[Photograph 2012.201.B0319.0660]

Photograph taken for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Director Keeps Directing ; Frank Edmondson, left, Sayre band director, watches as bandsmen Tommy Juergensen and A. R. Cannon put final touches to a wash job on an automobile in the band-operated for-a-day- service station to raise fund for new uniforms."
Date: December 16, 1952
Creator: unknown
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B0300.0005]

Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Mrs. Gladys Hubbard/ Elk City"
Date: January 16, 1950
Creator: Owen, A. Y.
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B0300.0003]

Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Mrs. Gladys Hubbard /Elk City"
Date: January 16, 1950
Creator: Owen, A. Y.
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B0300.0002]

Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Mrs. Gladys Hubbard . . . "It was my first oil well"
Date: January 16, 1950
Creator: Owen, A. Y.
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B0292.0268]

Photograph taken for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "James Davalt, right, looks at the Thunderbird patch on Cpl. Leroy Bruce's uniform after being the first new recruit for company "C," 189th infantry at Elk City in the guard's present drive for new members."
Date: September 16, 1954
Creator: unknown
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B0295.0266]

Photograph taken for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "District Attorney Eph Monroe ordered late Thursday a sweeping investigation of Sayre police department and police court practices."
Date: October 16, 1968
Creator: Taylor, Robert
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B1119.0557]

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Chester Rankin rests on the wall around Doxey School, being made over for use by the eltronics deparment of the S ayra High School and Junior College."
Date: July 16, 1961
Creator: unknown
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

First Year Certified Sand Bluestem

Photograph of Paul Nelson and Earl Hewitt, SCD Technicians, examining a field of certified sand bluestem. The photograph does not distinguish the left to right order of Paul Nelson and Earl Hewitt. The back of the photograph proclaims, “SCD Technicians Paul Nelson and Earl Hewitt observe first years growth of certified sand bluestem planted in 1959.”
Date: September 16, 1959
Creator: Bryan, Hugo
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B1376.0575]

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Charles M. Wilson"
Date: June 16, 1952
Creator: unknown
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B1376.0576]

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Charles M. Wilson, Sayre, senator, is opposed by Thomas Spencer, Carter, farmer, and the odds are in favor of Wilson in the race in Beckham county."
Date: June 16, 1956
Creator: unknown
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B0375.0193]

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper.
Date: November 16, 1948
Creator: Johnson, Bill
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B0375.0192]

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper.
Date: November 16, 1948
Creator: Johnson, Bill
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B0375.0191]

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Rich, black oil gushed from the middle of a bind farmer's cotton fields near here at sunrise the last Sunday in October."
Date: November 16, 1948
Creator: Johnson, Bill
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B0375.0190]

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper.
Date: November 16, 1948
Creator: Johnson, Bill
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B0997.0475]

Caption: "Shown with the Oklahoma Elks Association "Sight and Hearing Mobile Unit" are, Left to right, Echo Club members Mrs. Harry Packard, Mrs. Jack Klein Egger and Mrs. Robert E. Noble." Three women holding a sign and standing in front of Oklahoma Elk Association van.
Date: March 16, 1971
Creator: Aker, Joe
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B1030.0176]

Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "At OCU,Rev.of United Methodist Church,Elk City."
Date: October 16, 1980
Creator: Southerland, Paul B.
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Harvesting Milo

Photograph of Dumas Moss harvesting milo for Jack Seals on Curtis Willsie farm. This farm is under contract with the Great Plains Conservation Program.
Date: September 16, 1959
Creator: Bryan, Hugo
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Certified Coronado Side-Oats

Photograph of SCS Technicians Earl Hewitt and Paul Nelson inspect certified Coronado side-oats grama planted in 1958. 1958 yield was 200 lbs of seed per acre. Miller is president of the Okla. Group Improvement Association as well as being a good conservation farmer.
Date: September 16, 1959
Creator: Bryan, Hugo
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

First Year Sand Bluestem

Photograph of SCS Technicians Paul Nelson and Earl Hewitt observe first years growth of certified sand bluestem planted in 1959.
Date: September 16, 1959
Creator: Bryan, Hugo
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Pumpkin and Corn Grown on Farm

Photograph of Sam Holmberg with pumpkins (corn in background) grown on his farm. Pumpkin crop goes to Erick Band Mothers for purchase of band uniforms. Last year pumpkin crop of 1/4 acre produced $185 for Holmberg son's Senior class which was used for trip to Washington. Holmberg is 1959 Father of the Year in Oklahoma as well as being a suprevisor in the North Fork of Red River SCD. Holmberg is an excellent conservation farmer on his 640 acre farm.
Date: September 16, 1959
Creator: Bryan, Hugo
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Water Conservation; Water Erosion; Flooding and Prevention

Photograph of moisture intake. Only three inches insoak on range in poor condition following 1.65 inches of rain that fell in 1 ½ hours on October 14, 1956. OK-392-4.
Date: October 16, 1956
Creator: Whittington, Fred
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Grass, Legume and Forb Cultivation

Photograph of Soil Conservation Service technicians Earl Hewitt and Paul L. Nelson inspect certified Coronado side oats grass planted in 1958. The 1958 yield was 200 pounds of seed per acre. Tom Miller is the president of the OK Crop Improvement Association as well as a good conservation farmer. OK-1005-3.
Date: September 16, 1959
Creator: Bryan, Hugo
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Grass, Legume and Forb Cultivation

Photograph of Earl Hewitt and Paul Nelson of the Soil Conservation Service (SCS) observing growth of sand bluestem, little bluestem, Indian grass, Switch grass and Sand Love grass where shimmery was sprayed and deferred grazing was practiced as a part of the conservation plan in the Great Plains Conservation Program. OK-1005-8.
Date: September 16, 1959
Creator: Bryan, Hugo
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Grass, Legume and Forb Cultivation

Photograph of Paul Nelson, Great Plains Specialist, standing in native grass after 2 years of shinnery spraying and 2 years of deferred grazing as a part of the Great Plains Conservation Program. Species present are sand bluestem, little bluestem, Indian grass, switch grass and sand love grass. R. F. Jones is a good conservation farmer on this land of about 1600 acres which is all under contract with the Great Plains Conservation Program. OK-1006-11.
Date: September 16, 1959
Creator: Bryan, Hugo
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History