Resource Type

[Photograph 2012.201.B0152.0209]

Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "The big ponds in the Washita river watershed started to work this week."
Date: November 2, 1948
Creator: Pyer, Ronald
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B0240.0508]

Photograph taken for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "One of the proudest mothers in the country last week was Mrs. Lou Cordell, surrounded here in here Durham Farm Home by her three sailor boys, all survivors of the U. S. S. Lexington."
Date: July 5, 1942
Creator: Johnson, Bill
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B0240.0513]

Photograph taken for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Durham, tiny Roger Mills county hamlet, welcomed home last week five survivors of the U. S. S. Lexington."
Date: July 5, 1942
Creator: Johnson, Bill
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B0240.0474]

Photograph taken for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Mrs. Cordell samples a glass of the water which she brought from her well on her farm near Durham."
Date: January 19, 1945
Creator: unknown
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Two UNIDENTIFIED Men Controlling A Grass Fire With Portable Fire-Fighting Equipment

Photograph of two UNIDENTIFED men controlling a grass fire with portable fire-fighting units. The back of the photograph proclaims, “Controlling grass fire with portable fire-fighting units on Western Oklahoma range land.”
Date: March 24, 1944
Creator: Jenkins, E. W.
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Sam Gillispie's Farmstead

Photograph of Sam Gillispie's rundown farmstead 6 miles north and 1 mile east of Reydon, OK, in Roger Mills County. Photo by E. W. Jenkins, USDA Soil Conservation Service, April 17, 1941.
Date: April 17, 1941
Creator: Jenkins, E. W.
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

D. W. Polk's Home

Photograph of D. W. Polk's rented house northwest of Roll, OK, in Roger Mills County. Photo by E. W. Jenkins, USDA Soil Conservation Service, April 16, 1941.
Date: April 16, 1941
Creator: Jenkins, E. W.
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B1436.0725]

Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company.
Date: September 26, 1946
Creator: unknown
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Lowell Lawrence Males

Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Photo of Lowell Lawrence Males (L.L. Males).
Date: February 22, 1948
Creator: Killian, Thomas F.
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B0395.0264]

Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company.
Date: March 25, 1949
Creator: McLaughlin, Al
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B0381.0138]

Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company.
Date: July 11, 1946
Creator: unknown
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B1229.0265]

Caption: "Ted Savage, Hammon, Roger Mills County, student at Oklahoma A&M college is such a firm believer in farming that he introduced a bill in the Oklahoma Junior legislature session here requiring that all Oklahoma school children must have four years of agricultural training."
Date: December 27, 1940
Creator: Johnson, Bill
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Red Shale Hills Site in Poor Condition

Photograph of the Red Shale Hills site (soil unit 24-RR) in poor condition, cover mainly of threeawn and weeds amounting to 1800 lb. per acre. The grass clumps are conspicuously tussocked by erosion of the exposed areas between.
Date: November 4, 1949
Creator: Osborn, Ben O.
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Sargeant Major Creek Detention Reservoir #2

Photograph of Detention reservori #2, east 1/2 of Sgt. Major Creek. Drainage acre 1350 acres. Permanent pool - 200 acres of 1. 8 inches. Flood pool 833 acre feet or 7. 4 inches. 18 inch concrete deop inlet - 72,786 cu. Yards of embankment.
Date: October 14, 1949
Creator: Beecham, Glenn A.
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Grass, Legume and Forb Cultivation

Photograph of sideoats grama grass that was seeded in the Spring of 1942 in 36" rows by oil Conservation Services Nursery, Woodward, Oklahoma. Has been cultivated and was mowed for weed control while young. Seed ware combined in 1944 and 1945. OK-9079.
Date: August 28, 1945
Creator: Jenkins, Elvin W.
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Grass, Legume and Forb Cultivation

Photograph of 19 acre seeding of weeping love grass on an old cultivated field for pasture. Seeded in 1941 in rows andcultivated. Seeds were harvested this year [1942]. OK-8456.
Date: December 15, 1942
Creator: Jenkins, Elvin W.
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Fire Damage

Photograph of burning Land Clearance, Cultivation & Brush and Weed Control in Roger Mills County, Okalhoma. OK-8738.
Date: March 24, 1944
Creator: Jenkins, Elvin W.
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Fire Damage

Photograph of the controlling of grass fire with portable fire-fighting units on western Oklahoma Land Clearance, Cultivation & Brush and Weed Control. OK-8749.
Date: March 24, 1944
Creator: Jenkins, Elvin W.
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Grass, Legume and Forb Cultivation

Photograph of grasses. Little Bluestem plants. From left to right: 1 year old grass, 2 year old grass and 3 year old grass. OK-8862.
Date: September 8, 1944
Creator: Jenkins, Elvin W.
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Land Clearance, Cultivation & Brush and Weed Control

Photograph of Camera Station IV (SW corner of NW ¼ of Shinnery Range). Observational studies of Shinnery Oak Ranges. The area is heavily infested with shinnery oak 20 to 24 inches in height with scattered bunches of little bluestem, blue grama and sand love grasses. This 40 acre plot is being burned. Note the difference of native grasses and the heavy stand of shinnery that remains. OK-8734-B.
Date: March 23, 1944
Creator: Jenkins, Elvin W.
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Land Clearance, Cultivation & Brush and Weed Control

Photograph of range cover evaluation plot # 173, in poor condition. Range on red shale hills site (soil unit 24-RR) had 1288 pounds of threeawn grass cover per acre, which was 48% effective in controlling soil splash. Detectability was 28% and the splash itself amounted to 17,869 pounds per acre. OK-10-632.
Date: November 7, 1949
Creator: Osborn, Ben
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Land Clearance, Cultivation & Brush and Weed Control

Photograph of Camera Station IV (SW corner of NW ¼ of Shinnery Range). Observational studies of Shinnery Oak Ranges. The area is heavily infested with shinnery oak 20 to 24 inches in height with scattered bunches of little bluestem, blue grama and sand love grasses. This 40 acre plot was burned on March 24, 1944 and will be stocked with 8 steers. OK-8734-C.
Date: March 24, 1944
Creator: Jenkins, Elvin W.
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Land Clearance, Cultivation & Brush and Weed Control

Photograph of camera Station II from the top of a car. In the southeast corner of the southwest ¼ of shinnery oak range. Observational studies. Area of shinnery averaging about 20 inches in height with scattered bunches of little bluestem, blue grama and love grasses. This 40 acre plot will be moved in June, 1944. Each of the three 40 acre plots will be treated and each plot will stocked with 8 steers of equal size and quality. OK-8732.
Date: March 24, 1944
Creator: Jenkins, Elvin W.
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Land Clearance, Cultivation & Brush and Weed Control

Photograph of U.S. Government, Camera Station V (Southeast ¼ Shinnery Range. 25 rods north of fence between two pastures and 25 rods east of fence along the road). Observational studies of Shinnery Oak Ranges. Area is heavily infested with shinnery oak shrubs 20 to 24 inches in height with scattered bunches of little bluestem, blue grama and sand love grass. This 40 acre plot was burned on March 24, 1944 and will be stocked with 8 steers. OK-8735-B.
Date: March 24, 1944
Creator: Jenkins, Elvin W.
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History