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[Photograph 2012.201.B0414.0148]

Photograph taken for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper.
Date: October 10, 1943
Creator: unknown
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

V.A. Chadwick Farm

Photograph of a depleted cultivation field five years earlier which was replanted with native grasses. V.A. Chadwick Farm, 3 miles northwest of Purcell, McClain Co., OK. Photo by Elvin W. Jenkins, November 10, 1943.
Date: November 10, 1943
Creator: Jenkins, Elvin W.
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B1410.0332]

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "The same mall brought Miss Golda Williams of Purcell two letters from New Guinea and one from Oklahoma City. The letters from New Guinea were those she had written to her younger brother Pvt. James Edward Williams 24 years old. They were unopened and each bears the stamp "Deceased." The letter from Oklahoma City contained a blank application form for the WAAC."
Date: 1943
Creator: unknown
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Soil Improving Korean Lespedeza

Photograph of Carl Chastain kneeling in a field of soil improving Korean Lespedeza. The back of the photograph proclaims, "Carl Chastain in Korean Lespedeza utilized for soil improvement. This is the first year Korean Lespedeza has been used here and Chastain said "Where the oats and wheat were seeded with the Lespedeza the small grain grew 6" to 8" higher than in the other field."
Date: November 10, 1943
Creator: Jenkins, E. W.
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

G. C. Gardner and Ralph Shaver Standing in Shaver’s Four-Acre Field of Sweetclover That Yielded 300 Pounds of Seed

Photograph of G. C. Gardner and Ralph Shaver standing in Shaver's four-acre field of sweetclover that yielded 300 pounds of seed. People shown in photo go as followed from left to right: 1. G. C. Gardner, 2. Ralph Shaver. The back of the photograph proclaims, "4 Acre Field of Sweet Clover that yielded 300 lbs. of seed. G. C. Gardner, left and Ralph Shaver in the picture. Shaver says he has planted corn after sweet clover and experienced yield of 15 bushels more per acre than where clover was not grown. On another 7 acre sweet clover field where District Supervisor Shaver pastured 70 head of hogs for 3 months after shaver had pastured 2 milk cows from April 15 to October 15 October."
Date: November 9, 1943
Creator: Jenkins, E. W.
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History