A photograph print showing the Missouri, Kansas & Texas (MKT) "Katy" 659, 2-8-0 (BLW), Muskogee, OK.

A photograph print showing the Missouri, Kansas & Texas (MKT) "Katy" 734, 2-8-2, Muskogee, OK.

A photograph print showing the Missouri, Kansas & Texas (MKT) "Katy" 866, 2-8-2, Muskogee, OK.

A photograph print showing the Missouri, Kansas & Texas (MKT) "Katy" 377, 4-6-2, on passenger train, Muskogee, OK.

A photograph print showing the Missouri, Kansas & Texas (MKT) "Katy" 388, 4-6-2, on a passenger train, Muskogee, OK.

A photograph print showing the Missouri, Kansas & Texas (MKT) "Katy" 315, 4-4-0, Muskogee, OK.

A photograph print showing the St. Louis and San Francisco (SLSF) "Frisco" (SLSF) 629, 4-6-0 (Alco), Muskogee, OK (Ex: KCFS&M 629)

A photograph print showing the St. Louis and San Francisco (SLSF) "Frisco" (SLSF) 735, 4-6-0, Muskogee, OK.

Column documenting biographical information about Oklahomans who have died, including Virginia Stafford Handcock, a member of the Daughters of the Confederacy and a charter member of the St. Paul's Methodist Church of Muskogee.

Article narrates the life and accomplishments of Captain James Lowes Dawson as told through correspondences made between his close associates, family members, and the federal government while he worked in Fort Gibson.

Article recounts the military career of General William Goldsmith Belknap as he commanded troops in Fort Gibson, Fort Washita and Fort Smith.

Group of individuals standing in front of brick wall, written on back of original, "Congregation of St. Phillip's Church, Muskogee, Easter, 1947, 6 a.m. Lay reader - Robert S. McKee, Grace Church, Muskogee, Acting Vicar - Paul Palmer".

Front page of "Oklahoma Episcopal Messenger", May 1945. Picture of "Grace Church, Muskogee" and gives history of consecration by Bishop Casady on March 25. Mortgage had been burned on March 24.

Photograph of a R. C. Lindsey kneeling in a field of Ladino clover and oats. The back of the photograph proclaims, “Ladino clover covers the ground as Lindsey kneels to examine it. The surrounding crop is oats.”

Photograph of workers fertilizing a field with manure before planting watermelon.

Photograph of a diversion terrace on Clapp Morgan Mort. Company land.

Photograph of severe gully erosion.

Photograph of furniture in front of the W. H. Stubbs home. During recent flood, water was approximately 3 feet deep in the house. Stubbs’ loss was listed as follows: crops destroyed: 20 acres of sweet corn, 80 acres of filed corn, 15 acres of green beans, 10 acres of spinach, 9 acres of sweet potatoes, 2 acres of cantaloupes and watermelons. Livestock lost: 29 hogs and pigs, 2 cows, and 2 horses. Also lost includes $350 worth of seed, 540 gallons of gasoline for the tractor, 50 gallons of motor oil, 1 planter, 1 cultivator, 1 section harrow. An irrigation system costing $600 to replace was also destroyed. Residence damage was $1200. The furniture damage was $1500. OK-8531.

Photograph of Harry N. Chambers, OK State Conservationist is shown with his foot on top of fence post nearly buried in sand and silt deposited during the record breaking floods along the Canadian River between May 10 and May 26, 1943. From lands shown in the background were once operated as a nursery by the Soil Conservation Service. OK-8538.

Photograph of H. H. Bannett, chief of Soil Conservation Service shows Elmer T. Peterson, Associate Editor of the Daily Oklahoma, the depth of sand and silt deposited on the highway during record breaking flood occuring from May 10 to 28, 1943, along the Arkansas River. Webbers falls, a town of 400 was evacuated twice during the flood. OK-8537.

Photograph of H. H. Bannett, chief of Soil Conservation Service looks at grass and other debris suspended on telephone wires during record-breaking floods during May, 2013, on the Arkansas River. Flood waters were 14 feet deep over the permanent at this location. OK-8535.

Photograph of H.H. Bennett, chief of the Soil Conservation Service, left, and Elmer T. Peterson, Associate Editor, Daily Oklahoman, look over flood damage at Webbers Falls, OK. J. P. Turner, owner of rock home, left background, stated that from 6 to 36 inches of silt and sand were deposited over 24 acres of alfalfa, spinach and cotton growing in a field adjoining his home. He stated that silt deposits broke 2 drainage ditches in the town. He stated Webbers Falls was evacuated twice in the spring of 1943 between May 10 and May 28 as a result of record-breaking floods along the Arkansas River. Large deposits of silt and sand were deposited in fields and along the highway in this vicinity. OK-8536.

Photograph of Harry N. Chambers, State Conservationist, Soil Conservation Service, stands on the edge of US Hwy 64, leading out of Webbers Falls and is reviewing damage done to the fences and silt and sand deposited on farm land during the recent floods that occurred between May 10 and 28, 1943. The town of Webbers falls was evacuated twice. The home in the background is on the edge of Webbers Falls. Note the drift collected on the fence. OK-8545.

Photograph of farm land cover with sand and silt deposited during record breaking floods along the Canadian River between May 10 and May 28, 1943. OK-8540.