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Swarming Bees

Photograph of Sweetclover in a cropping system to improve organic matter and soil stucture. Uses honey bees to polonize the clover for seed production. Bees are Swarming. One swarm has just settled on fence post, leaders come to direct their swarm to their new home.
Date: July 5, 1957
Creator: Chance, R. J.
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Sweet Clover In Rotation

Photograph of a second year sweet clover crop in rotation with wheat. Oats and sweet clover then 4 years wheat.
Date: July 12, 1956
Creator: Baggett, Beryl
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Terrace Construction

the second operation of constructing channel type terraces being built by bulldozer. Billy Kay, Contractor.
Date: July 10, 1959
Creator: Chance, R. J.
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

UNIDENTIFED Man Cultivating Grain Sorghum on the Contour With a Two Row Cultivator/Stillwater Project

Photograph of a UNIDENTIFED man cultivating grain sorghum on the contour with a two row cultivator. The back of the photograph proclaims, “Cultivating grain sorghum on the contour with a two row cultivator."
Date: July 19, 1937
Creator: Slack, Jim
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Upper Black Bear Spillway

Photograph of Site No. 71, Upper Black Bear. AC observing concrete workers preparing forms for the riser on the upper end of the principal spillway. Also shown to the left, a drainway to keep the natural drain open to prevent impoundment of water during construction.
Date: July 13, 1962
Creator: Chance, R. J.
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Water Conservation; Water Erosion; Flooding and Prevention

Photograph of a grassed waterway. This waterway was sodded to Bermuda grass in 1955 following heavy rains. Waterway runs north to south. OK-62-11.
Date: July 6, 1955
Creator: McConnell, John
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Water Conservation; Water Erosion; Flooding and Prevention

Photograph of Long Branch Creek Watershed Project, Site # 11. Mr. George Will, District Supervisor, observing Mr. and Mrs. E. C. Webb signing the first easement on the watershed. This easement started the proceedings to clear easements and right-of-ways for constructing Site # 11's detention dam. The main part of the dam is on Perry Carlile's farm. The three are seated on a culvert bridge showing flood water that covered their bottomland farm 15 times in 1957, located in the Black Bear bottom, 2 miles east of Morrison, OK. OK-515-8.
Date: July 18, 1957
Creator: Chance, R. J.
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Water Conservation; Water Erosion; Flooding and Prevention

Photograph of Messrs. J. E. and V. F. Ritter repairing the damage to fences on the Zimmermann farm after the flood of July 15, 1959. Note the larger boulders in the road; they are all that remain of large dumps of rock placed there for road improvement by the county commissioners. The bridge in the foreground was completely submerged during the storm. OK-902-10.
Date: July 16, 1959
Creator: Matthews, James
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Water Conservation; Water Erosion; Flooding and Prevention

Photograph of watershed project at Site # 11, Long Branch Creek. Mr. George Will, District Supervisor, on the left and R. J. Chance, Area Conservationist, discussing upstream flood prevention and easements with Mr. and Mrs. E. C. Webb, who own land that will be involved with detention water as a result of construction site 11. OK-515-9.
Date: July 18, 1957
Creator: Dilley, Ivan
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Wells Fargo Wagon

Photograph of Wells Fargo Wagon, Perry, Oklahoma Territory.
Date: July 1894
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History