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Grass, Legume and Forb Cultivation
Photograph of grass. Native grass planted in 1952. Class IV land. Moderately grazed during the winter. OK-1004-6.
Date:
September 15, 1959
Creator:
Bryan, Hugo
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Grass, Legume and Forb Cultivation
Photograph of grass. Native grass seeded to sideoats and blue grama. Planted in 1957 on a clean seedbed. Class III land. OK-1003-11.
Date:
September 15, 1959
Creator:
Bryan, Hugo
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Grass, Legume and Forb Cultivation
Photograph of grass. Reseeded to native grass mixture. Sideoats and blue grama of 1957. Class IV land. OK-1003-9.
Date:
September 15, 1959
Creator:
Bryan, Hugo
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Grass, Legume and Forb Cultivation
Photograph of sericea Lespedeza. Sericea Lespedeza was planted in 1950 and drilled with oats and a sod drill. It will be used for hay. The sericea is growing on old cultivated land of Class III, 2% slope and Soil Unit # 6. Sixty percent of the topsoil in this field has been removed by erosion. The Soil Conservation Service recommends this type of plants rather than row crops on a field in this condition. OK-273-12.
Date:
May 15, 1956
Creator:
McConnell, John
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Grass, Legume and Forb Cultivation
Photograph of the baling sericea lespedeza on the Andrew J. Costner farm, 3 miles NW of Heavener, OK. Mr. Costner is a supervisor of the LeFlore County Soil Conservation District. Charles Nobles, custom hay baler, and Roy Erwin, Work Unit Conservationist of the Soil Conservation Service, checking the quality of the sericea lespedeza hay. Twenty acres of sericea lespedeza meadow produced 509 bales of top quality hay. OK-10-873-B.
Date:
July 15, 1954
Creator:
Gamble, M. D.
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Grass, Legume and Forb Cultivation
Photograph of bailing sericea lespedeza hay. Mr. Andrew Costner, shown, is the supervisor of the LeFlore County Soil Conservation District. Hay is being baled by Charles Nobles, custom baler. This 20 acres of sericea hay meadow made 509 bales of hay on the first cutting. OK-10-873-A.
Date:
July 15, 1954
Creator:
Gamble, M. D.
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Water Conservation; Water Erosion; Flooding and Prevention
Photograph of road bed sloughing off into gully caused by excessive run-off from adjoining cultivated fields. Conservation farming methods would have prevented this. OK-8450.
Date:
December 15, 1942
Creator:
Hammett, J.W.
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Cattle
Photograph of A. H. Hancock's cattle.
Date:
July 15, 1953
Creator:
Rechenthin, C. A.
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
H. L. Clark
Photograph of H. L. Clark, soil scientist from Thibodaux, LA, examining old seed heads.
Date:
September 15, 1951
Creator:
unknown
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Omer and Orville Moore
Photograph of Omer and Orville Moore, and their dogs, with opossum hides taken over three nights.
Date:
January 15, 1939
Creator:
Hurd, M. A.
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Lloyd Lafave
Photograph of Lloyd Lafave standing next to traps used on the farm for rabbits.
Date:
January 15, 1939
Creator:
Hurd, M. A.
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Hobbs Western Timber Company
Photograph of Hobbs Western Timber Company workers loading cross-ties onto train cars.
Date:
April 15, 1941
Creator:
Jenkins, Elvin W.
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Pine Poles
Photograph of peeled pine poles ready for market.
Date:
April 15, 1941
Creator:
Jenkins, Elvin W.
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
John Westmoreland & Sons Mill
Photograph of workers cutting pine poles for split fence posts at the John Westmoreland & Sons Mill.
Date:
April 15, 1941
Creator:
Jenkins, Elvin W.
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Hobbs Western Timber Company
Photograph of Hobbs Western Timber Company workers loading cross-ties onto train cars.
Date:
April 15, 1941
Creator:
Jenkins, Elvin W.
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Hill Hudgins Family
Photograph of the Hill Hudgins family inside a squatter shack on land purchased by the U. S. Government. This family of eight lives in a one room shack with a kitchen adjoining. They have cleared 13 acres of forest land selling pine cross-ties and poles as a livelihood.
Date:
April 15, 1941
Creator:
Jenkins, Elvin W.
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Gully Erosion
Photograph of severe gully erosion.
Date:
May 15, 1940
Creator:
Jenkins, Elvin W.
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Bermuda Grass
Photograph of Bermuda grass.
Date:
August 15, 1955
Creator:
Huckabee, DeWitt
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Bermuda Grass
Photograph of Bermuda grass.
Date:
August 15, 1955
Creator:
Huckabee, DeWitt
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Flood Control Detention Structure
Photograph of Owl Creek Site #4. Detention Reservoir, D.A - 500 acres. Permanent pool - 1.03" runoff with 12.3 acres surface. Storage total - 5.22" runoff to emergency spillway. The flood pool, which is 8" in depth, discharges through an 18" pipe at an average rate of 27 c.f.s. or at an average rate of 1.3 inches runoff per day for the whole drainage area. During the storm of May 9-10, 15.5" of rain fell upon this watershed. Runoff filled the flood pool to the emergency spillway shown in foreground. In this photo flood pool is still discharging with 2 ft. of water over the 18" discharge pipe.
Date:
May 15, 1950
Creator:
Ginter Photo Co.
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Row Irrigation
Photograph of row irrigation; part of field is 2 percent slope, row direction down steepest slope; plastic sleeves in pipe lets water down each row.
Date:
April 15, 1955
Creator:
Murray, Hubert J.
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Owl Creek Detention Reservoirs #1 & #2
Photograph of an aerial shot of Owl Creek Detention Reservoir site #1 & 2 and the surrounding area. Several homes and buildings populate the land in the top background of photograph. The back of the photograph proclaims, “Bottomland protected by this (site 2) reservoir and by Site No. 1 which is to the right.”
Date:
May 15, 1950
Creator:
Ginter Photo Co.
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Owl Creek Detention Reservoir Site #4
Photograph of an aerial shot of Owl Creek Detention Reservoir site #4 and the surrounding area. A barn or a miscellaneous building stands in the background of photo on the left side. The back of the photograph proclaims, “Owl Creek Site #4. Detention Reservoir: Drainage are [sic] – 300 ac. Permanent pool – 1.13” runoff with 6.88 surface acres. Flood pool – 4.09” runoff with 19.50 surface acres. Total storage – 5.22” runoff. The flood pool which is 8 ft. in depth has a discharge rate from 31 c.f.s. to 37 c.f.s. from 18” pipe. During the storm of May 9-10 (both pools were empty except the borrow pit) 15.5 inches of rain fell in this watershed, and water was discharged, for a short time, through the emergency spillway at a depth of 1.8 ft.”
Date:
May 15, 1950
Creator:
Ginter Photo Co.
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Neil Johnson Ranch Channel Type Terraces Creation
Photograph of an UNIDENTFIED man on the Neil Johnson Ranch “striking off the backslopes of a channel type terrace built entirely with a bulldozer.” The back of the photograph proclaims, “Striking off the backslopes of a channel type terrace built entirely with a bulldozer. See Okla-190-12 for the first pass made with bulldozer in starting construction.”
Date:
November 15, 1955
Creator:
Martin, J. Vernon
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History