Farmstead Gate

Photograph of a farmstead gate with sign.
Date: 1973-10-XX
Creator: Thomas, James W.
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

INF-Conservation Districts Exhibits

Photograph of Conservation Districts exhibits at the Tulsa State Fair. Exhibiting Okmulgee, Mays, and Tulsa Counties Conservation Districts.
Date: 1973-10-XX
Creator: Thomas, James W.
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Education Information--Displays

Photograph of Oklahoma small watershed display. OK-3972-15.
Date: October 1, 1970
Creator: Croom, Dan
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Mobile Home Park

Photograph of strip pits leveled for a mobile home park. From the Wagoner County Conservation District, from left to right: Ernest Snook, State Range Conservationist; Wes Thomas, Tulsa; Danny McCarty; Dem Robertson, DC, Wagoner. OK-4428-5.
Date: October 7, 1971
Creator: Ball, Lemuel
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Strip Pits (Surface Mining)

Photograph of native grass on strip pits, 25 to 35 years old. OK-4428-10.
Date: October 7, 1971
Creator: Ball, Lemuel
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Strip Pits (Surface Mining)

Photograph of eroded strip pits 25 to 35 years old. OK-4428-7.
Date: October 7, 1971
Creator: Ball, Lemuel
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Strip Pits (Surface Mining)

Photograph of eroded strip pits 25 to 35 years old. OK-4428-13.
Date: October 7, 1971
Creator: Ball, Lemuel
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Strip Pits (Surface Mining)

Photograph of eroded strip pits 25 to 35 years old. OK-4429-14.
Date: October 7, 1971
Creator: Thomas, James W.
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Strip Pits (Surface Mining)

Photograph of native vegetation that is growing on strip pits. OK-4429-8.
Date: October 7, 1971
Creator: Ball, Lemuel
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Exhibitions and Presentations

Photograph of the Mayes County Soil and Water Conservation District [SWCD] exhibit displayed at the Tulsa State Fair. OK-3226-2.
Date: October 2, 1968
Creator: Croom, Dan
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Bermuda Grass and Cotton

Photograph of bermuda grass sprigs planted in every other cotton row. This field is to be retired to pasture and this means was taken to introduce the grass. It was cultivated whenever the cotton was. To be followed with later pictures.
Date: October 29, 1938
Creator: Hufnagle, Richard W.
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Roadside Gully

Photograph of a roadside gully destroying a fence. On the right the fence has been moved back, the roadside resectioned, and set to Bermuda grass.
Date: October 29, 1938
Creator: Hufnagle, Richard W.
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Conservation, Environmental & Safety Education

Photograph of Okmulgee County Soil and Water Conservation District (SWCD) Fair Display at the Tulsa State Fair. OK-4006-3.
Date: October 1970
Creator: Moss, Allen R.
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Oklahoma Small Watershed Display

Photograph of an Oklahoma Small Watershed Display at the Tulsa State Fair. OK-3972-15.
Date: October 1, 1970
Creator: Croom, Dan
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Education Information--Displays

Photograph of Okmulgee Country Soil and Water Conservation District [SWCD] Fiar Display at Tulsa State Fair. OK-4006-3.
Date: October 1970
Creator: Moss, Allen R.
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Water Conservation; Water Erosion; Flooding and Prevention

Photograph of a roadside gully on the left destroying a fence, on the right the fence has been moved back, the roadside resectioned, and set to Bermuda grass. OK-6906.
Date: October 29, 1943
Creator: Hufnagle, Richard W.
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Farming Equipment and Methods

Photograph of the unloading of bluestem seed in the mile-long Douglas Aircraft plant in Tulsa. From eft to right: Clarence Day and D.B. Clagg, both in the truck, and W.L. Elliot on the ground. The seed is from Coweta, near Broken Arrow. OK-9754.
Date: October 9, 1948
Creator: Reid, Louis
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Strip Pits (Surface Mining)

Photograph of native grass on strip pits, 25 to 35 years old, Tulsa County Conservation District. Prsent is Earnest Snook, State Range Conservationist, Stillwater, Oklahoma. OK-4428-12.
Date: October 7, 1971
Creator: Ball, Lemuel
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Strip Pits (Surface Mining)

Photograph of eroded strip pits 30 to 35 years old. OK-4429-10.
Date: October 7, 1971
Creator: Thomas, James W.
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Strip Pits (Surface Mining)

Photograph of kudzu growing on the top and side slopes of strip pits. OK-4429-7.
Date: October 7, 1971
Creator: Thomas, James W.
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Strip Pits (Surface Mining)

Photograph of native grass on strip pits, 25 to 35 years old. OK-4428-14.
Date: October 7, 1971
Creator: Ball, Lemuel
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Strip Pits (Surface Mining)

Photograph of native vegetation that is growing on strip pits. Prsent is Earnest Snook, State Range Conservationist, Stillwater, Oklahoma; Dem Robertson DC, Wagoner. OK-4429-9.
Date: October 7, 1971
Creator: Ball, Lemuel
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Grass, Legume and Forb Cultivation

Photograph of a view of a few of the foot-deep piles of bluestem grass seed which were spread out for three-fourths of a mile in the Douglas bomber plant to dry. This seed was stirred frequently to keep it from heating up and spoiling. OK-9783.
Date: October 24, 1948
Creator: Reid, Louis E.
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Native Grass Seed Storage at Douglas Aircraft Plant

Photograph of Joe Asher, driver, Clarence Day, D. B. Clagg, and W. L. Elliot storing a truckload of native grass seed from Coweta at the Douglas Aircraft plant in Tulsa. People shown in photo go as followed from left to right: Joe Asher, driver, Clarence Day, D. B. Clagg, and W. L. Elliot. The back of the photograph proclaims, "The mile-long Douglas Aircraft plant at Tulsa was used for storage of Soil Conservation Service native grass seed. Here a truckload of seed from Coweta, near Broken Arrow, unloads. Left to right are Joe Asher, driver, from Ardmore, Okla., in the truck, left, Clarence Day, and right, D. B. Clagg, and on the ground, right, is W. L. Elliot. The latter three are from Claremore."
Date: October 8, 1948
Creator: Reid, Louis
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History