Three rows of workmen in front of Tulsa Trinity Episcopal Church under construction. These are the workmen who built the church. Rev. Rolfe Crum, Rector from 1921 - 1925, is standing in the back row.

Group of parishioners and Rev. Stratton standing in front of St. Thomas Episcopal Church, Tulsa. The mission formed in 1924 as an Episcopal Black mission in Tulsa. Rev. Stratton died while ministering to St. Thomas.

Photograph of a section of Crow Creek in Tulsa showing the old channel and damage caused by high water.

Photograph of the new channel on Crow Creek in Tulsa, Oklahoma showing a section of rip-rapping. The project is funded by the Works Progress Administration. OHS note: The location is likely near East 33rd Street and South Peoria Ave,

Photograph of Horace Mann School in Tulsa undergoing construction and repairs to exterior brickwork, coping and roof. The project is funded by the Works Progress Administration.

Standing in front of Trinity Episcopal Church, L-R: Rev. Jas. J. H. Reedy, Quentin Ferguson, Rev. Edward H. Eckel, Bishop Thomas Casady and unidentified clergy. Written on back "Ordination to Priesthood, Quentin Ferguson." Stamped The Howard Commercial Photography.

Photograph of pavement being reinforced on Reservoir Hill in Tulsa, Oklahoma

Photograph of a finished section of paving on Reservoir Hill, Tulsa, Oklahoma.

Photograph of bricks being removed from abandoned street car tracks for the repaving of third street in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Cars and heavy equipment are parked along the street in front of hotels and businesses such as Hyland Clothing, Kress and the Rialto Theater. View is looking west from Main Street.

Photograph taken for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper.

Photograph of six cows standing and grazing in a newly contoured and furrowed pasture consisting of Lespedeza and Bermudagrass. A barn and two other buildings stand in the background of photograph. The back of the photograph proclaims, "Cows grazing on newly contour furrowed pasture. Lespedeza sown between ridges and ridges set to Bermuda. Practice is justified because cows are not materially hurting the Bermuda through overgrazing."

Photograph of six cows standing and grazing in a newly contoured and furrowed pasture consisting of Lespedeza and Bermudagrass. A barn and two other buildings stand in the background of photograph. The back of the photograph proclaims, "Cows grazing on newly contour furrowed pasture. Lespedeza sown between ridges and ridges set to Bermuda. Practice is justified because cows are not materially hurting the Bermuda through overgrazing."

Photograph of small gully in field which is the direct result of improper farming methods. The rows of preceding crops have been planted up and down the slope.

Photograph of a Bermuda grass pasture.

Photograph of a follow-up picture of Okla-5863. The back of the photograph proclaims, "Follow-up of Okla-5863. Four rounds have been plowed to the original ridge since the first picture was made. Bermuda grass has solidly covered the ridges and has spread somewhat in the intervals. It is planned to have the pasture completely plowed by three years from now. To be followed with progress pictures." A few buildings are in the upper left.

Rev. Edward H. Eckel on left and Rt. Rev. Thomas Casady on right of the baptismal font. On the base in black lettering, "1939, In Memoriam, Elise Feathrston Beall." Rev. Eckel was at Tulsa Trinity Episcopal Church from 1930's until 1958.

Photograph of a meeting of representatives of various groups and organizations to ork out program of Fire Prevention and Control Association at Broken Arrow, Oklahoma.

Photograph of a group photo of a class at the Spartan School of Aeronautics. The class is divided into three rows and are standing in front of the radio laboratory of the school.

Photograph is of a woman swinging the bat while another girl is behind her in the catcher's position. Caption: "Sonny Dunlap, a girl, catcher for the Tulsa Orpheum Cigar store girls' softball team."

Photograph of H.H. Bennett, chief of the Soil Conservation Service, and F.S. Hurd, Chairman, Board of Supervisors, Arkansas Verdigris Soil Conservation District [SCD], examine an improved pasture on the farm of C.B. Ritberger. Ritberger says carrying capacity of this 88 acre pasture has been doubled since he improved it with the addition of hop clover, white Dutch, yellow hop and lespedeza. Ritberger first came to this 200acre farm as a tenant in 1928, he rented the farm for $700 from F.S. Hurd until 1938, when he bought the farm, paying $8000 cash. Starting with 2 cows in the diary business he has increased the herd to 40 Jerseys that average 20 pounds of milk per day, the year round. He also has 20 white-faced Herefords. His 92 acres of cultivated land are terraced and tilled on the contour. He has 12 acres of bluestem meadow and 2 acres of post lot. OK-8546.

Photograph of P.S. Hurd, Chairman, Board of Supervisors, Arkansas Verdigris's Soil Conservation District [SCD] and H. H. Bennett, Chief of the Soil Conservation Service examine some native little bluestem in the 12 acre meadow of the C.B. Ritberger farm. This meadow land is contributing a large amount of run-off to streams was formerly waste before Ritberger developed it under a plan worked out with the aid of technicians of the Soil Conservation Service assigned to assist the district. Grass today is helping to hold most of the rain on the land. OK-8548.

Photograph of H.H. Bennett, chief of the Soil Conservation Service, and F.S. Hurd, Chairman, Board of Supervisors, Arkansas Verdigris Soil Conservation District [SCD], examine an improved pasture on the farm of C.B. Ritberger. Ritberger says carrying capacity of this 88 acre pasture has been doubled since he improved it with the addition of hop clover, white Dutch, yellow hop and lespedeza. Ritberger first came to this 200acre farm as a tenant in 1928, he rented the farm for $700 from F.S. Hurd until 1938, when he bought the farm, paying $8000 cash. Starting with 2 cows in the diary business he has increased the herd to 40 Jerseys that average 20 pounds of milk per day, the year round. He also has 20 white-faced Herefords. His 92 acres of cultivated land are terraced and tilled on the contour. He has 12 acres of bluestem meadow and 2 acres of post lot. OK-8546.

Photograph of F.S. Hurd, Chairman, Board of Supervisors, Arkansas Verdigris Soil Conservation District [SCD], and H. H. Bennett, Chief of the Soil Conservation Service examine some native little bluestem in the 12-acre meadow of the C.B. Ritberger farm. This meadow land contributing a large amount of run-off to streams was formerly waste before Ritberger developed it under a plan worked out with the aid of technicians of the Soil Conservation Service [SCS] assigned to the district. Grass today is helping to hold most of the rain on the land. OK-8548.

Photograph of hauling in Alfalfa hay. Total acres in farm: 200; pasture, gg: cultivation, 92, native meadow, 12; post lot, 2; farmstead, 2. Ritberger signed a cooperative agreement with the Arkansas Verdigris SCD July 25, 1940. Farm owner (on top of wagon) and Claud Ritberger, son, are hauling in alfalfa hay from the 10 acre field that produces an average of 4 tons per acre annually. Some sheet and gullly erosion were active on this field before alfalfa was establsihed in cooperation with the district. Superphosphate and lime were applied to this field before planting alfalfa.