Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Claremore's modernistic $330,000 health center will be opened with dedication services Sunday, climaxing five years work and planning by Rogers county citizens."

Photograph of the Indian Trading Post in Catoosa, OK on Right of Way property, on US 66 November 9, 1955.

Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "We'll form the regiment like this," cadet Col. Edward Bushyhead."

Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "H. Tom Kight jr., Claremore, was sworn in Monday as a new state highway commissioner."

Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "A&M president Oliver S. William, center, presents a duplicate diploma to A. E. Jarrell, right, only surviving member of the first Aggie graduating class of 1896."

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

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "INSPECTION OF OMA, in Claremore, will be made Wednesday by Maj. Gen. Mark McClure."

Photograph of a chicken coop at Della E. McCustian's home, mile 1-11-10, Will Rogers Turnpike, Rogers County, OK, June 8, 1955.

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Mrs. Mary E. Lawrence, a rural school teacher from Claremore with 51 years in the classroom, Friday night was named "Teacher of the Year" at the annual Oklahoma Education association get-to-gether at the state fair."

Photograph of a graded boreder irrigation system of 400 acres. Water is pumped from the Verdigris River at H.E. corner of 400 acre field. Water is shown running from feeder ditch through border to field tabs. Field to left of electric fence is in rye and vetch and has had one irrigation. An additional 300 acres will be leveled smoothed ditched and bordered and put into irrgation in 1956. The system provides drainage as well as irrigation.

Photograph of Art Hanes, member of the Board of supervisors of Rogers Soil Conservation District with Brillion cultipacker seeder. OK-197-8.

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 Ed Hausenfluck, member of the Board of Supervisors of the Rogers County Soil Conservation District with a Pasture Dream sodland drill. OK-197-12.

Photograph of Mr. Clyde Fraley, Chair, Board of Supervisors of the Rogers County Soil Conservation District standing by a Pasture Dream sodland drill. OK-197-6.

Photograph of Merrill Intaman, member of the Board of Supervisors of the Rogers Soil Conservation District with 2-row automatic Bermuda sprig planter. OK-197-10.

Photograph of a squirrel nest in a black locust tree which was planted on a spoils bank in 1947. Volunteer plants include silver bluestem grass, weeds, cottonwood and willow trees. OK-189-9.

Photograph of an old elm tree growing on a side of a hill that was called the Land Mark Tree by Cherokees who settled the Cooweescoowee District after the Civil War. The tree was seemingly as large when the area was settled by whites in 1893 [i.e., the 1893 Land Run, the 4th of 5 between 1889 and 1895] as it is today. Tall prairie grasses that would hide a steer grew on the hill in the valley below in 1893. It was in an overgrazed pasture from about 1900 to about 1950. The old territorial road passed within 50 feet of the tree (in foreground). A generation of trees--elm, ash, hackberry, etc.--has grown to maturity along the creek and died, replaced now by another general [sic], but this Land Mark Tree lives on with many of its roots exposed. OK-109-9.

Photograph of 160 acres of Class VIII land in spoils banks, which have been seeded in sweet clover, Korean lespedeza and mixed clovers by airplane. Seeding done by Frank Podpechan, Manager, Sequoyah Coal Company. OK-192-1.

Photograph of spoils banks from land formally strip-mined in 1947 located on Todd Fugate's property. The back of the photograph proclaims, "Spoils banks from land strip mined in 1947. Fugate intended to smooth spoils banks and sod bermudagrass for pasture, but gave up after spending $105.00 on dozer work and got only the one spoils bank leveled which is shown in photo. He sowed Korean lespedeza and is waiting for more weathering of shale before sodding Bermuda. What he has in spoils banks is mostly wasteland or Class VIII land of questionable value for wildlife."

Photograph of graded Border Irrigation System. (4300 Acre). Water is pumped from Verdigris River at N. E. corner of 400 acre field. Water is shown running from feeder ditch through border to field tabs. Field to left of electric fence is in rye and vetch and has had one irrigation. An additional 300 acres will be leveled smoothed ditched and bordered and put into irrigation in 1956. The system designed provides drainage as well as irrigation.