Photograph of Hadley Meinders (L), District Conservationist, Purcell, and Bobby Davis, Project Engineer, Davis Project Office, examine plans for Wiley Post Memorial Lake. OK-4376-13.

Photograph of Hadley Meinders (L), District Conservationist, Purcell, and Bobby Davis, Project Engineer, Davis Project Office, prepare to make compaction tests of Site # 34, Finn Creek. OK-4376-7.

Photograph of Wendell Jones (L), Civil Engineering Technician, Davis Project Office, explains use of comaction test equipment to student trainee James R. Leach. OK-4376-8.

Photograph of Hadley Meinders (L), District Conservationist, Purcell, and Bobby Davis, Project Engineer, Davis Project Office, examine fill material being placed in embankment site # 34, Finn Creek. OK-4376-11.

Photograph of "Raymond Albertson and French Gunn, employees of Tishomingo Wildlife Refuge, showing Sago pond weed and Round Stem Bull Rush which were planted in this sediment pool." The photograph does not list the list the left to right positions of Albertson or Gunn.

Photograph of E.O. Graham observing Wild Millet and Roundstem Bull Rush as a shoreline plant for duck food on Site 6 Chigley Sandy Watershed. This was planned by U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service and Oklahoma Wildlife Conservation Depr. Employees. Planted April 25, 1958.

Photograph of T-Bone McDonald observing Wild Millet as a shoreline plant for duck food on Site 6, Chigley Sandy Watershed. This was planned by U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service and Oklahoma Wildlife Conservation Depr. Employees. Planted April 25, 1958.

Photograph of French Gunn and Raymond Alberson, employees of Tishomingo Wildlife Refuge, planting Smart Weed and Wild Millet seed for cover and food on shoreline in sediment pool of Site 6, Chigley Sandy Watershed. Group in background in boat are planting Sago pond weed.

Photograph of John Ringer showing a 3 foot tree that has been sheared off at an angle by a bulldozer on a 300 acre clearing job below a detention structure on Wildhorse Creek Watershed. OK-1395-4.

Photograph of showing a close-up of a root rake made from heavy railroad spikes assembled on a heavy bulldozer for the purpose of combing stumps or roots out of the ground on 300 acres of land that is being cleared below a detention reservior on the Wildhorse Creek Watershed. OK-1395-2.

Photograph of Raymond Alberson and French Gunn, employees of Tishomingo Wildlife Refuge, showing Sago pond weed and Round Stem Bull Rush which were planted in this sediment pool.

Photograph of French Gunn and Raymond Alberson, employees of Tishomingo Wildlife Refuge, planting Smart Weed and Wild Millet seed for cover and food on shoreline in sediment pool of Site 6, Chigley Sandy Watershed. Group in background in boat are planting Sago pond wee..

Photograph of watershed benefits. Site No. 2, Colbert Creek. Seven boats were unloaded on this day, and it is not unusual to see 8 to 10 on weekends. Fifty people were enjoying the recreational benefits on this particular day. Good fishing is enjoyed during week days, when skiing activities slow down. Forty-six surface acres are impounded behind this structure. The operator of the farm charges $1.00 per car. He uses the honor system for depositing money in box when entering lake area.

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Led by the colors, the wagon train breaks camp and heads for Lindsey early Wednesday."

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Joe Taylor, Ardmore merchant and city commissioner, was bound over to district court trial on two burglary charges in Lincoln Co., the day following a preliminary hearing in Garvin Co. in which he faced the same situation on four charges. Joe Smith is the principal witness for the state. Smith is serving a prison sentence in Texas, and says Taylor was "cut-in" on some burglaries that he and two other men committed in Oklahoma. (Taylor would later be acquitted of all charges, or the charges would be dismissed. Photo is of Pauls Valley prelim hearing.)"

Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "PAULS VALLEY --- Fellow citizens will honor two Pauls Valley men at the 46th annual chamber of commerce banquet Thursday in the Lee school cafeteria."

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "The trains don't come by here anymore but the people who run the town do."

Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "W. O. Reed, standing, chief clerk at the training school for boys, and M. J. Bradley, superintendent, discuss the budget for the school for the next year."

Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Boys in State training school at Pauls Valley planting tomato plants."

Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company.

Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company.

Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Kitchen at State Training School for Boys, Pauls Valley."

Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "No prisoners' song for this training school quartet; more likely it's "Home Sweet Home."

Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "It's early to bed and early to rise."