Photograph of a large alkali spot and gullies in a field that has been abandoned for five years. The original cover was good blue stem grass with a heavy sod and was broken out for cultivation in 1909. OK-5616.

Photograph of a large alkali spot and gullies in a field that has been abandoned for five years. The original cover was good blue stem grass with a heavy sod and was broken out for cultivation in 1909. OK-5616.

Photograph of an UNIDENTIFIED farmer with horse drawn equipment constructing contour ridges on 60 acres of land, which is being retired from cultivation. The back of the photograph proclaims, "Farmer constructing contour ridges on 60 acres of land which is being retired from cultivation. This is to be put to Bermuda grass and used for permanent pasture. The ridge are being built with three rounds of long winged Kelly plow."

Photograph of an UNIDENTIFED farmer with horse drawn equipment constructing contour ridges on 60 acres of land being retired from cultivation. The back of the photograph proclaims, "Farmer constructing contour ridges on 60 acres of land which is being retired from cultivation. This is to be put to Bermuda grass and used for permanent pasture. The ridges are being built with these rounds of a long winged Kelly plow."

Photograph of the Deers Chapel School, McIntosh County, OK, February 22, 1956.

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Cement finishers work atop spillway at the gigantic Eufaula Dam, which will rise only about four feet higher at this point. The men are 110 feet above the ground."

Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Lake Eufaula dam under construction"

Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story.

Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story.

Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Stigler police officer Vernon Phillips uses a flashlight to search for footprints of a prison escapee before dawn today along U.S. 69 south of Eufaula in McIntosh County."

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Workers grinding food for a meal wore a hole in this rock displayed by Checotah rancher Lee Woodard."

Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Squeezing out the last moments of sunlit splashing before autumn lowered the boom on Oklahoma Sunday night, these three Moore boys frolicked in 90-ish temperatures at Lake Eufaula. Damon Steele, 10, left, races ahead of brother Eric, 13, with Danny Shupe, 11, close behind."

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "When gates are closed at Eufaula Dam, the old fallen tree is high and dry but still draws a crowd."

Funeral Program for Leslie J. Williams.

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "High water level may give Eufaula Dam anglers the benefit of a good tailwaters release over the holiday weekend."

Funeral program for Lula Mae Miller.