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Water Conservation; Water Erosion; Flooding and Prevention

Photograph of detention reservoir. Site # 10. Floodwater Retarding Reservoir. Little Wewoka Creek Project (WP-2-2)3.
Date: September 13, 1957
Creator: Price, Neal E
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Water Conservation; Water Erosion; Flooding and Prevention

Photograph of Detention Reservoir, Site No. 10. Floodwater Retarding Reservoir. Little Wewoka Creek Project (WP-2-2)3. OK-554-5.
Date: September 13, 1957
Creator: Price, Neil E.
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Irrigation Water Line

Photograph of an UNIDENTIFED man standing next to a water line from a 75 foot deep drilled well which irrigates the field seen in the picture. The back of the photograph proclaims, "Irrigation. Water line from drilled well (75 foot deep) through 4" casing. Showing part of field irrigated by the water (225-250 gallons per minute) from the 75 foot well. See pictures 10 and 11."
Date: February 13, 1957
Creator: Davis, T. J.
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Trees, Tree Farms, Woodlands, and Forests

Photograph of pecan trees. These pecan tress were fertilized in 1956 using about 40 pounds of 10-20-10 fertilzer per tree. Fertilizer worked into the ground under trees. This year the crop promises to be very good. OK-559-6.
Date: September 24, 1957
Creator: Davis, T. J.
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Farming Equipment and Methods

Photograph of the farm of Wayne Chowins, near Wetumka, Oklahoma, showing field cultivation in action, showing how it leaves the straw on top of the soil.
Date: August 1957
Creator: unknown
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Land Clearance, Cultivation & Brush and Weed Control

Photograph of the clearing of timber from Site no. 10. Floodwater retarding the reservoir. OK-534-12.
Date: August 12, 1957
Creator: Price, Neil
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Grain Sorghum

Photograph of grain sorghum following a heavy growth of vetch and rye turned under last spring. Class II land: Taloka Soil Association.
Date: September 19, 1957
Creator: Long, R. M.
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Farm Pond

Photograph of a small boy holding a stinger of fish taken from a farm pond stocked with Bass and Crappie. Pond fertilized with barnyard manure and baled alfalfa.
Date: September 19, 1957
Creator: Price, Neil E.
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Field Cultivator Close Up

Photograph of a close up of the work the field cultivator does.
Date: August 6, 1957
Creator: unknown
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B1146.0143]

Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Officers of the club, composed of wives of the members of the state legislature, are Mrs. Hugh Sandlin."
Date: February 20, 1957
Creator: Miller, Joe
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B1146.0140]

Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company.
Date: January 9, 1957
Creator: Peterson, Dick
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B1265.0683]

Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "car buried in rubble of London's Television shop adjacent to Holdenville bank."
Date: April 26, 1957
Creator: unknown
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B1265.0685]

Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Toys were among debris in an aparment house on Oak street."
Date: April 26, 1957
Creator: unknown
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B1265.0687]

Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company.
Date: May 9, 1957
Creator: unknown
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B1265.0684]

Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Note twisted TV antennas, other damage on Oak."
Date: April 26, 1957
Creator: unknown
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B1160.0579]

Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Mrs. Tony Lyons, Choctaw Princess Star of Evening, has combined her efforts with the officials greeters taking part in Holdenville's "Operation Hospitality," in observance of the state's Semi-Centennial. Refreshments and informational literature are handed out by the local Chamber of Commerce to any out-of-state visitors, and greeters pictured include, from left, C. A. Adams; Cecil Sanders; Lyons; Clem Pollock, chamber manager; Wallace Haskett; and Charlie Baldwin."
Date: June 18, 1957
Creator: unknown
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B1265.0681]

Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Sheet iron on a post."
Date: April 26, 1957
Creator: unknown
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B1265.0686]

Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Holdenville merchants suffered severe damae from Thursday nights tornado."
Date: April 25, 1957
Creator: unknown
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B1265.0682]

Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Brief but violent was the tornado that struck Holdenville Thursday night. It ripped through several blocks of the downtown business section and the front this building at corner of Main and Broadway was a total wreck."
Date: April 25, 1957
Creator: Gumm, John
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B0293B.0365]

Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "One of the finest, air-condition factories in the nation, was built for Seamprufe, Inc., of which this is just a part."
Date: April 23, 1957
Creator: unknown
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B0051.0532]

Photograph taken for a story in the Oklahoma City Times newspaper. Caption: "Killed in this plane crackup near Holdenville was C. A. Dahse, 26, Big Spring, Texas, businessman, who was the object of wide-spread search for two days."
Date: June 21, 1957
Creator: unknown
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B0051.0533]

Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Deputies Bob Chaddick and Gene Abney. Hughes County Sheriff T. J. Sanders on right. Probing to retrieve pilot's billfold or other identification."
Date: June 27, 1957
Creator: unknown
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History