Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Looking East from city hall."

Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "When the Chickasha Kiwanis auction gets underway, the auctioneers will have a lot of help from OCW students."

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper.

Photograph taken for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Wallace Dowling, mayor of Rush Springs, takes time off every day to check the city's mew water system that pulls water from the stream feeding the springs that gave the city its name."

Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Swollen Washita Stalls Traffic Into Chickasha Hundreds of automobiles, trucks and wheat combines lined U.S. 81 north and south of Chickasha Friday morning awaiting the Washita river to recede."

Photograph of a field, which the contour pasture ridges have become vegetated. An UNIDENTIFIED town, possibly Ninnekah, is visible in the background. The back of the photograph proclaims, “Contour pasture ridges which have become well vegetated.”

Photograph of a giant watermelon in Rush Springs, OK, titled, "Watermelon Capitol of the World," June 20, 1972.

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Here are principals in the Grady county probe by a grand jury which Wednesday indicted Justice of Peace Calvin Strother of Chickasha for embezzlement."

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "NAMEDdistrict judge for Caddo and Grady County Friday was Sam M. Williams, Chickasha Democrat."

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

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "District Judge L.A. Woods, above, overrules County Attorney Wilson Smithen's attempts to block an inquiry into his fitness to participate in a Chickasha grand jury probe."

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Calvin Strother, justice of peace and legal advisor to a group of citizens whose petition resulted in a county grand jury, Wednesday was indicted by that jury on two counts of embezzlement."

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Miss Rodeo Oklahoma contestants will be welcomed to Chickasha Wednesday by Sarah Smith, right, Chickasha Roundup Club queen, and Judy Barnard, arlternate queen."

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Preparing to bottle it out in court at Chickasha Saturday are Justice of Peace Calvin Strother, left, and Grady County Attorney Wilson Smithen, right."

Photograph of a badly eroded area in pasture land on Renfrow soil. Washita River Conservation Survey, W-20.

Photograph of Kirkland Silt loam (316) soil profile. Washita River Conservation Survey, W-20.

Photograph of soil profile of Grant silt loam (#40). Washita River Conservation Survey, W-20.

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "There was nothing sensational "or outstanding" in his career, said Waldo Wettengel, who retired recently after serving almost half his lifetime as Rush Springs postmaster."

Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper.

Photograph of Mr. R. J. Chance, Project Manager, Chickasha, Oklahoma, Mr. Sam Durham, Extension Service Grass Specialist, Mr. Gray, and Mr. Hickey inspecting grass work done by the Chickasha Soil Conservation Service Project near or on Katie Maden's farm. The order of the following men goes from left to right as follows: 1. Mr. R. J. Chance, Project Manager, Chickasha, Oklahoma, 2. Mr. Gray, 3. Mr. Sam Durham, Extension Service Grass Specialist, 4. Mr. Hickey. The back of the photograph proclaims, “Photograph of Mr. R. J. Chance, Project Manager, Chickasha, Oklahoma, Mr. Sam Durham, Extension Service Grass Specialist, Mr. Gray, and Mr. Hickey inspecting grass work done by the Chickasha Soil Conservation Service Project. 40 Acres abandoned field planted to native grass. Field was contour ridged and seeded in Spring of 1936. Picture shows Little Blue Stem planting in Spring of 1937 on ¼ of the field. Special attention is given to tiny seedlings coming from the parent plants the second season. 30# per acres was planted.”

Photograph of a "Large area of contour furrowed pasture. Furrows are built 1 ½ years ago."

Photograph of "Mr. Gray, Mr. Sam Durham, Extension Service Grass Specialist, and Mr. R. J. Chance, Project Manager, Chickasha, Oklahoma, inspecting grass contour buffer strip in the Chickasha, Oklahoma project area." People shown in photo go as followed from left to right: 1. R. J. Chance, Project Manager, Chickasha, Oklahoma, 2. Mr. Sam Durham, Extension Service Grass Specialist, 3. Mr. Chester Gray.

Photograph of "Stock cattle on the Olie Hale farm 3 ½ miles east of Rush Springs grazing weeping lovegrass seeded in May 1948. This is a coarse textured sandy soil and this field had cropped with peanuts for several years."

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "The Tuttle Tiger, the high school mascot, listens to the radio during last Tuesday's basketball game against Crooked Oak."