Resource Type

Headquarters if the Bar CC Ranch

Photograph of the headquarters at the old Bar CC Ranch in 1886. There are four buildings in this picture, one is a log cabin. The headquarters was located in Ochiltree County at the top of the Texas panhandle.
Date: 1886
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History

Roundup at Bar CC Ranch

Photograph of a roundup on Bar CC Rance in 1886, near the old ranch headquarters on Wolf Creek. Jas McKenzie the ranch manager, is in the center on the bobtailed horse and Ed Brainard, the range boss, is the furthest man on the right.
Date: 1886
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Ochiltree Theatre Students]

Photograph of a group of Ochiltree students on a stage. In the foreground the folding chairs of the audience are visible.
Date: 1916
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History

[The New School Building for Perryton High School]

Photograph of the new school building for Perryton High School. The building is two stories tall and made of a brick with a light color trim. In the foreground of the picture are two trees that have no leaves on them.
Date: 1922
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History

[1925 Perryton Girls Basketball Team]

Photograph of 1925 Perryton girls basketball team. The team is dressed in long cardigans with the school monogram visible, and below knee length dark color skirts. They are all positioned on a diagonal line and each are on a individual step. A man in a dark color suit is standing at the very top of the steps.
Date: 1925
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History

Dust Storm in Perryton, Texas

Photograph of enormous dust clouds engulfing the town of Perryton, Texas. Across the bottom is written, "Dust Storm - Perryton, Texas. April 14, 1935. No. 4. The Perry Studio - Perryton, Texas".
Date: April 14, 1935
Creator: The Perry Studio
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Panhandle Dust Storm]

Photograph of a Panhandle dust storm approaching Perryton, Texas, on April 14, 1935.
Date: April 14, 1935
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History

Farming Equipment and Methods

Photograph of stubble mulching. Stubble mulching volunteer wheat on a contour-terraced field. Four, 36 inch Dumpster sweeps out 3 inches beneath the surface. The mulcher belongs to the Lipscomb County Wind Erosion District. Max Blau is operating the tractor. TX-42, 078.
Date: May 19, 1945
Creator: Jenkins, Elvin W.
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B0092.0582]

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Perryton's biggest civic tinge lately was the opening of a new home for the &B Motor Co., Inc."
Date: 1950
Creator: Killian, Thomas F.
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B1017.0499]

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "This is looking south down Perryton's Main street, which also is U. S. 83 - southward to Canadian, Shamrock and Childress, with connections to Oklahoma City; northward across the Oklahoma Panhandle to Liberal, Kan."
Date: January 10, 1950
Creator: unknown
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B1017.0500]

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "The only highschool - and the only gradeschool save one in Ochiltree county is this up-to-date building in Perryton."
Date: January 10, 1950
Creator: unknown
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B1017.0498]

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Perryton residential districts are clean and attractive."
Date: January 11, 1950
Creator: unknown
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Grass, Legume and Forb Cultivation

Photograph of a grass-protected waterway. This waterway as protected by western wheatgrass takes water for more than 3 miles along a highway ditch and additional water through a culvert from a bend across the highway [?]. This grass is three-years old. This waterway must be able to carry large amounts of water and therefore be protected against erosion. Yet it must not catch silt because it must remain wide and flat. Note the playa lake [i.e., a dry lake] in the background. TX-47, 235.
Date: October 10, 1950
Creator: Davis, D. O.
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B1134.0364]

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Seven beauties will compete August 20 in the "Wheatheart of the nation beauty pagent. Marya Rogers."
Date: August 2, 1966
Creator: unknown
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[1917 Ochiltree High School Basketball Team]

Photograph of the 1917 Ochiltree High School basketball team. The players are pictured in their uniforms of light color shorts and dark color shirts.
Date: 1917/1918
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History

Buildings at Bar CC Ranch in 1866

Photograph of the old Bar CC Ranch in 1886. The men on horseback are (L-R) Ed Brainerd and Mac Gates. One of the men on the porch is Dave Lard.
Date: unknown
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Ochiltree Football Team]

Photograph of the Ochiltree football team. The players are dressed in dark color uniform and the team's coach is dressed in a dark color suit. Behind the group is an open field and to the right side a horse drawn vehicle.
Date: unknown
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Photograph 2012.201.B0238.0463]

Photograph taken for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "to Miss Carolyn cooper, Wheatheart of 1958, will be chosen in Perrytown, Texas, August 21 and 22 during the city's celebration of its birth."
Date: unknown
Creator: unknown
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Students of the Old Country School]

Photograph of students from the Old Country School. There is handwritten text on the back that names the students in the photo.
Date: unknown
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Students Outside Ochiltree High School]

Photograph of older students at Ochiltree High School. The students are split into 4 rows and are positioned outside the front entrance of the school.
Date: unknown
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Students Outside the Old Ochiltree School]

Photograph of students outside the Old Ochiltree School. The students positioned into rows with the youngest in the front and the oldest towards the back.
Date: unknown
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Photograph 2012.201.B0226.0703]

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Lack of storage space forced grain dealers to create mountains of milo maize southwest of Perryton, Texas."
Date: February 2, 1970
Creator: unknown
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Ochiltree County Courthouse in Perryton, TX]

Photograph of Ochiltree County Courthouse in Perryton, TX. A road fills the foreground of the photo with a white car peeking into the photo from the left side while a second car sits parked at the edge of the sidewalk that runs in front of the courthouse property. Short orange bushes sit in long lines of yellow grass in front of the courthouse along with tall leafless trees. More bushes and trees with leaves sit along the base of the building. A short set of stairs leads up to the doors of the pale, brick and stone courthouse, which are windowed and set into dark frames. The section of the building the doors are set into faces the left edge of the photo and sticks out slightly from the rest of the building. The courthouse has three rows of windows with two of them being above the level of the doors while the last row sits below the doors' height in the building. The roof of the courthouse is flat with no ornamentation. Telephone poles and the liens attached to them occupy various positions in the photo including on the sidewalk, to the right of the courthouse, and in the …
Date: February 14, 1972
Creator: unknown
System: The UNT Digital Library

Bill Herndon

Photograph of Bill Herndon. Written on the back of the photo, "Born and raised on the Lazy Y Ranch in Ochiltree County, Bill is the third generation of his family to raise Hereford cattle and good horses along Wolf Creek. After planning and observing for twenty years, he chose northeastern Oklahoma as the site for the horse operation of his dreams."
Date: 1977
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History