Insurance map sheet showing an area of Checotah in Creek Nation, Indian Territory, including geographic features, buildings, and details related to risk assessment for fire insurance.

Insurance map sheet showing an area of Checotah in Creek Nation, Indian Territory, including geographic features, buildings, and details related to risk assessment for fire insurance.

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper.

Photograph of Rt. Abbie Busha and Katie Fisher standing in a two-mile long drainage ditch, constructed via grader, for the disposal of excess surface water for over twenty-one farms in the area. This benefits 1790 acres, while the excess surface water drains into the North Canadian River. People shown in photo go as followed from left to right: 1. Rt. Abbie Busha, 2. Katie Fisher. The back of the photograph proclaims, "2 Mile long, grader constructed, drainage ditch for disposal of excess surface water. Ditch empties into natural drain hence into North Canadian River. This is part of the new drainage system in Fame Drainage Project that benefits 1790 acres (90% in cultivation) on 21 farms. Combined length of ditches 2,175 linear yards."

Photograph of contour listed rows on a field to be terraced.

Photograph of Improved Drainage Ditch in Fame Bottom Farms Drainage project (see OK-8709 for view of unimproved ditch immediately above and adjoining these two farms). About 20% of the land in Fame Bottom very frequently produces crop failures due to excess water on the fields. Average crop yields on fields not damaged by [unclear] of cotton per acre; 35 pounds corn per acre. Properly drained, the land in this bottom will produce 4 tons of alfalfa would fail. The drainage project benefits 1790 acres, 90% cultivated on 21 farms. Combined length of ditches: 2175 linear yards. OK-8710.

Photograph of Mrs. B.B. Hornsby (center) pouring coffee for her husband (left) and son, Jack (right), after the men have spent a hard day in the fields. Jack, age 18, looks over the bonds purchased by his father during the 4th War Loan Drive. The Hornsby family has purchased a total of $3,370 in bonds. Mr. Hornsby says, it all come off the farm where he has established a complete soil and moisture conservation program, "Without what I have done in trying to save my poor, old land, I couldn't have done it, boys. I couldn't have done it farming the old way." OK-8706.

Photograph of the fertilizing of a contour-cultivated field with the application of barnyard manure. OK-8705.

Photograph of use of two bottom plows to plow out channel of new terraces that were constructed with a small road maintainer. Mr. O.N. Newton (on the tractor) owned a farm 1 mile south, 1 mile west which he terraced in 1938 under CCC supervision. Before renting this 160 acre farm (with 60 acres cultivated), this year he told the owner he would rather not farm it unless it was terraced. Newton agreed to rent equipment and build 5,300 feet of terraces and in return, Mr M. Cook, the owner, agreed to give Newton the AAA conservation payments, "We'll both make more money with less work this way," Newton told Cook, "Your farm will be worth more after it is terraced and there'll be no washes develop in the cultivated fields." Oats and Korean lespedeza will be planted in this field. Okla-8698.

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Ben McIntosh, a Creek-pawnee living at Eufaula, shows medals he recieved during World War II"

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: "Betty Working, a Checotah High School art teacher, applauds Stillwater banker Tom Bennett's call for increased state investment in education."

Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story.

Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story.

Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story about Oklahoma authorities going on a manhunt for two men in connection to the double murders of a state trooper and park superintendent.

Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story.

Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story about an Oklahoma trooper and park superintendent who were murder and police are looking for Texas suspects.

Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story about an Oklahoma State Trooper and park superintendent were shot to death by two men that they were arresting for having guns in the Fountainhead State Park.

Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story about two cousins being arrested in the connection with the murders of an Oklahoma Highway patrolman and a state park superintendent near Fountainhead Lodge.

Photocopy of a script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story about murder charges being filed against two men for the murders of two Oklahoma peace officers.

Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story about an Oklahoma state trooper and park superintendent being killed and the police are investigating the murders.

Photograph of the Deers Chapel School, McIntosh County, OK, February 22, 1956.

Photograph of an unidentified man engaged in contour and terrace plowing. OK-8698.