[Photograph 2012.201.B0235.0024]

Photograph taken for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper.
Date: December 10, 1950
Creator: unknown
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B0293.0062]

Photograph taken for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "CHEROKEE, Dec. 13 - The man with the biggest heart in Cherokee is a modest mail carrier whose off - duty hors for 20 years have been devoted solely to helping the less fortunate."
Date: January 10, 1953
Creator: unknown
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Water Conservation; Water Erosion; Flooding and Prevention

Photograph of a plastic protector for a waterway. State soil Conservationist Earl Rowley and Dan Hamill. Work Unit Conservationist [WUC], Weatherford, Oklahoma, demonstrates a plastic cover that can be spread over a Bermuda grass waterway where the slope increase would be a hazard. Water can flow over the plastic preventing erosion. The Bermuda grass receives sunlight through the plastic. Soil moisture loss under the covered area is reduced to a minimum. OK-692-7.
Date: July 10, 1958
Creator: Rowlett, Olen
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History