Resource Type

[Photograph 2012.201.B0253.0116]

Photograph taken for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "One of Oklahoma State's starting guards this season should be 208-pound Rod Cutsinger, senior letterman from Elk City."
Date: August 28, 1963
Creator: Albright, Bob
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B0340.0026]

Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "C. C. Killian, Sayre, Beckham County Commissioner"
Date: August 5, 1955
Creator: unknown
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B0253.0086]

Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "HABITUAL RITE for Chief U. S. District Judge Stephen S. Chandler (right) is swearing in Rex Hawks as U. S. Marshal."
Date: August 20, 1965
Creator: Argo, Jim
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B0253.0147]

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Time-savers' is how Elk City farmer Larry nix describes his round bales of hay which are six feet in diameter."
Date: August 3, 1976
Creator: unknown
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B0122.0394]

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "These votive candles are made at the Wilhelm Honey Farm and Max Candle Co. in Erick, Ok."
Date: August 19, 1983
Creator: Argo, Jim
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B0253.0118]

Photograph taken for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper.
Date: August 27, 1964
Creator: Traverse, Austin
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B0243.0336]

Photograph taken for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Of the Western Oklahoma Pioneer Reunion in Sayre was Mrs. C. M. Coursey, of Erick , who will observe her 103rd birthday on September 2."
Date: August 19, 1963
Creator: unknown
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B0307.0024]

Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company.
Date: August 21, 1937
Creator: unknown
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B0125.0050]

Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "H. F. Carmichael, Representative Beckham County - Sayre."
Date: August 19, 1940
Creator: unknown
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B1380.0605]

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "The honey is then bottled from one of the 80-gallon storage tanks at The Honey Farm."
Date: August 13, 1990
Creator: Argo, Jim
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B1380.0603]

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Dan witt checks sone beehives at The Honey Farm."
Date: August 13, 1990
Creator: Argo, Jim
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B1380.0601]

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "After the frames aer scraped, Witt and her mother-in-law, Jean Witt, load them into an extractor, where the honey is extracted by centrifugal force."
Date: August 13, 1990
Creator: Argo, Jim
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B1380.0604]

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper.
Date: August 13, 1990
Creator: Argo, Jim
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B1380.0602]

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Karen Witt scrapes honey from a frame."
Date: August 13, 1990
Creator: Argo, Jim
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B0372.0464]

Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "And Bob Lindsey, banker, tells how the total of farm loans has shrunk from about 40 percent in his bank, to about 20 percent "not because our farm loans are less, but because other kinds of loans have increased."
Date: August 5, 1958
Creator: unknown
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B0360.0796]

Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company.
Date: August 6, 1955
Creator: Miller, Joe
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B1046.0256]

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "George Peeler, Elk City, chamber of commerce"
Date: August 1, 1953
Creator: unknown
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B1275.0108]

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Carlton Taylor, Elk City."
Date: August 26, 1981
Creator: Argo, Jim
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Stubble Mulch Tillage

Photograph of a close up of stubble mulch tillage of wheat stubble after harvest. Approximately 2000 pounds per acre of wheat stubble left on the soil surface to protect the land from wind and water erosion. Decomposed stubble also adds organic matter to the soil. This practice is recommended by SCS.
Date: August 9, 1956
Creator: McConnell, John
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Terrace Construction

Photograph of Wayburn Gibson, contractor, constructing terraces with caterpillar and bulldozer. Terrace will reduce erosion by reducing runoff. Terrace system was designed by the Soil Conservation Service. Land will be planted to wheat in the fall of 1956.
Date: August 9, 1956
Creator: McConnell, John
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Range Improvement by Deferred Grazing

Photograph of the effects of deferred grazing of side oats grama on the Simmons ranch. This grass has not been grazed during 1958 to allow the grass to seed and let the stand become thicker and in general improve the range.
Date: August 8, 1958
Creator: McConnell, John
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Wheat Stubble Mulch Tillage

Photograph of stubble mulch tillage of wheat stubble after harvest. Approximately 2000 pounds per acre of wheat stubble left on the soil surface to protect the land from wind and water erosion. Decomposed stubble also adds organic matter to the soil. This practice is recommended by the SCS.
Date: August 9, 1956
Creator: McConnell, John
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Stubble Mulch Tillage

Photograph of stubble mulch tillage of wheat stubble after harvest. Approximately 2000 pounds per acre of wheat stubble left on the soil surface to protect the land from wind and water erosion. Decomposed stubble also adds organic matter to the soil. This practice is recommended by the SCS.
Date: August 9, 1956
Creator: McConnell, John
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B1361.0483]

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "When Apollo 11 astronaut Neil Armstrong planted his "one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind" on the moon's Sea of Tranquility, he did so on a spot painstakingly selected by a former Oklahoma woman."
Date: August 7, 1969
Creator: unknown
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History