Combining Cheyenne Indian Grass

Photograph of combining Cheyenne Indiangrass seed.Seeded in 1958. Seed for this planting furnished by Plant Material Center.
Date: September 18, 1959
Creator: Bryan, Hugo
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Field

Photograph of a man in tall grass. This picture shows native grass after timber was sprayed in the Spring of 1967. Grass has made a quick recovery and good growth. Grazing was deffered during the growing season to enable native grasses to make growth and produce seed. OK-2904-12.
Date: September 14, 1967
Creator: Price, Neil
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Wichita Mountains Wildlife Refuge

Photograph of open stand of oak trees in south side of big game pasture. West of Lake Quanah Parker. Native grass is dominately little bluestem. Browse line caused by deer. OK-935-10.
Date: September 16, 1959
Creator: Fry, Chester
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Wichita Mountains Wildlife Refuge

Photograph of the Wildlife refuge. Range condition class: Excellent. Boulder ridge and hilly, stony land (very shallow soil). OK-9214.
Date: September 13, 1946
Creator: Jenkins, Elvin W.
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Wichita Mountains Wildlife Refuge

Photograph of Arthur F. Halloran, Wildlife Management biologist with grass guage in Graham Flat, Big Game Pasture. Loamy bottom site. Excellent condition. OK-935-7.
Date: September 15, 1959
Creator: Fry, Chester
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Grass, Legume and Forb Cultivation

Photograph of hand harvesting send bluestem (Andropogon hallii). OK-8894.
Date: September 23, 1944
Creator: Jenkins, Elvin W.
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Grass, Legume and Forb Cultivation

Photograph of Gordon Powers pours clean buffalo grass burs into a hammermill to prove his idea that this method is a quick, cheap and safe way to more seeedlings than ever before from a pouind of buffalo grass burs. Powers also designed and built the very successful dust collector shown on the hammermill. OK-8887.
Date: September 25, 1944
Creator: Jenkins, Elvin W.
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Grass, Legume and Forb Cultivation

Photograph of harvesting little bluestem. Durwood Calvert doing the harvesting. OK-9787.
Date: September 28, 1948
Creator: Elder, Tom
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Grass, Legume and Forb Cultivation

Photograph of grain sorghum production under GPCP [Global precipitation climatology project] contract. OK-750-8.
Date: September 10, 1958
Creator: Eldar, A. P.
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Wichita Mountains Wildlife Refuge

Photograph of Soil Conservation Service personnel and Wichita Wildlife Refuge officials on planning tour in preparation for Soil Conservation Service Range School to be conducted by Mr. B.W. Allred. Front row:, left to right: Marjorie Krelberg, W.A. Watson, Victor Bunderson, Herschel Bell, E.B. Kong, R.H. Marshall and Courtland Tidwell. Back row, left to right: Julian Howard, P.F. Alan, Larry Short, Louis reid, Rudy Peterson, Ervin Schmutz, L.H. Leithead, carl Eminger, Ben Osborn, R.B. Peck, Jack Englemann, B.W. Allred, E.J. Dyksterhuis and Ernest Greenwalt. Greenwalt is refuge Superintendant and Howard is his assistant. OK-9219.
Date: September 13, 1946
Creator: Jenkins, Elvin W.
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Oklahoma City State Fair

Photograph of a miniature farm exhibition at the Oklahoma State Fair. R7-367.
Date: September 23, 1938
Creator: Shuhart, D. V.
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Wichita Mountains Wildlife Refuge

Photograph of buffalo calves (outer) and cow (right) using mesquite trees for rubbing posts. OK-9213.
Date: September 13, 1946
Creator: Jenkins, Elvin W.
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Wichita Mountains Wildlife Refuge

Photograph of buffalo herd on native grass range. Note calves in center and on right. OK-9210.
Date: September 13, 1946
Creator: Jenkins, Elvin W.
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Wichita Mountains Wildlife Refuge

