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

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

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

Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "MUSKOGEE, Okla., April 6 - Newel A. Ellis, 52-year-old job printer, who seeks a seat in congress to represent the second Oklahoma District."

Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Football, Oklahoma Aggies"

Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "File Photo"

Photograph taken for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "File Photo"

Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Muskogee - Airview"

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "P.B. Bostic, Muskogee, Deceased 02-05-1942"

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Chimney Mountain, south of Muskogee, near the Honey Springs battlefield. It was near this elevation that the battle began on the prairie northeast of Oktaha, and served as an observation post for the Confederates."

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Aviator Wiley Post at Hatbox Field in Muskogee, Okla. (Original date unknown, photo originally published in 1936, again in 1981)"

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

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "F. N. Shoemake H. M. Legislator Muskogee County"

Photograph of SCS personnel explaining contour farming and crop rotation to African-American farmers. OK-5502.

Photograph of Mr. Ramsey, owner, conferring with Mr. Badwick, tenant, on contour-planted cotton field. Sudan strip visible in the background. [OK ID no. illegible].

Photograph of strip cropping with Lespedeza, soy beans and corn. Unterraced field. This view is to be compared with OKLA 5310, which shows a nearby field which has the same soil and is about the same slope, but which is planted in straight rows up and down the slopes and the cotton is very poor, as, in this season of very slight rainfall, what did fall was kept on the contour-farmed field, but was lost on the other. OK-5311.

Photograph of the Culton boys at well in which the water level has risen 6 to 8 feet in the last two years since terraces were built and contour farming has been practiced. OK-5296.

Photograph of the Warner-Borum-Warner Farm. The large farm pond here is almost the only available water supply for a large herd of cattle during severe dry spells. Mr. Borum and his son are on the horses. OK-5294.

Photograph of W. E. Rowsey farm, Muskogee, Oklhaoma. Clyde Easton, Soil Conservation Service [SCS] project manager discussing a soil conservation program with W. E. Rowsey, owner of 100 farms in eastern Oklahoma. OK-5300.

Photograph of a farm pond with an earth-filled dam. Loose rock rip-rap and spillway. This is quite typical of farm pond construction in this area. The water is low due to the severe hot and dry summer. Some farm ponds supply the only stock water available on many farms. OK-5332.

Photograph of Mr. Rowsey, owner, conferring with Mr. Sedwick, tenant, on contour planted cotton field. Sudan strip visible in background.

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper.

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Sergt. John L. Hay - commander of Hat Box Field"

Photograph of part of 230 acres taken out of cultivation, contour ridged and set to Bermuda grass, Muskogee Project. Photo by Richard W. Hufnagle, June 15, 1936.