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[Photograph 2012.201.B0223.0018]

Photograph taken for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "CHEYENNE'S new 35 bed convalescent hospital will have its formal opening Sunday. This one-story hospital is the most modern of its type in western Oklahoma, being completely fire-proof and providing central heating and cooling facilities. The hospital is jointly owned by Dr. Frank K. Buster, Glenn Crane, and Joe F. Mead of Cheyenne."
Date: May 28, 1958
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B0246.0202]

Photograph taken for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Glen F. Crane, business manager of the Cheyenne Convalescent hospital, adjusts one of the institution's modern laundry machines as Mrs. Rose Downey, kitchen helper, looks on."
Date: November 6, 1958
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B1342.0205]

Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "C.E. Vincent, Cheyenne, Implement dealer."
Date: August 2, 1958
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B0381.0146]

Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper.
Date: August 2, 1958
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Grass Growth on Steep Hill

Photograph of very good growth of grasses on steep rocky-red shale hill site under light use. Jim Taylor in picture.
Date: 1958-09-XX
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Grass Growth on Steep Hill

Photograph of native grasses grow in an excellent manner on very steep rocky soils under light use. Jim Taylor, in photo, examining seed head of Sand Bluestem.
Date: 1958-09-XX
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Seed Harvest

Photograph of Little Bluestem grass seed set cut in sun to dry before cleaning. Seed is being processed by Upper Washita SCD to be used in reseeding land in Roger Mills County.
Date: November 1958
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Land Clearance, Cultivation & Brush and Weed Control

Photograph of deep plowing for shinnery oak control. The right half of this picture shows the infestation of shinnery oak. The left half shows the result after being plowed 20 inches deep. Shinnery oak is completely turned under. The field is to be seeded to sudan grass in 1958 and rye in the fall for winter cover. Sorghum, cover will be established in 1959 for grass seeding. OK-658-7.
Date: April 1, 1958
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Land Clearance, Cultivation & Brush and Weed Control

Photograph of deep plowing for shinnery oak shrub control. This field is badly infested with shinnery oak, being 5 to 20 feet tall when it was deep plowed. The field was drug with cross ties; [unclear] and seeded to rye in the fall of 1957. 22 acres were deep plowed. Eighty five head of cattle were counted as grazing in the filed in March, 1958. OK-658-6.
Date: March 31, 1958
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Land Clearance, Cultivation & Brush and Weed Control

Photograph of deep plowing for shinnery oak control. The field was plowed 20 inches or deeper in August, 1957. It was seeded to rye in the fall without any seedbed preparation. Sudan or sorghum cover will be established in 1958. Climax native grasses will be seeded in 1959. OK-658-3.
Date: March 31, 1958
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Land Clearance, Cultivation & Brush and Weed Control

Photograph of shinnery oak infested pasture. This pasture will be deep plowed in the spring of 1958. Established to native grasses. Shinnery oak has completely choked out native grasses. OK-658-10.
Date: April 1, 1958
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Water Conservation; Water Erosion; Flooding and Prevention

Photograph of erosion caused by heavy rains in June. The field will be terraced and contoured farmed as soon as the waterway is established to safely carry water. OK-712-10.
Date: July 26, 1958
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Three UNIDENTIFIED Workers Using A Hydro Seeder on Backslope of Detention Site, No. 4, Sgt. Major Creek, to Mixture of Native Grasses

Photograph of three UNIDENTIFED workers using a hydro seeder to seed backslope of Detention site, No. 4, Sgt. Major Creek, to mixture of native grasses. Bermuda sprigging crew is seen on the bottom left and a fencing crew is located in the center right of photo. The back of the photograph proclaims, "Hydro seeder seeding back slope [sic] of Detention site, No. 4, Sgt. Major Creek, to mixture of native grasses. Men in lower left corner is Bermuda springing crew. Fencing crew is busy also."
Date: July 14, 1958
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Deep Plowed Field For Shinnery Control

Photograph of a field deep plowed to control an infestation of shinnery oak. The back of the photograph proclaims, "Deep plowing for shinnery control. Field badly infested with shinnery oak. Shinnery was 25' high when deep plowed in 1956. Sorghum cover will be established and field seedbed to climax native grasses."
Date: March 31, 1958
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Great Plains Conservation Program

Photograph of the Great Plains Conservation Program [ 1957 - 1996]. Stubble mulching under the Great Plains Program Contract. The filed averaged 40 bushels of wheat per acre in 1958. OK-712-6.
Date: July 15, 1958
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Land Clearance, Cultivation & Brush and Weed Control

Photograph of Ralph Foster, reporter for Capper’s Farmer Magazine, Topeka, Kansas, is inspecting Caddo switchgrass hay being baled by Jack Rhoton. This 14 acre field was seeded May 17, 1957 and irrigated once. It produced 307 pounds of seed per acre in 1957. This hay crop yielded 2800 pounds per acre or 560 bales of good quality hay. A seed crop will follow. OK-708-3.
Date: July 4, 1958
Creator: Whittington, Fred
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Great Plains Conservation Program

Photograph of Robert Sprowls and his wife and children signing the Great Plains Contract on his ranch. Soil Conservation Service [SCS] tchnician Willis J. Sorrells is in the picture. OK-712-1.
Date: July 10, 1958
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Native Grass Seed

Photograph of the upper Washita SCD 1958 grass seed harvest. Bluestem seed laid out on bleachers to dry before cleaning.
Date: November 1958
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Grass Growth on Steep Hill

Photograph of very good growth of grasses on steep rocky-red shale hill site under light use. Jim Taylor in picture.
Date: 1958-09-XX
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Grass Growth on Steep Hill

Photograph of native grasses grow in an excellent manner on very steep rocky soils under light use. Jim Taylor, in photo, examining seed head of Sand Bluestem.
Date: 1958-09-XX
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Deep Plowed Field For Shinnery Control

Photograph of a portion of a herd of cattle grazing in a field deep plowed to control an infestation of shinnery oak. A house and a barn are visible on the far right of photograph. The back of the photograph proclaims, “Deep plowing for shinnery control. Field badly infested with shinnery oak. Shinnery was 5 to 20’ tall when deep plowed. Field was drug with cross ties; pnewayed [sic] and seeded to rye fall 1957. Deep plowed in April, 1957. 22 acres deep plowed. Eighty-five head of cattle was counted grazing field in March 1958."
Date: March 31, 1958
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
The Hammon Advocate (Hammon, Okla.), Vol. 49, No. 34, Ed. 1 Thursday, September 18, 1958 (open access)

The Hammon Advocate (Hammon, Okla.), Vol. 49, No. 34, Ed. 1 Thursday, September 18, 1958

Weekly newspaper from Hammon, Oklahoma that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: September 18, 1958
Creator: Richardson, Eva M.
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
The Hammon Advocate (Hammon, Okla.), Vol. 49, No. 35, Ed. 1 Thursday, September 25, 1958 (open access)

The Hammon Advocate (Hammon, Okla.), Vol. 49, No. 35, Ed. 1 Thursday, September 25, 1958

Weekly newspaper from Hammon, Oklahoma that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: September 25, 1958
Creator: Richardson, Eva M.
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
The Hammon Advocate (Hammon, Okla.), Vol. 49, No. 36, Ed. 1 Thursday, October 2, 1958 (open access)

The Hammon Advocate (Hammon, Okla.), Vol. 49, No. 36, Ed. 1 Thursday, October 2, 1958

Weekly newspaper from Hammon, Oklahoma that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: October 2, 1958
Creator: Richardson, Eva M.
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History