Photograph taken for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Floyd Craig, Cordell businessman, checks saddle on his horse during preparations for four-county pioneer celebration Saturday."

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Football's fun for Denise Green, 4, of Cordell"

Photograph taken for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Dr. S. Tisdal Jones, Cordell physician, will be in character but dressed in pioneer clothes for the celebration."

Photograph taken for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Mrs. Robert McClary, a president of the Cordell Chamber of Commance, will ride her horse, Babe, in the parade. The observance will mark the 77th anniversary of the Cheyenne-Arapaho land run."

Photograph taken for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Cranking up for Cordell's pioneer day celebration Saturday is Mrs. Joyce Medlin with a 1931 Model A Ford owned by Charles Betche of Gotebo, standing."

Photograph taken for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "The role of Mrs. Carl Clevenger, a 57-year resident, will be to sit immobile in a ladies dress shop and startle onlookers by winking or smiling."

Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Camps (for underprivileged children) Colony, Okla."

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "A grotto was built in Canute's Catholic cemeterey during the 1920's by early day settler Frank Flies."

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "CAROLYN SCHMIDT, who is the Oklahoma magazine cover girl for the third time this Sunday, has just started a new adventure. She's through school and out on her own, and has just finshed the first few weeks of her first school teaching job."

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "The excitment was nearly too much for Cordell cheerleader Janet Sheperd to bear."

Photograph of a drop inlet on Cloud Creek watershed operating after a 4. 6 inch rain in 4 hours. This drop inlet is above Detention Reservoir No. 1. Very little of the one inch flood storage was used. A 48 inch pipe is through the dam and the 280 acre drainage area had good land treatment on it.

Photograph of flooding occuring in the city limits of Cordell downstream from the proposed site 24, Calvary watershed.

Photograph of terrace outlet channel under construction. Channel will be widened, shaped and sodded. Vegetation will be allowed to become well-established before terrace water is emptied into it. Terraces will be constructed in the field and will empty into channel from both sides. Mr. Ray Murrell, Work Unit Conservationist, and Mr. Paul Hertzler, farm owner, examine a conservation survey map on which the location of the channel and terraces are indicated. OK-8916.

Photograph of Mr. Ray C. Murrell, Work Unit Conservationist [WUC] and farm owner, & Paul Hertaler examine a conservation survey map showing where Hertaler's terraces will be constructed. Hertaler is building a terrace outlet channel that will be vegetated before his terraces are constructed. He uses the tractor and homemade bulldozer to shape channels, make terrace fills, etc. OK-8944.

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Jim Weichel's leather welding jacket is one of his wife's original designs."

Photograph of detention reservoir # 2, Cloud Creek, one hour after a 4.6 inch rain fell in 4 hours. No water was discharged past the dam. There was approximately 1.2 inches of runoff. The earth embankment is 32,315 cubic yards. The drainage area is 600 acres. The permanent pool is 7.5 acres. 70 acre-feet storage and 1.4 inches [depth of water coverage?]. The flood pool is 18.6 surface acres. 113 acre feet storage 2.3 inches [depth of water coverage?]. Cost is $16,661.00. Benefit / cost ratio is 5.3 / 1. See OK-9541 and OK 9542. OK-10, 011.

Photograph of a drop inlet on the Cloud Creek watershed operating after a 4.6 inch rain in 4 hours. This drop inlet is above Detention Reservoir # 1. Very little of the one inch flood storage was used. A 48 inch pipe runs through the dam and the 280 acre drainage area had good land treatment on it. OK-10, 012.

Photograph of five UNIDIENTIFIED men on a bridge looking down at a deep gully. The back of the photograph proclaims, "View downstream from scene in Okla-10-778-A, showing gully head and bridge being demolished on county road 4 miles west of Bessie, Okla. A road fill with a drop inlet pipe will be constructed."

Photograph of an aerial shot upstream from a flood seen in Olka-10-013, Okla-10-015, Okla-10-016, Okla-10-018, and Okla-10-021, which was at its highest point when this photo was taken. The back of the photograph proclaims, "The flood shown in Olka-10-013, Okla-10-015, Okla-10-016, Okla-10-018, and Okla-10-021 on the Washita River was developed from rains below this point on the Washita. This photo was taken of the river at the highest stage during the flood lower down at Mountain View, Carneige [sic], Fort Cobb, and Anadarko."

Photograph of Tom Lucas and an excellent crop of Kefir corn on contour in a former 5 acre area of severely gullied natural draw where the owner had never planted a crop. An erosion control dam was constructed across the draw in 1957 and in two years the land was producing crops. To date the draw has silted approximately by 5 feet, says Mr. Lucas. OK-8909

Photograph of an excellent crop of Kafir corn on contour in former 5 acre area of severely gullied natural draw where owner had never made a crop. An erosion control dam was constructed across the deaw in 1937 and in two years the land was producing crops. To date the draw has silted in approximately 5 feet says Mr. Lucas.

Photograph of Mr. Ray C. Murrell Work Unit Conservationist, and farm owner, Paul Hertzler looking over a conservation survey map for the future building of terraces and terrace outlet channel. A Tractor and barn are directly behind Murrell and Hertzler. People shown in photo go as followed from left to right: 1. Ray C. Murrell, 2. Paul Hertzler. The back of the photograph proclaims, "Farm planning. Mr. Ray C. Murrell, Work Unit Conservationist, and farm owner, Paul Hertzler examines a conservation survey map showing where Hertzler's terraces will be constructed. Hertzler is building a terrace outlet channel that will be vegetated before his terraces are constructed. He uses the tractor and homemade bulldozer to shape channels, make terrace fills, etc."

Photograph of an excellent crop of Kafir corn on contour in former 5 acre area of severely gullied natural draw where owner had never made a crop. An erosion control dam was constructed across the deaw in 1937 and in two years the land was producing crops. To date the draw has silted in approximately 5 feet says Mr. Lucas.