Photograph of aerial view to the City Service Company compressor plant at Straight in the Oklahoma Panhandle was built iin the midst of the wheat growing area in 1944. The first year, the company had a great deal of trouble from blowing dust. The Soil Conservation District helped them get a start of buffalo and other grasses, however, and now the entire 160 acres surrounding the plant is tied down with grass.

Photograph of Dr. J.E. Morgan, eye, ear and nose specialist, shows how he treats his patients after a dust storm in the Oklahoma Panhandle. Sinus patients are affected tremendously by dust, the doctor says. Dr. G.E. Haslan at Anadarko said the March dust storm in his area caused him to have 3 or 4 times more patients than in normal times. He had so many patients he couldn't keep up withthem all land had to have other doctors to help out.

Photograph of Dr. Morgan treating a female patient who is laying on a table, with various equipment visible in the room: "Dr. J. E. Morgan, eye, ear and nose specialist, shows how he treats his patients after a dust storm in the Oklahoma Panhandle. Sinus patients are affected tremendously by dust, the doctor says."

Photograph of virgin soil kept in place by Yucca plants, where about four feet of soil has been removed. This is an undisturbed pasture area which has been overgrazed.

Photograph of a one way plow covered by sand from the field. Pictures of this type are quite common in the Panhandle area. This plow is covered by the soil which it helped remove. One way plows are to be blamed for much of the destruction of cultivated wheat fields.

Photograph of a view of a field from which the top soil has been removed. The lister marks of two years cultivation are plainly visible in the picture. The structure, (hexagon) of the subsoil is also shown by this picture.

Photograph of Norman Fischer sitting on a tractor and showing how a sub-surface tillage implement operates. The original photograph sleeve proclaims, "Norman Fischer, one of Louis Fischer's three sons who operate farm with him, shows how sub-surface tillage implement operates, cutting weed roots, loosening soil and mixing residue into surface. This type of equipment is coming into greater use as a means of controlling wind erosion in west Oklahoma blow areas. This tillage also helps control water erosion, which Norman says sometimes does more damage quicker than wind erosion. II HP 2-K."

Photograph of Stillwater Creek pouring over State Highway 40. Same highway had water eight feet deep flowing over the roads in the watershed.

Photograph of a three-row orchard windbreak. Mulberry on left, Chinese3 Elm in center, and Juniper on right. Note the dominance of the elm in spite of its being in position where it would tend to be submerged on account of competition.

Photograph of wheat on terraced land which has been killed by drifting soil from adjoining fields. Soil moisture penetration 27 inches at seeding time, Oct. 1, 1936.

Photograph of blown soil accumulations in Russian Thistles in highway now 4 feed deep. This was caused by allowing thistles to grow along side of the highway which caught soil moved by wing from the adjoining field.

Photograph of Fischer’s Wheat Bowl Farm, Hooker, Oklahoma. side view showing V-shaped shovels or blades of sub-surface tillage implement of the kind used exclusively by the Fischers (See OK-10, 721-23). II HP 2X. OK-10, 724.

Photograph of Norman Fischer (left) shows Technician John Bailey the effectiveness of properly-managed residue in controlling wind erosion and conserving moisture. This wheat is in good condition though at the time the picture was taken, rain was needed for further growth. In June 1952, Fischer harvested 22 bushels of wheat per acre despite the drought. He left the stubble 8 to 12 inches tall. In the first week in July, he worked the field with a sub-surface plow with blades or shovels as set from 3.5 to 4 inches deep, leaving residue in the surface. He repeated the operation in mid-August to cut weeds and volunteer wheat. Drilled wheat in a deep furrow on September 20, 1952. OK-10, 725.

Photograph of Fischer’s Wheat Bowl Farm, Hooker, Oklahoma. Side view of sub-surface tillage equipment being used on this farm comprising 16 scattered quarter sections (See OK-10, 721). II HP 2X. OK-10, 722.

Photograph of Norman Fischer, one of Louis Fischer’s three sons who operate a farm with him, shows how a sub-surface tillage implement operates, cutting weed roots, loosening soil and mixing residue into the surface. This type of equipment is coming into greater use as a means of controlling wind erosion in western Oklahoma blowing areas. This tillage also helps control water erosion which Norman says sometimes does more damage more quickly than wind erosion. OK-10, 721.

Photograph showing the V-shaped shovels of blades of a subsurface tillage instrument up out of the soil (see OK-10-721 and 10-722). II HP 2-X. OK-10-723.

Photograph of the City Service Company compressor plant in Straight, Oklahoma. Built in the midst of a wheat-growing area in the Oklahoma Panhandle in 1944. The first year the compnay had a great deal of trouble from blowing dust. The Soil Conservation District helped them get a start of buffalo and other grasses to treat the problem. Now the entire 160 acres surrounding the plant is tied down with grass. OK-10, 338.

Photograph of a Dust Storm in Guymon, OK, at 2 PM. Photo by USDA Soil Conservation Service, April 6, 1935.

Photographs of Tyrone, OK, April 18, 1908.

Photograph of a truck at the Okmulgee Oil Refinery in April 1972.

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Connie Worley, center, Oklahoma City University student fromGuymon, entertained luncheon guests with a spanish dance."

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "An 80-year-old Texhoma woman who moved to the Oklahoma Panhandle before statehood will reign as Pioneer Queen of Guymon's 37th annual Pioneer Days activities May 3-4."

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Modern Gothic Ribs of the 350 capacity sancutary of the First Christian Church, Texhoma, form a eerie pattern against the Oklahoma Panandle sky."

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