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[Letter from I. H. Kempner to Lee Webb, December 28, 1948] (open access)

[Letter from I. H. Kempner to Lee Webb, December 28, 1948]

Letter from I. H. Kempner to Lee Webb thanking Webb for sending pears, as a gift, to the Kempners.
Date: December 28, 1948
Creator: Kempner, Isaac H. (Isaac Herbert), 1873-1967
Object Type: Letter
System: The Portal to Texas History

Big Creek & Telocaset (BC&T) #5

A photograph print showing the Big Creek & Telocaset (BC&T) 5, Heisler steam loco, westbound, running backwards with three boxcars, about four miles west of Pondosa, OR.
Date: September 23, 1948
Creator: Griffiths, Henry R.
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Big Creek & Telocaset (BC&T) #5

A photograph print showing the Big Creek & Telocaset (BC&T) 5, Heisler steam loco, westbound, running backwards with three boxcars, about halfway between Pondosa and Telocaset, OR.
Date: September 23, 1948
Creator: Griffiths, Henry R.
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Big Creek & Telocaset (BC&T) #5

A photograph print showing the Big Creek & Telocaset (BC&T) 5, Heisler steam loco, westbound, running backwards with three boxcars, around high ledge and up a heavy grade just before descending into the valley around Telocaset, OR.
Date: September 23, 1948
Creator: Griffiths, Henry R.
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Big Creek & Telocaset (BC&T) #5

A photograph print showing the Big Creek & Telocaset (BC&T) 5, Heisler steam loco, eastbound leaving Telocaset, OR, with three empty boxcars. UP main line at left.
Date: September 23, 1948
Creator: Griffiths, Henry R.
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Big Creek & Telocaset (BC&T) #5

A photograph print showing the Big Creek & Telocaset (BC&T) 5, Heisler steam loco, eastbound with three empty boxcars, climbing the heavy grade three miles east of Telocaset, OR. [At least on boxcar is U.P.]
Date: September 23, 1948
Creator: Griffiths, Henry R.
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Big Creek & Telocaset (BC&T) #5

A photograph print showing the Big Creek & Telocaset (BC&T) 5, 3-truck Heisler steam loco, eastbound with three empty boxcars, climbing the heavy grade 3-1/2 miles east of Telocaset, OR. [First boxcar is U.P.]
Date: September 23, 1948
Creator: Griffiths, Henry R.
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Big Creek & Telocaset (BC&T) #5

A photograph print showing the Big Creek & Telocaset (BC&T) 5, 3-truck Heisler steam loco, eastbound with three empty boxcars, about 3 miles west of Telocaset, OR.
Date: September 23, 1948
Creator: Griffiths, Henry R.
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Union Pacific (UP) 3532

A photograph print showing the Union Pacific (UP) 3532, 2-8-8-0, on head of westbound mixed freight train nearing Kamela, OR, in the Blue Mountains. Locos 3521 and 3506 pushing. 70 cars, on the UP Main Line.
Date: July 24, 1948
Creator: Griffiths, Henry R.
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B1148.0769]

Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Near Arch Cape at Cannon Beach on the coast of Oregon, this tree weaves a delicate pattern against the light of the declining sun which seems doomed to drop into the Pacific Ocean."
Date: May 20, 1948
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Minable Reserves, Petrography, Chemical Characteristics, and Washability Tests of Coal Occurring in the Coos Bay Coal Field, Coos County, Oregon (open access)

Minable Reserves, Petrography, Chemical Characteristics, and Washability Tests of Coal Occurring in the Coos Bay Coal Field, Coos County, Oregon

Report issued by the Bureau of Mines discussing the coal reserves of Coos County, Oregon. Investigations conducted on the minable coal reserves are presented in detail. This report includes tables, maps, illustrations, and photographs.
Date: 1948
Creator: Toenges, Albert L.; Dowd, James J.; Turnbull, Louis A.; Schopf, J. M.; Cooper, H. M.; Toenges, Albert L. et al.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Strawberry Culture: Western United States (open access)

Strawberry Culture: Western United States

Revised edition. "Strawberries can be grown in those parts of the western Untied States in which ordinary farm crops are irrigated as well as in western Oregon and Washington, where irrigation is not essential but may be profitable. The principles of irrigating strawberries are essentially the same as those for other crops. Because strawberries are sensitive to the alkali salts that irrigation brings to the surface, such salts must be washed out or skimmed off. The strawberry grower, after choosing a suitable site and preparing the soil carefully, should select varieties adapted to his district and needs. He should use plants that are disease-free. In California, southern Arizona, New Mexico, and Texas the plants should have undergone a rest period. Usually the growers plant during the period of greatest rainfall. By using the recommended systems of training and care before, during, and after setting of the plants and the suggested methods of decreasing diseases and insect pests, he should obtain better yields. A grower can furnish consumers a better product by using good methods of harvesting and shipment. He can prolong the fresh-fruit season only a little by the use of cold storage, but he can extend his market by …
Date: 1948
Creator: Darrow, George M. (George McMillan), 1889- & Waldo, George F. (George Fordyce), b. 1898
Object Type: Pamphlet
System: The UNT Digital Library