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[Photograph 2012.201.B0077.0021]

Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Playing Possum During the Depression opossums were hunted throughout Haskell County, not only for the meat but also for their hides."
Date: December 7, 1991
Creator: McDaniel, David
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B0155.0077]

Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Possum Lady Ruby Davis resident of Possum Hollow Okla."
Date: December 7, 1991
Creator: McDaniel, David
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B0097.0371]

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "John Booth senior vice president of the Oklahoma Mortgage Co., said the bill came before the Senate Monday without prior knowledge of state housing finance institutions."
Date: June 7, 1972
Creator: Albright, Bob
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B1268.0185]

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "The story is another keepsake for Mrs. Millie Sturgeon to put away and "look at when I get old."
Date: December 7, 1961
Creator: unknown
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

A Flooded Cotton Field

A photograph by the USDA Soil Conservation Service showing Jim Molen, owner of Molen Farm (which is operated by Keith Boggs), viewing the overflow of Cavalry Creek on a newly planted cotton field, four miles south of Cordell, Oklahoma
Date: July 7, 1959
Creator: United States. Soil Conservation Service
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Water Conservation; Water Erosion; Flooding and Prevention

Photograph of an unnecessary gully. Two diversion terraces have been constructed on this farm, above the gully, to divert the water to a safe spill area in the pasture. The gully will be closed up and the terraces constructed across it. OK-672-3.
Date: May 7, 1958
Creator: Rowlett, Olen
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Water Conservation; Water Erosion; Flooding and Prevention

Photograph of creek channel erosion. Erosion on the stream bank due to overflow and irregular route of the creek channel. Detention reservoir site # 20, Cavalry Creek watershed, is on the next farm above this. Banks plans to straighten creek for better stream bank stabilization and increase tillable acres. OK-672-5.
Date: May 7, 1958
Creator: Rowlett, Olen
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B0227.0343]

Photograph taken for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "If Norma Rhoads Clark, 22-year-old fullblood Cheyenne from Colony, had a trustworthy crystal ball into which to gaze she might be able to tell exactly where her marine corps sergeant husband is."
Date: May 7, 1943
Creator: Kaho, C. J.
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B0240.0485]

Photograph taken for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Architects drawing of new Baptist church to replace one destroyed by fire."
Date: January 7, 1940
Creator: unknown
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History