Resource Type

Missouri, Kansas & Texas (MKT) "Katy" 306

A photograph print showing the Missouri, Kansas & Texas (MKT) "Katy" 306, 4-4-0 (BLW, class E-3), Elk City, OK.
Date: August 1937
Creator: George, Preston
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Missouri, Kansas & Texas (MKT) "Katy" 306

A photograph print showing the Missouri, Kansas & Texas (MKT) "Katy" 306, 4-4-0 (BLW, class E-3), on a northbound passenger train, Elk City, OK.
Date: August 1, 1937
Creator: George, Preston
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Missouri, Kansas & Texas (MKT) "Katy" 306

A photograph print showing the Missouri, Kansas & Texas (MKT) "Katy" 306, 4-4-0 (BLW, class E-3), on a northbound passenger train, Elk City, OK. ("neg to Kelley")
Date: August 1, 1937
Creator: George, Preston
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B0307.0024]

Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company.
Date: August 21, 1937
Creator: unknown
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B0125.0050]

Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "H. F. Carmichael, Representative Beckham County - Sayre."
Date: August 19, 1940
Creator: unknown
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B1046.0256]

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "George Peeler, Elk City, chamber of commerce"
Date: August 1, 1953
Creator: unknown
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B0339.0316]

Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper.
Date: August 26, 1953
Creator: unknown
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B0340.0026]

Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "C. C. Killian, Sayre, Beckham County Commissioner"
Date: August 5, 1955
Creator: unknown
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B0360.0796]

Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company.
Date: August 6, 1955
Creator: Miller, Joe
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Stubble Mulch Tillage

Photograph of a close up of stubble mulch tillage of wheat stubble after harvest. Approximately 2000 pounds per acre of wheat stubble left on the soil surface to protect the land from wind and water erosion. Decomposed stubble also adds organic matter to the soil. This practice is recommended by SCS.
Date: August 9, 1956
Creator: McConnell, John
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Stubble Mulch Tillage

Photograph of stubble mulch tillage of wheat stubble after harvest. Approximately 2000 pounds per acre of wheat stubble left on the soil surface to protect the land from wind and water erosion. Decomposed stubble also adds organic matter to the soil. This practice is recommended by the SCS.
Date: August 9, 1956
Creator: McConnell, John
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Stubble Mulch Tillage

Photograph of stubble mulch tillage of wheat stubble after harvest. Approximately 2000 pounds per acre of wheat stubble left on the soil surface to protect the land from wind and water erosion. Decomposed stubble also adds organic matter to the soil. This practice is recommended by the SCS.
Date: August 9, 1956
Creator: McConnell, John
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Terrace Construction

Photograph of Wayburn Gibson, contractor, constructing terraces with caterpillar and bulldozer. Terrace will reduce erosion by reducing runoff. Terrace system was designed by the Soil Conservation Service. Land will be planted to wheat in the fall of 1956.
Date: August 9, 1956
Creator: McConnell, John
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Terrace Construction

Photograph of Wayburn Gibson, contractor, constructing terraces with caterpillar and bulldozer. Terrace will reduce erosion by reducing runoff. Terrace system was designed by the Soil Conservation Service. Land will be planted to wheat in the fall of 1956.
Date: August 9, 1956
Creator: McConnell, John
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Wheat Stubble Mulch Tillage

Photograph of stubble mulch tillage of wheat stubble after harvest. Approximately 2000 pounds per acre of wheat stubble left on the soil surface to protect the land from wind and water erosion. Decomposed stubble also adds organic matter to the soil. This practice is recommended by the SCS.
Date: August 9, 1956
Creator: McConnell, John
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B0372.0464]

Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "And Bob Lindsey, banker, tells how the total of farm loans has shrunk from about 40 percent in his bank, to about 20 percent "not because our farm loans are less, but because other kinds of loans have increased."
Date: August 5, 1958
Creator: unknown
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Brush Control

Photograph of a close up of an area sprayed with 2-4-5T to control the shinnery oak brush. Note condition of the shinnery plants. Sand bluestem and little bluestem are the dominant grasses and their grazing has been deferred during the summer season. The grasses are showing good improvement.
Date: August 8, 1958
Creator: McConnell, John
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Range Improvement by Deferred Grazing

Photograph of the effects of deferred grazing of side oats grama on the Simmons ranch. This grass has not been grazed during 1958 to allow the grass to seed and let the stand become thicker and in general improve the range.
Date: August 8, 1958
Creator: McConnell, John
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B0243.0336]

Photograph taken for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Of the Western Oklahoma Pioneer Reunion in Sayre was Mrs. C. M. Coursey, of Erick , who will observe her 103rd birthday on September 2."
Date: August 19, 1963
Creator: unknown
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B0253.0116]

Photograph taken for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "One of Oklahoma State's starting guards this season should be 208-pound Rod Cutsinger, senior letterman from Elk City."
Date: August 28, 1963
Creator: Albright, Bob
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B0253.0118]

Photograph taken for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper.
Date: August 27, 1964
Creator: Traverse, Austin
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B0253.0086]

Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "HABITUAL RITE for Chief U. S. District Judge Stephen S. Chandler (right) is swearing in Rex Hawks as U. S. Marshal."
Date: August 20, 1965
Creator: Argo, Jim
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Soil Sample Evaluation from Two Different Areas

Photograph of "Two samples of a soil showing the deterioration that [took] place if the cropping system consists mainly of soil-depleting crops. The soil on the left has been used to grow soil-depleting crops year after year over a long period of time. The sample on the right was taken from an area where the soil has been rotated with soil improving crops part of the time."
Date: August 2, 1967
Creator: Frie, J. W.
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B1361.0483]

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "When Apollo 11 astronaut Neil Armstrong planted his "one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind" on the moon's Sea of Tranquility, he did so on a spot painstakingly selected by a former Oklahoma woman."
Date: August 7, 1969
Creator: unknown
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History