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New Zealand Railway (NZR) J1241

A photograph print of New Zealand Railway (NZR) J1241, 4-8-2, standing in front of the Dunedin locomotive depot.
Date: January 25, 1948
Creator: Rockliff, Stanley Arthur
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Missouri, Kansas & Texas (MKT) "Katy" 530 & 483 (neg)

A photograph negative showing Missouri, Kansas & Texas (MKT) "Katy" 530 and 483, both 2-6-0's, double-heading on a southbound freight, south of Carter, OK, 42 cars, 30 mph.
Date: July 25, 1948
Creator: George, Preston
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific (RI) 2645 (neg)

A photograph negative showing the Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific (CRIP, RI, or ROCK) 2645, 2-8-2, on eastbound freight, leaving Elk City, OK, 35 cars, 30 mph.
Date: July 25, 1948
Creator: George, Preston
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

St. Louis & San Francisco (SLSF) "Frisco" 1109

A photograph print (& Negative)showing the St. Louis and San Francisco (SLSF) "Frisco" 1109, 4-6-0, on No. 403, west of Headrick, OK, 3 cars, 35 mph.
Date: September 25, 1948
Creator: George, Preston
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Sideoats Grama Grass Seed Harvesting

Photograph of John Schieber, combine driver, and Dick Whetsell, Soil Conservation Service range conservationist using a John Deere combine to harvest sideoats grama seeds. People shown in photo go as followed from left to right: 1. John Schieber, combine driver, 2. Dick Whetsell, Soil Conservation Service range conservationist. The back of the photograph proclaims, “John Schieber, combine driver, and Dick Whetsell, Soil Conservation Service range conservationist. Note the seed heads of sideoats grama grass in front of the combine. The harvest was done under contract with the Soil Conservation Service.”
Date: August 25, 1948
Creator: Reid, Louis
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Outside View of Osage Park Fair Grounds Building Turned Temporary Seed Drying Facility

Photograph of a fair grounds building four miles south of Pawhuska used as a place where the Soil Conservation Service is spreading native grass seed to dry during the fall harvest. The back of the photograph proclaims, “Building where the Soil Conservation Service spread native grass seed to dry during the fall harvest.”
Date: August 25, 1948
Creator: Reid, Louis
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Big Bluestem and Other Miscellaneous Grasses

Photograph of an excellent stand of big bluestem grass. The back of the photograph proclaims, "Excellent stand of big bluestem grass. Note a native legume at the lower left. Some Indiangrass and little bluestem was also in this mixture."
Date: August 25, 1948
Creator: Reid, Louis
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Sideoats Grama Grass Cleaning

Photograph of Fred Pangburn, Dale Neighbors, and Jack Gaffney running sideoats grama grass through a scalper to clean out trash. People shown in photo go as followed from left to right: 1. Fred Pangburn, 2. Dale Neighbors, 3. Jack Gaffney. The back of the photograph proclaims, "Running sideoats grama grass material through a scalper to clean out trash. In the background are sacks of the seed. Left to right in the picture are Fred Pangburn, Dale Neighbors and Jack Gaffney, all of Pawhuska. All through the harvest these boys worked as temporary Soil Conservation Service employes [sic]."
Date: August 25, 1948
Creator: Reid, Louis
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Dale Neighbors and Jack Gaffney Unloading Sideoats Grass Seed from a Truck

Photograph of Dale Neighbors and Jack Gaffney unloading sideoats grass seed from a truck in order to spread it out to dry. People shown in photo go as followed from left to right: 1. Dale Neighbors, 2. Jack Gaffney. The back of the photograph proclaims, "Unloading a truck filled with sideoats grass seed fresh from the combines. On the ground is Dale Neighbors; Jack Gaffney is in the truck. Both men are working for the Soil Conservation Service and live in Pawhuska. The seed is being spread out to dry."
Date: August 25, 1948
Creator: Reid, Louis
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Sideoats Grama Grass Seed Harvesting

Photograph of John Schieber, combine driver, and Dick Whetsell, Soil Conservation Service range conservationist using a John Deere combine to harvest sideoats grama seeds. People shown in photo go as followed from left to right: John Schieber, combine driver, and Dick Whetsell, Soil Conservation Service range conservationist. The back of the photograph proclaims, "John Schieber, combine driver, and Dick Whetsell, Soil Conservation Service range conservationist. Note the seed heads of sideoats grama grass in front of the combine. The harvest was done under contract with the Soil Conservation Service."
Date: August 25, 1948
Creator: Reid, Louis
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Sideoats Grama Grass Cleaning

Photograph of Fred Pangburn, Dale Neighbors, and Jack Gaffney running sideoats grama grass through a scalper to clean out trash. People shown in photo go as followed from left to right: Fred Pangburn, Dale Neighbors, and Jack Gaffney. The back of the photograph proclaims, "Running sideoats grama grass material through a scalper to clean out trash. In the background are sacks of the seed. Left to right in the picture are Fred Pangburn, Dale Neighbors and Jack Gaffney, all of Pawhuska. All through the harvest these boys worked as temporary Soil Conservation Service employes [sic]."
Date: August 25, 1948
Creator: Reid, Louis
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Sideoats Grama Grass Cleaning

