Photograph of an aerial shot of non-cooperative agreement farm undertaking contour farming. A road with several houses is located in the middle of the photograph. The back of the photograph proclaims, "Do not have cooperative agreement on this farm, although they are contour farming."

Photograph of a "Strip mining operation."

Photograph of a furrowed and contoured field of coastal Bermuda planted May 6, 1958. The back of the photograph proclaims, "Coastal Bermuda. Newly set. To be followed when each step in establishment is made. Note furrows made by furrow attachment. Also on contour. Planting made May 6, 1958."

Photograph of an UNIDENTIFIED man on a tractor beginning the process of planting coastal Bermuda. The back of the photograph proclaims, "Costal Bermuda. Planting Coastal Bermuda – and wife team. Just ready to start. Locally made Planter. First in series depicting steps in establishment Coastal Bermudagrass. Suggested Pictures: 2. Field view after setting. 3. Harrowing for weed control. 4. Harrowing to pull runners back into furrows. 5. Second harrowing to pull runners back into furrows. 6 Leveling. 7. Seeding legumes. 8. Pasture with cattle. All pictures to be made in 1958."

Photograph of a helicopter with a UNIDENTIFED pilot taking off to spray brush. The back of the photograph proclaims, "Side view of Helicopter as pilot is taking off to spray brush."

Photograph of newly set costal Bermuda planted on contoured furrows. The back of the photograph proclaims, “Coastal Bermuda. Newly set. To be followed when each step in establishment is made. Note furrows mad by furrow attachment. Also on contour. Planting made May 6, 1958."

Photograph of farm pond construction across natural drain with sloping land along drain seeded to grass. Wide spaced terraces sewn to absorb short point rows. Uniform strip between widest terraces. T. A. Shirley, owner-operator.

Photograph of absolute true contour farming. Terraces below where land becomes steeper and is more severely eroded. Willie Mizell, tenant Same Rose, operator.

Photograph of the side view of a helicopter as pilot is taking off to spray brush. OK-863-4.

Photograph of a helicopter preparing to spray timber. OK-857-8.

Photograph of Blaine Bottom from Sansbois Creek Bridge 3.5 miles east and 4.5 miles north of Keota, Oklahoma. Flood waters 3 to 6 feet over the high land in the Arkanasas River Valley. Note: Only the tops of the buildings above the water in the background. The flood water was 3.7 feet above any previous record for the past 100 years. OK-4/2405.

Photograph of a gully before flling. Caused by defective outlet plus diverting water from natural draw.

Photograph of a helicopter preparing to spray timber.

Photograph of newly set Coastal Bermuda. To be followed when each step in establishment is made. Note furrows made by furrow attachment. Also on contour. Planting made May 6, 1958.

Photograph of helicopter as pilot is taking off to spray brush.

Photograph of a man and wife team planting Coastal Bermuda. Just ready to start. Locally made planter. First in series depicting steps in establishing Coastal Bermudagrass. Suggested pictures: 2. Field view after setting. 3. Harrowing for weed control. 4. Harrowing to pull runners back into furrows. 5. Second harrowing to pull runners back into furrows. 6. Leveling. 7. Seeding legumes. 8. Pasture with cattle. All pictures to be made in 1958.

Photograph of W.R. Stephens and SCS Technician W.J. Fowler discussing planting NK 27 Bermuda Grass seed with culti-packer seeder. Seeding is following land clearing . Seeding rate is 1.5 to 2 pounds of seed per acre. Fertilizer rate is 200 pounds of 10-20-10 per acre.

Photograph of Cecil Presfield driving amphibious car returning Mrs. Jim Presfield home from work along with the Presfield children and neighbos Dan Condo's children home from school. During floods Sans Bois Creek overflows into the Grassy Lake area cutting off all access roads. They must use boat, amphicar, or horses to cross the 10 to 12 feet of water over the roads. Presfield has 500 acres, most in Sans Bois bottom. He lost 2 calves in this flood. In the last previous flood he lost 8 head from pneumonia after swimming out to high ground.

Photograph of floodwater from Sans Bois Creek. On Highway OK-31 looking south.

Photograph of Flood waters on Sans Bois Creek looking west on State Highway #9. Highway Department dragline was pulled out of borrow area up on highway shoulder to escape flood damage.

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Port Carl Albert on the Arkansas River Navigation System at Keota was dedicated Saturday by House Speaker Carl Albert, Gov. David Hall and Congressman Ed Edmondson, D-Okla. and Wilbur Mills, D-Ark., left to right."

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "A straight-A student from Stigler High School will be awarded a $2,000 college scholarship Monday night from the Sales and Marketing Executives Club of OKC. Dale Perrymore, who will attend Oklahoma State Univ. next fall, has been named the winner of the award."

Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Band director Logan Gantz and his Stigler High School band perform at the dedication ceremony at Port Carl Albert, near Keota, along the Arkansas River Navigation System, May 1972."

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "James Perryman is hardly a job-hopper; he spent 37 years at Kinta High School"