Photograph is of two boys wearing plaid shirts each leading a calf by a leash. There is a man standing near the boys and calves holding the leash to one of the calves while the boy is shaving the hair of the calf. Caption: "Big league help is given brothers Keith and Don McCombs of Warren in Jackson county. They are headed for the Oklahoma 4-H and FFA Livestock Show in Oklahoma City, March 11-15 with their steers. The helper is former Jackson county 4-H member Eddie Fisher, star pitcher for the Chicago White Sox, spending the winter months on his youth baseball camp at Warren. Keith, left, is 13 and Don 12. Both are members of the Warren 4-H club."

Photograph taken during daylight of the charred wreckage of a burned building and gas pumps. Caption: "Jackson County Landmark established in 1890 - the Martha Mercantile Store - was destroyed by fire Wednesday after the building apparently was struck by a bolt of lighting. The longtime general merchandise store, which had added a gas station for modern times, was owned by Mrs. C. H. Doughty. She estimated loss at $25,000."

Photograph is of a man in a military flight suit sitting at a desk signing paperwork. Caption: "First Lt. Arthur L. Dozier of the 11th Air Refueling Squadron at Altus Air Force Base recently took the reins of responsibility as an aircraft commander of a KC-135 Stratotanker."

A crumpled and wrecked airplane lies upside down in the middle of a field with wheels in the air. Harry Hentschel was killed in the accident. Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Harry Hentschel killed by airplane crash."

Photograph of very extensive Land Clearance, Cultivation & Brush and Weed Control growing into and competing with grass, Clint Walcott farm.

Photograph of "Chunk" Reid spot-seeding and pitting native grasses. Note the excellent job of grass management.

Photograph of crop rotation. Mung beans planted in rows 40 inches on May 11, 1955. Variety jumbo. Expected yield is 600 pounds. Wheat to follow the Mung beans. Last year, the wheat averaged 37 bushels per acre. OK-143-11.

Photograph of a scene on Birdie Coker's farm.

Photograph of stream bank cutting. Temporary stream bank erosion control measure. The bridge is located in a bend in the river and each time the water rises some more bank is eaten away near the end of the bridge. These trees are held in place by a cable and keep the water away from the raw bank of the river. The section of the bank from the man in the photo to the present location of the bank was eroded away in one year. OK-89-1.

Photograph of the Red River. A large area of riverwash. Many thousands of acres of this land makes up thesandy channel of the Red River. The land has very little agricultural value but provides a habitat for wildlife. OK-743-6.

Photograph of an UNIDENTIFED soil scientist conducting a soil survey by using a hand level to obtain the percent of slope on the land for use on a standard soil survey. The back of the photograph proclaims, “Soil Surveys. Soil Scientist using a hand level to obtain the percent of slope on the land for use on a Standard Soil Survey."

Photograph of three UNIDENTIFED men drilling one of six small wells, which Frank Boykin hopes to irrigate 80 acres of land on his farm. The back of the photograph proclaims, "Irrigation. Frank Boykin – Drilling 6 small wells fitted with 5 ½" casting and gravel packed. Wells will be pumped with central pumping unit and farmer hopes to irrigate 80 acres of land. Each well has been tested with 2" centrifugal pump."

Photograph of irrigated Arizina combine grain sorghum growing on Reinach soil of very fine, sandy loam 0 to 1% slopes. This crop following alfalfa has had two 3-inch applications of water. Mr. Hughes estimates 4000 pounds of grain per acre.

Photograph of Midland Bermudagrass being planted in the Spring of 1951. Second year growth is excellent. Farmer was offered $2200.00 for 3/4 of an acre. Soil Unit is 8-BR.

Photograph of "Chunk" Reid spot-seeding and pitting native grasses.

Photograph of a mound of dark soil held in the hand of someone out-of-frame (to the right). There is a field and an automobile visible but out of focus in the background. Printed description on the back: "Soil. Sample of soil, Unit 70."

Photograph of a mound of dark soil held in the hand of someone out-of-frame (to the left). There is a field visible but out of focus in the background. Printed description on the back: "Soil. Sample of soil, Unit 70."

Photograph of a farmstead windbreak of Chinese Elm. Three-row belt, 15 years old. Soil Unit 7, Class I.

Photograph of conservation crop rotation. Austrian winter peas. 150 acres seeded in November 1956 for soil improvement. Good nitrogen fixation when photo was taken. An excellent growth, field has been in wheat for several years and with a wheat crop to planted in 1957. Seeding rate is about 20 pounds per acre. Seed inoculated. No fertilizer applied. Ray Murell, Work Unit Conservationists [WUC] in the picture. OK-456-1.

Photograph of Jake Ringwald and Hubert Mobley, SCS Soil Scientists, peering into recently formed gyp sink hole, which is approximately 30 feet deep and 15 feet wide. The photograph does not identify the left to right positions of Ringwald or Mobley. The back of the photograph proclaims, "Jake Ringwald and Hubert Mobley, SCS Soil Scientists, peering into recently gormed [sic] gyp sink in a gentley [sic] sloping what field of Tillman clay loam soil. The hole is approximately 30 feet deep and 15 feet wide. See Ok-720-12 for inside of hole."

Photograph of Mr. J.W. Rhoades operates the hydraulic controls and lifts the nose of the "Little Skojer" ditcher. Mr. Rhoades designed and built this original ditcher with parts from old farm equipment, an old electric refrigerator and washing machine and surplus war materials.

Photograph of an aerial view of Stinking Creek. The back of the photograph proclaims, “Aerial view of Stinking Creek. The alluvial soils are Port clay loam and the principal uplands are Tillman-Hollister soils. Much of the land is in irrigated cotton."

Photograph of flood damage on Bitter Creek. OK-185-1.

Photograph of flood damage to a county highway bridge on the Salt Fork of the Red River, west of Martha, OK. OK-296-12.