Resource Type

Kansas City Southern (KCS) 528

A photograph print showing the Kansas City Southern (KCS) 528, 2-8-0 (BLW class E-3), Disney, OK. (Note: became Massman Construction #1)
Date: May 10, 1939
Creator: unknown
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Rip-Rapped Farm Pond in a Contour Ridged Pasture/Pryor Project

Photograph of a "Rip-rapped farm pond in a contour ridged pasture from an altitude of 400 feet."
Date: May 19, 1937
Creator: Slack
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

UNIDENTIFIED Farmer Mowing Weeds Between Contour Ridges For Pasture Improvement/Pryor Project

Photograph of an UNIDENTIFED farmer with horse drawn equipment mowing weeds between contour ridges for pasture improvement. The back of the photograph proclaims, "Farmer mowing weeds between contour ridges from pasture improvement. By controlling weeds, Bermuda grass will afford more pasture to the livestock."
Date: May 20, 1937
Creator: Slack, Jim
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

UNIDENTIFIED Farmer Plowing Hairy Vetch As a Green Manure Crop/Pryor Project

Photograph of an UNIDENTIFED farmer plowing under hairy vetch for green manure. The back of the photograph proclaims, "Farmer plowing under hairy vetch which is being used for green manure in preparation for another later crop. He is using a Farm-all tractor and two bottom plow."
Date: May 20, 1937
Creator: Slack, Jim
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Oscar Adams With Two of His Horses on His Excellent Improved Pasture of Various Grasses and Legumes

Photograph of Oscar Adams with two of his horses on his excellent improved pasture of various grasses and legumes. The back of the photograph proclaims, "Adams holds 2 of his horses on his excellent improved pasture of yellow hop and white Dutch clover, Bermuda grass, timothy, alsike clover, horean [sic] lespedeza and several other grasses and legumes."
Date: May 26, 1947
Creator: Reid, Louis
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Cultivated Land Retired TP Pasture

Photograph of cultivated land retired to pasture, contour ridged and set to Bermuda grass above diversion ditches.
Date: May 19, 1937
Creator: Slack, Jim
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

A Newly Terraced Field

Photograph of a newly terraced field from an altitude of about 700 feet. A natural drain with native vegetation is also shown with the terraces emptying into them.
Date: May 19, 1937
Creator: Slack, Jim
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Strip Cropping in a Terraced Field

Photograph of strip cropping in a terraced field with sweet clover and lespedeza taking up point rows of cowpeas and on the terraces.
Date: May 19, 1937
Creator: Slack, Jim
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Grass, Legume and Forb Cultivation

Photograph of rye and vetch, Montgomery Brothers farm / ranch. The rye and vetch are in rotation for diary pasture and silage. The pasture was grazed until March 15, 1956. The Montgomery brothers were the conservation farmers of the year in the Goodyear contest in the Mayes County Soil Conservation District {SCD]. They operate 450 acres, cultivating 145 acres using rye and vetch on about one-half each year, 65 acres of Bermuda base tame pasture, 65 acres of tall fescue and winter clovers, with the balance in climax grasses used for pasture and meadow. OK-283-11.
Date: May 17, 1956
Creator: McConnell, John
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Conservation, Environmental & Safety Education

Photograph of Lincoln Elementary third grade students on a bus on a conservation tour. OK-4285-5.
Date: May 2, 1971
Creator: Donahoo, Don D.
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Farming Equipment and Methods

Photograph of a farmer plowing under hairy vetch being used for green manure in preparation for another later crop. He is using a Farm-all tractor and two bottom plows. OK-5640.
Date: May 20, 1937
Creator: Slack, Jim
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Grass, Legume and Forb Cultivation

Photograph of a close-up view of a Bermuda grass shelter which separates roots from the sod in a much more efficient manner than shaking it by hand. Vacant lot I Pryor, Oklahoma. OK-5634.
Date: May 21, 1937
Creator: Slack, Jim
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Cows Grazing in Hairy Vetch

Photograph of cows grazing in Hairy Vetch that has been used as winter cover crop, soil builder, and later to be turned over as green manure.
Date: May 20, 1937
Creator: unknown
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Cows Grazing in Hairy Vetch

Photograph of cows grazing in Hairy Vetch that has been used as winter cover crop, soil builder, and later to be turned over as green manure.
Date: May 20, 1937
Creator: unknown
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Bermuda Grass Shaker

Photograph of W.P.A. workers with a Bermuda grass shaker to separate roots from soil in a vacant lot, Pryor, OK.
Date: May 21, 1937
Creator: Slack, Jim
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Bermuda Grass Shaker

Photograph of W.P.A. workers with a Bermuda grass shaker to separate roots from soil in a vacant lot, Pryor, OK.
Date: May 21, 1937
Creator: Slack, Jim
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Upper Spavinaw Dam near Spavinaw, Oklahoma

Photograph of the Upper Spavinaw Dam near Spavinaw, Oklahoma.
Date: May 1957
Creator: Meyers Photo Shop
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B1357.0143]

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Pete Weaver Mayes Co. Former Co. Sheriff"
Date: May 15, 1984
Creator: unknown
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B1186.0347]

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper.
Date: May 16, 1984
Creator: Oklahoma
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B1034.0209]

Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Paper mill"
Date: May 6, 1957
Creator: unknown
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B1034.0196]

Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Paper mill"
Date: May 6, 1957
Creator: unknown
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B1034.0208]

Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company.
Date: May 6, 1957
Creator: unknown
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B1034.0198]

Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Paper mill"
Date: May 6, 1957
Creator: unknown
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B1034.0207]

Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Paper mill"
Date: May 6, 1957
Creator: unknown
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History