Photograph of part of the buffalo herd in the Wichita Mountains Wildlife Refuge, Lawton, Oklahoma. This is the second largest herd of buffalo on the continent. The buffalo was the "department store" of the plains Indians, supplying them with practically all their needs. When the millions of buffalo that roamed the prairies were exterminated there were a few small herds saved and those have now grown to some 22,000 in North American game preserves. OK-79, 522.
Date: September 29, 1949
Creator: Postlethwaite, Hermann
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Wichita Mountains Wildlife Refuge

Photograph of part of the buffalo herd in the Wichita Mountains Wildlife Refuge, Lawton, Oklahoma. This is the second largest herd of buffalo on the continent. The buffalo was the "department store" of the plains Indians, supplying them with practically all their needs. When the millions of buffalo that roamed the prairies were exterminated there were a few small herds saved and those have now grown to some 22,000 in North American game preserves. OK-79, 521.
Date: September 29, 1949
Creator: Postlethwaite, Hermann
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Wichita Mountains Wildlife Refuge

Photograph of part of the buffalo herd in the Wichita Mountains Wildlife Refuge, Lawton, Oklahoma. This is the second largest herd of buffalo on the continent. The buffalo was the "department store" of the plains Indians, supplying them with practically all their needs. When the millions of buffalo that roamed the prairies were exterminated there were a few small herds saved and those have now grown to some 22,000 in North American game preserves. OK-79, 524.
Date: September 29, 1949
Creator: Postlethwaite, Hermann
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Wichita Mountains Wildlife Refuge

Photograph of part of the buffalo herd in the Wichita Mountains Wildlife Refuge, Lawton, Oklahoma. This is the second largest herd of buffalo on the continent. The buffalo was the "department store" of the plains Indians, supplying them with practically all their needs. When the millions of buffalo that roamed the prairies were exterminated there were a few small herds saved and those have now grown to some 22,000 in North American game preserves. OK-79, 520.
Date: September 29, 1949
Creator: Postlethwaite, Hermann
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Wichita Mountains Wildlife Refuge

Photograph of part of the buffalo herd in the Wichita Mountains Wildlife Refuge, Lawton, Oklahoma. This is the second largest herd of buffalo on the continent. The buffalo was the "department store" of the plains Indians, supplying them with practically all their needs. When the millions of buffalo that roamed the prairies were exterminated there were a few small herds saved and those have now grown to some 22,000 in North American game preserves. OK-79, 526.
Date: September 29, 1949
Creator: Postlethwaite, Hermann
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Wichita Mountains Wildlife Refuge

Photograph of part of the buffalo herd in the Wichita Mountains Wildlife Refuge, Lawton, Oklahoma. This is the second largest herd of buffalo on the continent. The buffalo was the "department store" of the plains Indians, supplying them with practically all their needs. When the millions of buffalo that roamed the prairies were exterminated there were a few small herds saved and those have now grown to some 22,000 in North American game preserves. OK-79, 523.
Date: September 29, 1949
Creator: Postlethwaite, Hermann
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Wichita Mountains Wildlife Refuge

Photograph of a spotted longhorn steer. OK-9192.
Date: September 5, 1946
Creator: Allred, B. W.
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Wichita Mountains Wildlife Refuge

Photograph of an aged Texan Longhorn Steer. OK-9195.
Date: September 17, 1946
Creator: Allred, B. W.
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Conservation, Environmental & Safety Education

Photograph of a school yard being used for the study of the outdoors. OK.
Date: September 1973
Creator: Combs, Sam, Jr.
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Conservation, Environmental & Safety Education

Photograph of elementary school children on an outdoor classroom site. OK.
Date: September 1973
Creator: Combs, Sam, Jr.
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Conservation, Environmental & Safety Education

Photograph of teachers using the school site for teaching. OK.
Date: September 1973
Creator: Combs, Sam, Jr.
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History