[Photograph 2012.201.B0241.0231]

Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Oklahoma's Buddy Company"
Date: February 25, 1954
Creator: U.S. Marine Corps
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B1436.0728]

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "John G. Casady, Publisher, The Cheyenne Star."
Date: February 20, 1936
Creator: unknown
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Lowell Lawrence Males

Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Photo of Lowell Lawrence Males (L.L. Males).
Date: February 22, 1948
Creator: Killian, Thomas F.
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B0381.0148]

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Business and Professional Women's Club recently honored Mrs. Lorena Males, Cheyenne"
Date: February 22, 1977
Creator: Southerland, Paul B.
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Farm Homes

Photograph of a rock house when 50 years old as indicated by the date built as carved in stone over the door. J.T. Porter is in the photo. It was occupied in 1939. Mr. Lester Davis of Reydon, Oklahoma, has recently purchased this farm. OK-816-2.
Date: February 26, 1959
Creator: Whittington, Fred
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Water Conservation; Water Erosion; Flooding and Prevention

Photograph of severe overgrazing on the left adding to flood damage on an overflow plain. Two miles south of Strong City, Oklahoma. OK-7082.
Date: February 5, 1939
Creator: unknown
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Delta of Wild Horse Creek

Photograph of the delta of Wild Horse Creek, part of the Washita Flood Control Survey. Sand was carried down and deposited on fertile field. Wind is now making dunes and forbidding cultivation.
Date: February 5, 1939
Creator: unknown
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Road Threatened by the Washita River

Photograph of a road threatened by the Washita River. The river has cut toward the road eighty feet in two years.
Date: February 5, 1939
Creator: unknown
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Rapid Bank Cutting

Photograph of the current being held against the bank by sand deposits, causing rapid bank cutting.
Date: February 4, 1939
Creator: unknown
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Broad Sandy Bank of the Washita (2)

Photograph of a view of a broad sandy bed of the Washita River, 5 miles south of Strong City, Okla.
Date: February 4, 1939
Creator: unknown
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Wind Erosioin on Cultivated Sand

Photograph of wind erosiion on cultivated sand at headwaters of Broken Leg Creek.
Date: February 5, 1939
Creator: unknown
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Wooded Stream Bank

Photograph of a wooded stream bank 3.5 miles below Cheyenne, Okla. Tree species is populis sargentii or the Plains Cottonwood.
Date: February 5, 1939
Creator: unknown
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B0409.0729]

Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Grisly reminders of Cheyenne's bloody Battle of the Washita are on display in the window of the weekly Cheyenne Star."
Date: February 20, 1959
Creator: unknown
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B0409.0983]

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "The Black Kettle Museum has artifacts from the Battle of the Washita and items relating to Plains Indian culture."
Date: February 26, 1983
Creator: unknown
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B0395.0257]

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Amanda Metcalfe, Durham, Oklahoma's painter of the Old West, and baritone Orcenith Smith of the University of Oklahoma will share program honors when the MacDowell club opens its season October 7 with a luncheon at the Oklahoma City Golf and Country Club."
Date: February 9, 1957
Creator: Cobb, Richard
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Sand Bar In the Washita River

Photograph of a sand bar containing 18,000 cubic yards of sand. Washta River, two miles south of Strong City, Oklahoma.
Date: February 5, 1939
Creator: unknown
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Stream Widening by Wind Erosion

Photograph of a stream bed of the Washita. The sand filled stream is being widened by wind erosion.
Date: February 4, 1939
Creator: unknown
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Broad Sandy Bank of the Washita

Photograph of a view of a broad sandy bed of the Washita River, 5 miles south of Strong City, Okla.
Date: February 4, 1939
Creator: unknown
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Native Pasture Land

Photograph of native Pasture land at the head of Sgt. Major Creek.
Date: February 5, 1939
Creator: unknown
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Sand Filled Creek

Photograph of the sand filled bed of Dead Indian Creek. This creek has moved to the left since its channel was choked with sand.
Date: February 5, 1939
Creator: unknown
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Debris

Photograph of debris caught in small bridge across the Washita River, three miles northeast of Cheyenne, Oklahoma.
Date: February 5, 1939
Creator: unknown
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Farming Equipment and Methods

Photograph of Allen Isaac seeding mixture of native grass on Oscar Flick farm, good sorghum cover. OK-815-10.
Date: February 17, 1959
Creator: Perryman, Tom
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Farming Equipment and Methods

Photograph of terrace maintennance. Showing terrace harrowed [i.e., as using a harrow plow] to simulate appearance after plowed out channel has been settled by rain. Notice the changed slope of the channel as indicated by the ropes. The cross-sectional area of the channel has been increased by 3.9 square feet. OK-8117-B.
Date: February 18, 1941
Creator: Jenkins, Elvin W.
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Farm Homes

Photograph of a rock house built in 1909, with the date carved in stone over the door. J.T. Porter is the person in the photo. The house was occupied in 1939. Lester Davis has recently purchased this farm.OK-816-3.
Date: February 26, 1959
Creator: Whittington, Fred
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History