013-12.
Date: April 1, 1968
Creator: Bannett, K. C.
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Lead-Zinc Mining

Photograph of Slimes Pond, Eagle-Pichers Mine, Picher, Oklahoma. Field # 2, Series 7. Milo [i.e., sorghum] residues from plantings made on 5-11-67. These rows were fertilized with 200 pounds per year of 10-20-10 fertilizer (1st 4 rows left to right) and 400 pounds per year for the next two rows and 200 pounds per year for the next two rows. These rows were side-dressed with 50 pounds of 33-0-0 in 6-67 on all of two rows and two rows half way. On 3-25-68 a native grass mixture (Vinita harvest) was interseeded, hand broadcast and hand-raked to cover. The east half of these rows were broadcast fertilized with 200 pounds of 33-0-0 per year and the west half with 200 pounds of 10-20-10 per year. OK-3013-12.
Date: April 1, 1968
Creator: Bannett, K. C.
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History