[T&P Train #807 in Shadow]

Photograph of T&P train #807 in Shreveport, Louisiana. The train is in shadow. There is text below the image that says "[sic] Shreveport La Mar 22 1948" and "H.E.Chelf."
Date: March 22, 1948
Creator: Chelf, H. E.
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Louisiana Eastern Train #23]

Photograph of a train engine and car parked behind another partially-visible train car (right). An unidentified man is in the engine cab and a bridge is visible in the background. Handwritten text below the photo says, "Amite City, La. June 22nd 1959 - Louisiana Eastern #23 (ex T&P #478)."
Date: June 22, 1959
Creator: Winters, Charles E.
System: The Portal to Texas History

An UNIDENTIFIED Man Standing in the Channel of Main Drainage Ditch #1 at Station 1 & 25 After Removal of Stumps and Completion of Dragline Operations

Photograph of an UNIDENTIFIED man standing in the channel of Main Drainage Ditch #1 at Station 1 & 25 after removal of stumps and completion of dragline operations. The back of the photograph proclaims, "Channel of Main Drainage Ditch #1 at Station 1 & 25 after removal of stumps and completion of dragline operations. Outlet is Bayou Chenin-A-Haut. Ditch drains almost 175 acres of cultivated land, and about 10 acres of woodland pasture. Approximately 40 acres, which has been out of cultivation for years due to poor drainage is now being brought back into production."
Date: July 22, 1944
Creator: Jenkins, E. W.
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Water Conservation; Water Erosion; Flooding and Prevention

Photograph of the moving of a main drainage ditch. This ditch is part of a complete conservation system on 650 acres of cropland which recently has helped get 140 acres in crop production which previously have been too wet to handle. H. Philip Wample says he would have lost 175 acres of corn this spring withou the system. LA-61, 360.
Date: October 22, 1947
Creator: Reid, Louis E.
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History