Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Carleton Ross Hume, oldest graduate of the University of Oklahoma, sips a drink with Mrs. Hume during Monday's alumni reunion."

Photograph of the heavy rain of May 17, 1949 washed out a bridge and road fill on the highway. Road closed for 8 weeks. A raft was [illegible] by the Highway Department in order that foot traffic could cross and people could get to Anadarko to get needed supplies. Before this was done, needed supplies were transported by airplanes and boats. SCS technicians Bob Wall, Clarence Fly, Ervin Orr, and Bill Chatham used this method to get around to the pick ups stored on the other side, in order to [illegible]. ok-10, 136.

Photograph of Washita River, south of Fort Cobb, with main bridge sandbagged. The town is out off from traffic after 10-inch raiin on May 17, 1949.

Photograph of Austin Sisson, renter, shown with Soil Conservation Service [SCS] technician, Bodie Wilson, in a wheat field fertilized with 150 pounds superphosphate fertilizer per acre. OK-9907.

Photograph of an SCD official showing the high water mark during a recent flood. Furniture has been moved out of South Caddo Soil Conservation District office after flood two feet deep in official

Photograph of view of part of flooded bottom of Sugar Creek. Highway 281 was 4 feet in water night before.

Photograph of flooded bottom of Sugr Creek. Hishway 281 was 4 feet in water night before.

Photograph of a planting machine planting a shelterbelt consisting of three rows, 2 rows of Chinese Elm and 1 row of Mulberry. 30 minutes for 1/2 mile. One row to planted right through the center of farm. The pattern is to be completed in the future. OK-9910.

Photograph of a planting machine planting a shelterbelt consisting of three rows, 2 rows of Chinese Elm and 1 row of Mulberry. 30 minutes for 1/2 mile. One row to planted right through the center of farm. The pattern is to be completed in the future. OK-9910.

Photograph of deposition on small drain on 50 acre Riverside Watershed after 6 to 7 inch rain on May 17, 1949.

Photograph of Washita River on south side of bridge near Anadarko. The rise took 2 hours to travel from Fort Cobb to Anadarko.

Photograph of aerial view of Fort Cobb, Oklahoma, was flooded by 10-inch rain in 5 hours on Cobb Creek. The water was 3 feet deep in main part of town. The Soil Conservation Service office had 15 inches of water in it. The water in the background is the Washita River which is being flooded by 11-inch rain on Rainy Mountain Creek. The River did not flood Fort Cobb. See Okla-10, 015, Okla-10, 017 and Okla-10, 018.

Photograph of flood water from Cobb Creek. The rainfall at Fort Cobb was 10 inches and south of Weatherford was approximately 3 inches which is on the headwaters of Cobb Creek. The 10 inch rain at Fort Cobb lasted for 5 hours.

Photograph of aerial view of flood area over highway 58, north of Carnegie, Oklahoma. This flood was developed from 11 inch rain at Mountain View and 9 inch at Carnegie.

Photograph of Fort Cobb, Oklahoma was flooded by 10 inch rain in 5 hours on Cobb Creek. The water was 3 feet deep in the main part of town. The Soil Conservation Service office had 15 inches of water in it. The water in the background is the Washita River which is being flooded by a 11-inch rain on Rainy Mountain Creek. The river did not flood Fort Cobb.

Photograph of aerial view of Washita River on the right and Cobb Creek on the left.

Photograph of aerial view of flood waters at the Washita River at Carnegie, Okla. , from the 11 inch rain in the Mountain View area.

Photograph of a scene near Cement, OK.

Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "The city of Carnegie and the Carnegie school district joined to build a recreation plant."

Photograph taken for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "The new shops and classroom building at Cyril high school will be completed this summer, Roy Windle, superintendent of schools, said."

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "This 300-foot bridge was lifted from its base on U. S. 281 north of Gracemont when the rain-swollen White Bread creek rampaged Tuesday night."

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Ivan D. Mayberry, a citrus grower at Mission, Texas, visits Horn canna farm with Harry Jolly, Carnegie Herald publisher."

Photograph of an oil field, Cement, OK.

Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Hinton's Kiwanis park is in a canyon carved from solid sandstone with spring-fed streams winding through the grassy floor."