Resource Type

Wedding

Photograph of the marriage of Dick Byrd and Ida Walker in front of the Walker home, Stonewall, Indian Territory.
Date: May 20, 1899
Creator: unknown
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Baptism

Photograph of a Baptism, Stonewall, Indian Territory, May 15, 1904.
Date: May 15, 1904
Creator: unknown
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B0319.0272]

Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "File Photo"
Date: May 22, 1929
Creator: unknown
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B0357.0336]

Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Bud Ellison, who as a boy tended bar in his father's saloon at young's crossing"
Date: May 6, 1930
Creator: unknown
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B0357.0335]

Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Bud" Ellison, Ada - pioneer"
Date: May 18, 1930
Creator: unknown
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B0247.0208]

Photograph taken for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper.
Date: May 20, 1937
Creator: Kaho, C. J.
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Ada, OK

Photograph of an aerial view, looking southwest, of Ada, OK.
Date: May 14, 1939
Creator: Barnes Aerial Surveys
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Ada, OK

Photograph of an aerial view, looking southeast, of Ada, OK.
Date: May 14, 1939
Creator: Barnes Aerial Surveys
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B1432.0302]

Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company.
Date: May 18, 1940
Creator: unknown
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B1265.0067]

Caption: "And here's another picture of a highway near Ada after the hail storm left the road looking like a winter scene from a caldndar."
Date: May 26, 1940
Creator: unknown
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B0240.0294]

Photograph taken for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Best fleece at the Oklahoma Lamb and Wool show held Friday in the coliseum, was shown by Carlton Corbin, Ada, shown above with the fleece, from a Lincoln-Rambouillet cross."
Date: May 1, 1943
Creator: Stockwell, Bill
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B0319.0276]

Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "File Photo"
Date: May 12, 1949
Creator: McLaughlin, Al
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B0319.0303]

Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Dean W. B. Morrison dean of college East Central."
Date: May 12, 1949
Creator: McLaughlin, Al
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Tower Drive-In Theatre

Photograph of the Tower Drive-In Theatre, Ada, OK.
Date: May 2, 1950
Creator: Tipton, Ray
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B0240.0613]

Photograph taken for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Ada Jr. High journalism teacher."
Date: May 5, 1950
Creator: unknown
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B0376.0203]

Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Mr. Gene Lowe East Central senior has set a record that he believes is hard to beat."
Date: May 18, 1951
Creator: unknown
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B0283.0076]

Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Cy Hailey - Pontotoc County Agent Ada"
Date: May 2, 1952
Creator: unknown
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B0319.0299]

Photograph taken for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Sunny days in East Central's rock garden bring out the beauty of the campus. Above, Janie Fleming, left, Paoli, and Gayle Harper, Seminole, relax on one of the terraces."
Date: May 21, 1953
Creator: Albright, Bob
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B0319.0300]

Photograph taken for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Wagon wheels are used throughout the rock garden at East Central as trellis for climbing plants."
Date: May 21, 1953
Creator: Albright, Bob
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B0297.0136]

Photograph taken for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Miss Nell Dean, Director of the Reading Laboratory at East Central State College, is shown testing a fifth grader before beginning a remedial instruction program."
Date: May 29, 1955
Creator: unknown
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Grass, Legume and Forb Cultivation

Photograph of range seeding. This 30 acres grew corn in 1948. To simplify fencing for management of adjacent rangeland, C. C. Buxton Jr. planted 10 pounds (20% PLS [Pure Live Seed]) of a bluestem mixture in April, 1949 on a clean, firm seedbed. Moved annual weeds twice in 1949 and once in 1950. Grazed moderately in the winter of 1950 and thereafter according to the Range Conservation Plan prepared jointly by Soil Conservation Service [SCS] and the owners. OK-261-6.
Date: May 7, 1956
Creator: McConnell, John
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Grass, Legume and Forb Cultivation

Photograph of a prairie site in excellent condition. Condition class “Excellent” as graded by the Soil Conservation Service’s range standards. Climax grasses account for 85% of the range: Little bluestem, Indian grass, switch grass and Big bluestem. 5% is legumes: Trailing lespedeza, slender lespedeza, white prairie clover, and catclaw sensitive-briar. 5% is forb cultivation: Pitcher’s sage, Fringe-leaf ruellia and heath aster. 5% being all other annuals. OK-261-4.
Date: May 7, 1956
Creator: McConnell, John
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Grass, Legume and Forb Cultivation

Photograph of uniform grazing. In an area of underused range grasses, Mr. D.L. Stanford drills a wall, installs a freeze-proof pump, a pipe to a water tank, with overflow pipe taking surplus water to an earthen tank for emergency resevoir, thus aiding uniform use according to Conservation Plan. OK-261-12.
Date: May 8, 1956
Creator: McConnell, John
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Land Clearance, Cultivation & Brush and Weed Control

Photograph of brush control. 1 pound of 2-4-5T herbicide in 5 gallons of diesel oil, first sprayed in April, 1955. This shown here is a respray performed in May, 1955. Persimmon are very erratic, with the respray often needed. Velton Stanford is giving the second “shot,” so bluestem grass can find a place to grow. OK-262-6.
Date: May 8, 1956
Creator: McConnell, John
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History