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Civilian Conservation Corps
Photograph of Mr. E. P. Krause, an educational advisor at the Garber CCC Camp. Picture taken to illustrate an article by Ivy M. Howard. OK-5437.
Date:
December 10, 1936
Creator:
Hufnagle, Richard W.
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Water Conservation; Water Erosion; Flooding and Prevention
Photograph of terraced cotton field showing runoff water stored in the terrace channels 15 hours after a one-inch rain. The light colored strip beyond the water line shows the strip of land flooded shortly after the rain. OK-3/2406.
Date:
July 10, 1937
Creator:
Reif, Frank
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Water Conservation; Water Erosion; Flooding and Prevention [?].
Photograph of an earth dam near Kenton, OK. Dam has approx. 75,000 sq. yards of fill, approx. 2000 ft. long and will impound water over approximately 700 acres. The water will be used to irrigate 400 acres. It has a drainage area of 22.5 sections. During the dryest years there has been enough run-off water to fill the lake three times. OK-363.
Date:
May 10, 1939
Creator:
Haines, R. W.
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Water Conservation; Water Erosion; Flooding and Prevention
Photograph of a meadow outlet channel as developed from a gully which was being used to carry excess terrace water to the meadow at the foot of the slope. The entire area is fully utilized for the production of hay without loss of ground while the terrace channels gullying back into the field on both sides was also eliminated. The area has been sloped and sodded and a good vegetative cover has stabilized erosion. The entire area is now fully utilized for hay production and the former unprotected terrace outlets which were cutting back into the cultivated field have been eliminated by proper shaping and sodding. AR-D10-17-B.
Date:
December 10, 1940
Creator:
Rosborough, Craig
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Blue Grama
Photograph of two strains of blue grama grass in the U. S. Field Station nursery. The row on the left is from Flagstaff, AZ and the row on the right is from Lovington, NM.
Date:
July 10, 1942
Creator:
Smith, James E. , Jr.
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Farming Equipment and Methods
Photograph of the harvesting of buffalo grass seed with a small power-driven sickle-type mover with a pan attachment. OK-8383.
Date:
July 10, 1942
Creator:
Smith, James E.
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Grass, Legume and Forb Cultivation
Photograph of two strains of Blue Grama grasses in breeding nursery. On the left, from Flagstaff, Arizona and the right, from Lovington, New Mexico. OK-8370.
Date:
July 10, 1942
Creator:
Smith, James E.
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Grass, Legume and Forb Cultivation
Photograph of different strains of sideoats grama grass in a breeding nursery. Left: Selection #438 open-pollenated. Center left: Selection #438 self-pollenated. Center right: Selection #439 self-pollenated. Right: Selection #439 self-pollenated OK-8372.
Date:
July 10, 1942
Creator:
Smith, James E.
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Grass, Legume and Forb Cultivation
Photograph of different strains of sideoats grama grass in a breeding nursery. Left: Selection #432 open-pollenated. Center: Selection #432 self-pollenated. Right: Selection #434 open-pollenated. OK-8374.
Date:
July 10, 1942
Creator:
Smith, James E.
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Side-oats Grama
Photograph of side-oats grama grass in the U. S. Field Station nursery.
Date:
July 10, 1942
Creator:
Smith, James E. , Jr.
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Side-oats Grama
Photograph of different strains of side-oats grama growing in breeding nursery.
Date:
July 10, 1942
Creator:
Smith, James E. , Jr.
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Side-oats Grama
Photograph of side-oats grama.
Date:
July 10, 1942
Creator:
Smith, James E. , Jr.
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Sideoats Grama on U. S. Field Station
Photograph of sideoats grama located on the U. S. Field Station in Woodward. The back of the photograph proclaims, "Side-oats [sic] grama selection with compressed spikelets [sic]."
Date:
July 10, 1942
Creator:
Smith, James E. , Jr.