Photograph of Fred Pangburn, Dale Neighbors, and Jack Gaffney running sideoats grama grass through a scalper to clean out trash. People shown in photo go as followed from left to right: Fred Pangburn, Dale Neighbors, and Jack Gaffney. The back of the photograph proclaims, "Running sideoats grama grass material through a scalper to clean out trash. In the background are sacks of the seed. Left to right in the picture are Fred Pangburn, Dale Neighbors and Jack Gaffney, all of Pawhuska. All through the harvest these boys worked as temporary Soil Conservation Service employes [sic]."
Date: August 25, 1948
Creator: Reid, Louis
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

John Schieber and Dick Whetsell Harvesting Sideoats Grama Grass on the Foreman Faulkner Ranch

Photograph of combine driver John Schieber and range conservationist for the Soil Conservation Service at Pawhuska Dick Whetsell harvesting sideoats grama grass with a John Deere combine on Foreman Faulkner Ranch. People shown in photo go as followed from left to right: 1. John Schieber, 2. Dick Whetsell. The back of the photograph proclaims, "John Schieber, combine driver, and Dick Whetsell, range conservationist for the Soil Conservation Service at Pawhuska, in the sideoats grama grass harvest. Yields here averaged 25 to 40 pounds to the acre. The work was done under contract with the Soil Conservation Service."
Date: August 25, 1948
Creator: Reid, Louis
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Jim Greer Harvesting Sideoats Grama With a Self-Propelled Combine on the Foreman Faulkner Ranch

Photograph of Jim Greer harvesting sideoats grama with a self-propelled combine on the Foreman Faulkner Ranch. The back of the photograph proclaims, "Jim Greer of Red Rock harvests side oats [sic] grama with a self-propelled combine. Yields averaged 25 to 40 pounds to the acre. The work was done under contract with the Soil Conservation Service. The Seed is to be planted into the Washita River watershed as part of the flood control project in progress there."
Date: August 25, 1948
Creator: Reid, Louis
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Big Bluestem and Other Miscellaneous Grasses

Photograph of an excellent stand of big bluestem grass. The back of the photograph proclaims, "Excellent stand of big bluestem grass. Note a native legume at the lower left. Some Indiangrass and little bluestem was also in this mixture."
Date: August 25, 1948
Creator: Reid, Louis
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Clarence E. Bunch and A Field of Big Bluestem Grasses

Photograph of "Clarence E. Bunch, flood control agronomist for the Washita River watershed who was in charge of native grasses seed harvest in Northeast Oklahoma, stands in excellent big bluestem."
Date: August 25, 1948
Creator: Reid, Louis
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Farming Equipment and Methods

Photograph of a tiller used to harvest Bermuda grass roots. Property of Northern Hughes County Soil Conservation District. This piece of machinery has proved to be very satisfctory. Side delivery rake is used to winnow the roots. OK-9708.
Date: August 25, 1948
Creator: Davis, T. J.
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.10992]

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Here's how 6,000 pints of sized whisky-$20,000 worth-went down the drain early Thanksgiving day. The steel bed of the pickup truck served not only as a bin for broken glass but also the means of breaking the bottles. Shown left to right, heaving bottles at the truck, are Vigil McCann, jail trusty; George Fowler, deputy sheriff; M. L. Dodson, another trusty, and Guy Bauguess, a deputy."
Date: November 25, 1948
Creator: Meek, Richard B.
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.9679]

Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "(Street view photo of "Carl Ticer" equipment store, outside display of products, sign at middle left for "Massey Harris M-H," and more)"
Date: March 25, 1948
Creator: Tapscott, George
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.5639]

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "These aerial pictures tell the story of Woodwards rebuilding. The upper left quarter of both veiws show the section hardest hit by the wind. Above: the area is dotted with new houses, and business buildings in the foreground are of the latest design and construction. In the picture at the right, taken early on the morning of April 10, 1947, the destruction is clearly shown. Nearly 100 blocks were swept by the storm. Not one hosue or business buildiong shown here escaped the force of the wind. About 80 percent of all casualties in the storm were taken from this northwest section of town. It bore the brunt of the wind's fury, but death, injury and damage resulted in every section."
Date: March 25, 1948
Creator: Tapscott, George
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.9681]

Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "(Street view photo of a main road going to downtown at middle left background, housing at right, silo in the middle right background, and more.)"
Date: March 25, 1948
Creator: Tapscott, George
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.7480]

Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "(photo from a boat/shore is boat docks/stalls, some possibly still under construction, and more)"
Date: June 25, 1948
Creator: Tapscott, George
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.9680]

Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "(Street view photo of a neighborhood, church at middle left, housing from middle left to middle right, a silo in the middle left background, and more.)"
Date: March 25, 1948
Creator: Tapscott, George
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.9026]

Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "(aerial photo with dorms/barracks at top left, buildings at top right, housing and roads at bottom, housing at top left, and more)"
Date: July 25, 1948
Creator: East, Bob
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History