Water Conservation; Water Erosion; Flooding and Prevention

Photograph of detention reservoir. Site # 10. Floodwater Retarding Reservoir. Little Wewoka Creek Project (WP-2-2)3.
Date: September 13, 1957
Creator: Price, Neal E
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Livestock (and Grasses)

Photograph of Leon Russell, Star Route, Calvin, OK, was selcted by the Hughes County Soil & Water Conservation District [SWCD] as a Conservation Farmer for the month of October, 1961. Mr. Russell has lived on this farm for 33 years. He is watching his cattle graze Sericea lespedeze. Mr. Russell has 30 acres of Sericea which is grazed regularly throughout the warm season. He also puts up about 1200 bales annully for his only source of hay. OK-1445-1.
Date: September 20, 1961
Creator: Davis, T. J.
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Water Conservation; Water Erosion; Flooding and Prevention

Photograph of Detention Reservoir, Site No. 10. Floodwater Retarding Reservoir. Little Wewoka Creek Project (WP-2-2)3. OK-554-5.
Date: September 13, 1957
Creator: Price, Neil E.
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Trees, Tree Farms, Woodlands, and Forests

Photograph of pecan trees. These pecan tress were fertilized in 1956 using about 40 pounds of 10-20-10 fertilzer per tree. Fertilizer worked into the ground under trees. This year the crop promises to be very good. OK-559-6.
Date: September 24, 1957
Creator: Davis, T. J.
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Grain Sorghum

Photograph of grain sorghum following a heavy growth of vetch and rye turned under last spring. Class II land: Taloka Soil Association.
Date: September 19, 1957
Creator: Long, R. M.
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Farm Pond

Photograph of a small boy holding a stinger of fish taken from a farm pond stocked with Bass and Crappie. Pond fertilized with barnyard manure and baled alfalfa.
Date: September 19, 1957
Creator: Price, Neil E.
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Timber Clearing

Photograph of timber sprayed in 1968 & 1969 then a chain pulled by two dozers to knock the timber down. This is a Hector complex soil-shallow savannah range site-the vegetation is in fair condition.
Date: September 6, 1970
Creator: McCampbell, James B.
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Wetumka Camp

Photograph of an UNIDENTIFIED man looking at cultivated tree plantings, planted in 1938, in the Muskogee District, Wetumka Camp, Wetumka, OK.
Date: September 23, 1939
Creator: unknown
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B1412.0274]

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "What could be one of the nuttiest jobs ever held by a beauty queen awaits the winner of a contest to be announced at the high school auditorium here Nov. 16."
Date: September 23, 1973
Creator: unknown
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B1054.0328]

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper.
Date: September 23, 1983
Creator: unknown
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History