Photograph of Bob Kendall and Bill Wood unloading bluestem seed harvested from the Secrest Ranch into a truck bound for Camp Gruber. People shown in photo go as followed from left to right: 1. Bob Kendall, 2. Bill Wood. The back of the photograph proclaims, “Bob Kendall, left, and Bill Wood, right, both of Ardmore, unload a combine into a truck. The material they handle is bluestem seed. The truckload went to Camp Gruber, where it was spread out to dry.”

Photograph of Bob Moore spreading bluestem seed out to dry. The back of the photograph proclaims, "Bob Moore of Edna, Kansas, a temporary employe [sic] of the Soil Conservation Service, spreads bluestem seed out to dry on the floor of the airport hanger [sic] at Coffeyville. All this seed was out in the vicinity of Nowata, Oklahoma. It had to dry several days before it could be stored permanently in sacks."

Photograph of a herd of cattle grazing alfalfa in border-irrigated field. The back of the photograph proclaims, "Cattle on alfalfa in border irrigated field. Before soil conservation district was organized, this field was in sunflowers – just paid a little more than taxes – now 2 days grazing raised butter fat 200 lbs. The 250 acres of alfalfa has been grazed, raised 20,000 bales of hay this summer plus a seed crop. See Tex-44-788 and Tex-44-489."

Photograph of a "Hanger [sic] at Coffeyville being used by the Soil Conservation Service to store seed of bluestem grasses harvested in Northeastern Oklahoma."

Photograph of four UNIDENTIFIED "Daily laborers cleaning and sacking little bluestem seed."

Photograph of Earle Goode and Bill Wood unloading bluestem seed harvested from the Secrest Ranch into a truck bound for Camp Gruber. People shown in photo go as followed from left to right: 1. Earle Goode, 2. Bill Wood. The back of the photograph proclaims, "Earle Goode, left, and Bill Wood, right, both of Ardmore, unload a combine into a truck. The material they handle is bluestem seed. The truckload went to Camp Gruber, where it was spread out to dry."

Photograph of a crew using a scalper to clean up bluestem seed after it has come in from the combine. Claude Kilpatrick harvested about 50,000 pounds of little and big bluestem, Indiangrass and switchgrass. In the picture, left to right are Frank Zoski, Cecil Zoski and James Whitson. The scalper is located in Kilpatrick's barn. OK-9727.

Photograph of the unloading of native grass seed, pricinpally Indiangrass. The seed is being spead out to dry. From legt to right: Bill Woods of Ardmore, Clarence Stevens and Bert Slape of Muskogee. OK-9748.

Photograph of Darrell Grissom, left, of Waurika, Oklahoma, Soil Conservation service agronomist in charge of the bluestem harvest near Nomata, Oklahoma, works with Bob Moore of Edna, Kansas, temporary Soil Conservation Service employee, to spread bluestorm grass seed out to dry. A hanger at the Coffeyville Airport, Coffeyville, Kansas, was used as a drying space. OK-9735.

Photograph of Bob Kendell, left, and Bill Woods, right, both of Admore, unload a combine harvest into a truck. The material they handle is bluestem seed. The truckload went to Camp Gruber where it was spread out to dry. OK-9758.

Photograph of daily laborers cleaning and sacking little bluestem seed. OK-9791.

Photograph of the unloading of bluestem seed in the mile-long Douglas Aircraft plant in Tulsa. From eft to right: Clarence Day and D.B. Clagg, both in the truck, and W.L. Elliot on the ground. The seed is from Coweta, near Broken Arrow. OK-9754.

Photograph of Earle Goode, left, and Bill Woods, right, both of Admore, unload a combine harvest into a truck. The material they handle is bluestem seed. The truckload went to Camp Gruber where it was spread out to dry. OK-9757.

Photograph of Kilpatrick and Clarence Bunch, Washita River Flood Control agronomist from Geary, Oklahoma, who was in charge of the Soil Conservation Service seed harvest of northeastern Oklahoma native grass seed, stand by sacked bluestem seed which Kilpatrick has harvested for sale. More of the sacked seed canbe seen under the barn. OK-9728.

Photograph of a crew using a scalper to clean up bluestem seed after it has come in from the combine. Claude Kilpatrick harvested about 50,000 pounds of little and big bluestem, Indiangrass and switchgrass. In the picture, left to right are Frank Zoski, Cecil Zoski and James Whitson. The scalper is located in Kilpatrick's barn. OK-9727.

Photograph of three self-propelled combines operating under contract to the Soil Conservation Service cutting Big and Little Bluestem and Indiangrass. Yields have run around 150 pounds of the mixture to the acre, with Big Bluestem predominant. John Diehm of Redrock is the owner-operator of the machines. OK-9732.

Photograph of a flood damaged field in which floods drowned out all crops on this land due to improper drainage. The back of the photograph proclaims, "Looking north across these farms flood damaged fields. All crops drowned out on this land during the spring of 1948 on account of improper drainage."

Photograph of a "General view of bluestem grass, part of a large acreage, which soil conservation service harvested for use in replanting depleted rangeland and abandoned cropland in Texas and Oklahoma."

Photograph of Bob Moore of Edna, Kansas, a temporary Employee of the Soil Conservation Service, spreads bluestem seed out to dry on the floor of the airport hanger in Coffeyville, Kansas. All this seed was cut in the vicinity of Nowata, Oklahoma. It had to dry several days before it could be stored permanently in sacks. OK-9735.

Photograph of harvesting little bluestem. Tract reseeded in 1944. Wendell Campbell operating his combine. OK-9790.

Photograph of heads of Hairy grama (Bouteloua hirsute). TX-44, 279.

Photograph of flowers, leaves, stems and tap root of Leavenworth’s Eryngo (Eryngium leavenworthii). TX-44, 747.

Photograph of the flowers, leaves, stems and top root of an eryngo plant TX-44, 747.

Photograph of the combining sericea lespedeza. OK-9795.