A daylight photograph of a fire at Claremore in Rogers County, Oklahoma. Onlookers watch as firemen endure intense smoke while battling a fire in the Claremore business district. Black wax pencil and editing marks are visible on the image. Caption: "Claremore business district blazes under clouds of dense smoke Friday."

Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Kyle raises sheep"

Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "First Woman ROTC student at Oklahoma Military Academy, Claremore, is Debbie Garner, Pryor."

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "In Training -- In preparation for future protest marches on the Black Fox nuclear reactor site near Inola, members of the Sunbelt Alliance practice non-violent reaction during a training session Saturday."

Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "FLYING TOUR of Thunderbirds training in the field Sunday was made by Brig. Gen. Fred Daugherty, new commanding general of the 45th division."

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "The big Blue Whale at Catoosa has been a roadside landmark for generations."

A daylight photograph of a fire in the business district at Claremore in Rogers County, Oklahoma. Black and red wax pencil marks are visible on the image. Caption: "Claremore business district blazes under clouds of dense smoke Friday."

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "The first commercial barge to travel the full length of the Arkansas River Navigation System docked at the Port of Catoosa at Tulsa on Jan. 21, 1971. The barge was carrying 650 tons of newsprint."

Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Port of Catossa backside dock and warehouse under construction."

Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Memorial-Will Rogers-claremore, okla."

Photograph of brush eridication. A bulldozer with a special pointed cuter blade is pushing over large oak trees. This land being cleared will be established as permenant pasture. It is virgin land and is non-productive while the brush is on it. When cleared, the land will be sodded to bermuda grass. The cost of this clearing is approximately $40.00 per acre. This brush eradication and pasture establishment is recommended by the Soil Conservation Service [SCS] as proper land use practice. OK-290-7.

Photograph of stockwater, A.C. Hanes farm. Some of Hanes’ dairy cows getting water from a watering trough below the farm pond seen in photo OK-291-11. This pond is fenced to keep cows out the pond so the water can be kept clean. Water in the pond is used to irrigate rye and vetch pasture which is grazed by these dairy cows. The dam with the [path?] to the trough is seen in the foreground. OK-291-1.

Photograph of Sericea Lespedeza. Sericea Lespedeza grazed heavily and used for hay since 1952. It was planted in 1950. Sericea is a good soil-building and pasture legume fir a cross timber site such as the one it is on. It was recommended for this site by the Soil Conservation Service. OK-289-12.

Photograph of sericea lespedeza. Hereford cattle grazing on a field of sericea lespedeza. This field of 30 acres is carrying 30 cows and calves. It was retired from cultivation in 1950 because it was solid in Johnson grass. The field was seeded with sericea lespedeza and has been used for hay and pasture since retirement from cultivation. At present the Johnson grass is almost killed off. OK-291-7.

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "U.S. Rep. Clem McSpadden, Morris Pack, Chelsea Okla."