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Grass, Legume and Forb Cultivation
Photograph of Weeping Love Grass in a two acre field set out by A. H. Legako on May 2, 1942. Seedling plants were obtained from the Soil Conservation Service Land Utilization Project at Muskogee, OK. The seed crop was combined on 1942-07-08. and 26 pounds of recleaned seed were obtained on 1942-10-10. A hay crop might have been cut but Mr. Legako preferred to leave the grass blades on the ground for winter protection of the rocks. OK-8426.
Date:
October 10, 1942
Creator:
Webb, C. G.
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Kermit Whitehead
Photograph of Kermit Whitehead, son of land owner W. R. Whitehead, examining corn.
Date:
October 10, 1942
Creator:
Webb, Gordon C.
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Sorghum by W. A. Hayes
Photograph of sorghum grown on a 17-acre field protected by a diversion terrace. William Thomas Hayes, 5, son of the owner, is shown
Date:
October 10, 1942
Creator:
Webb, C. G.
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
W. A. Hayes
Photograph of W. A. Hayes with his corn crop.
Date:
October 10, 1942
Creator:
Webb, Gordon C.
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
William Thomas Hayes
Photograph of William Thomas Hayes, 5 year old son of farm owner W. A. Hayes, in front of kafir corn.
Date:
October 10, 1942
Creator:
Webb, Gordon C.
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
William Thomas Hayes
Photograph of William Thomas Hayes, 5 year old son of farm owner W. A. Hayes, in front of kafir corn.
Date:
October 10, 1942
Creator:
Webb, Gordon C.
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Soil Improving Korean Lespedeza
Photograph of Carl Chastain kneeling in a field of soil improving Korean Lespedeza. The back of the photograph proclaims, "Carl Chastain in Korean Lespedeza utilized for soil improvement. This is the first year Korean Lespedeza has been used here and Chastain said "Where the oats and wheat were seeded with the Lespedeza the small grain grew 6" to 8" higher than in the other field."
Date:
November 10, 1943
Creator:
Jenkins, E. W.
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
H. H. Lawson's Stock Cutter
Photograph of H. H. Lawson examining stalks of Crotalaria cut with his home built stalk cutter. The back of the photograph proclaims, “H. H. Lawson examines stalks of Crotalaria cut with his home built stalk cutter. A piece of 12” pipe and old road grader blades were utilized in constructing the implement. Cost, approximately $40.00.”
Date:
March 10, 1944
Creator:
Jenkins, E. W.
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Overflow Damage From Sugar Creek Done to a UNIDENTIFED Farm’s Buildings, Fields, and Bottomlands
Photograph of overflow damage from Sugar Creek done to a UNIDENTIFED farm's buildings, fields, and bottomlands two miles south of Gracemont. The back of the photograph proclaims, "Sugar Creek overflowing bottomlands, injuring pavement (sections washed out), drowning out crops, breaking levies and dykes and flooding homes."
Date:
April 10, 1944
Creator:
Archer, S. G.
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Siltation of Fields Caused by Overflowing of Sugar Creek
Photograph of a field covered in silt after the nearby Sugar Creek overflowed its banks. The back of the photograph proclaims, "Siltation of fields caused by overflowing of Sugar Creek."
Date:
April 10, 1944
Creator:
Archer, S. G.
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
J. R. C. Moseley Standing in a Field of Hairy Vetch
Photograph of J. R. C. Moseley standing in a field of hairy vetch used as both a cover and soil-building crop and seed production. Moseley in this photo poses with some hairy vetch in hand. The back of the photograph proclaims, "Part of the excellent hairy vetch cover and soil building crop that is being saved for seed on the Moseley Ranch. Mr. Moseley (in photo) says that this 70 acres of vetch and an adjoining 70 acres of Abruzzi rye carried 195 cows from Jan. 1 to Feb. 29, 1944. The crop was not damaged and the vetch will yield an average of 250# seed per acre. It is estimated that Mr. Moseley will harvest 150,000# of seed this year. Last year he harvested 40,000 lbs. of vetch seed from 160 acres."
Date:
May 10, 1944
Creator:
Jenkins, E. W.
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History