Photograph of crop rotation, terracing and contour cultivation. The terrace was built in 1940. Two rows of sorghum, one row of peas, and cotton on the left. Cotton will average ¾ of bale per acre and the cooperator says he would not have made more than ½ bale per acre without the terraces. Mr. C. H. Lewis is picking peas between corn rows. OK-8261.

Photograph of a 40 foot deep gully on A. Grossman's land.

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper.

Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper.

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Killed in prison break - 8-10-41"

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Prisoners wrote eulogy to Warden Jess Dunn, slain by convicts in doomed attempt at escape."

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

Photograph taken for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper.

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Fred Hunt, McAlester, prison warden"

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Walter Haggard, Pittsburg county sheriff, displays the razor which convicts held at the throat of Warden Jess Dunn as they passed through a penitentiary gate Sunday in a frustrated effort to escape."

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "A murder charge was filed t McAlester Friday against Hurley Lee Holmes, 17-year-old farm youth, for the shotgun slaying Thursday of his father, George Washington Holmes, 58 years old, at their home three miles southwest of Quinton."

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper.

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper.

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "John Leonard "Pepper" Martin, the immortal "Wild Horse of the Osage" of the old St. Louis cardinals gas house gang, is keeping busy working on his 960-acre ranch a mile south of Featherston-west of Quinton."

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper.

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

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

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "This is the exterior view of the east gate at the Oklahoma State Penitentiary at McAlester through which convicts marched Warden Jess Dunn Sunday in an effort to escape which ended in the death of the warden, two convicts and Tab Ford, former prison guard."

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "A closeup of the impassable bridge, scene of the bloody gunfights that ended the break from the prison. The single X marks the spot where a convict bullet put an end to the life of tab Ford, former deputy sheriff of Pittsburg and former prison guard and volunteer posseman. The double X's mark the spot where two convicts lying in ditch were killed by William E. Alexander, Pittsburg county deputy sheriff."

Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Prison break 1941"

Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Penal Institutions, State Penitentiary, McAlester, Buildings, Exterior"

Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Penal Institutions, State Penitentiary, McAlester, Buildings, Exterior"

Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Penal Institutions, State Penitentiary, McAlester, Buildings, Exterior"

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