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Native Grass Seed Storage at Douglas Aircraft Plant
Photograph of Joe Asher, driver, Clarence Day, D. B. Clagg, and W. L. Elliot storing a truckload of native grass seed from Coweta at the Douglas Aircraft plant in Tulsa. People shown in photo go as followed from left to right: 1. Joe Asher, driver, 2. Clarence Day, 3. D. B. Clagg, 4. W. L. Elliot. The back of the photograph proclaims, “The mile-long Douglas Aircraft plant at Tulsa was used for storage of Soil Conservation Service native grass seed. Here a truckload of seed from Coweta, near Broken Arrow, unloads. Left to right are Joe Asher, driver, from Ardmore, Okla., in the truck, left, Clarence Day, and right, D. B. Clagg, and on the ground, right, is W. L. Elliot. The latter three are from Claremore.”
Date:
October 8, 1948
Creator:
Reid, Louis
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Oklahoma Senator Elmer Thomas
Photograph of “Senator Elmer Thomas of Oklahoma speaks at the Cloud Creek watershed celebration.”
Date:
July 8, 1948
Creator:
Reid, Louis E.
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Grass, Legume and Forb Cultivation
Photograph of Jack Blue of Red Rock operates a combine harvesting bluestem grass seed. The sack of seed falling off the combine has been pushed by a second man who can't be seen in the picture because he stands immediately behind the sack. OK-9750.
Date:
October 8, 1948
Creator:
Reid, Louis E.
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Farming Equipment and Methods
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.
Date:
October 8, 1948
Creator:
Reid, Louis E.
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Two UNIDENTIFED Men Inspecting a Drop Inlet Site and Gully Plug
Photograph of two UNIDENTIFED men looking at a gully plug and drop inlet where a former dangerous bridge spanned a gully. The back of the photograph proclaims, "Drop inlet and gully plug built where formerly a sagging bridge spanned a jagged gully."
Date:
July 8, 1948
Creator:
Reid, Louis E.
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Native Grass Seed Storage at Douglas Aircraft Plant
Photograph of Joe Asher, driver, Clarence Day, D. B. Clagg, and W. L. Elliot storing a truckload of native grass seed from Coweta at the Douglas Aircraft plant in Tulsa. People shown in photo go as followed from left to right: Joe Asher, driver, Clarence Day, D. B. Clagg, and W. L. Elliot. The back of the photograph proclaims, "The mile-long Douglas Aircraft plant at Tulsa was used for storage of Soil Conservation Service native grass seed. Here a truckload of seed from Coweta, near Broken Arrow, unloads. Left to right are Joe Asher, driver, from Ardmore, Okla., in the truck, left, Clarence Day, and right, D. B. Clagg, and on the ground, right, is W. L. Elliot. The latter three are from Claremore."
Date:
October 8, 1948
Creator:
Reid, Louis
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Self-Propelled Combine Harvesting Big Bluestem on the T. J. Stockton Ranch
Photograph of an UNIDENTIFED man on a Massey-Harris self-propelled combine harvesting tall big bluestem grass. The back of the photograph proclaims, "Self-propelled combine going through tall big bluestem grass. Yields from this stand averaged better than 150 pounds to the acre. John Diehm of Red Rock is the owner of the machine. He operated under contract with the Soil Conservation Service."
Date:
October 8, 1948
Creator:
Reid, Louis
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Coffeyville, Kansas Airplane Hangar Used For Bluestem Grass Seed Storage
Photograph of a "Hanger [sic] at Coffeyville being used by the Soil Conservation Service to store seed of bluestem grasses harvested in Northeastern Oklahoma."
Date:
October 8, 1948
Creator:
Reid, Louis
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Indiangrass Being Unloaded And Spread Out to Dry
Photograph of three men from left to right, Bill Woods of Ardmore, Clarence Stevens and Bert Slape, both from Muskogee, unloading native grass seed, principally Indiangrass being spread out to dry. People shown in photo go as followed from left to right: 1. Bill Woods, 2. Clarence Stevens, 3. Bert Slape. The back of the photograph proclaims, "Unloading native grass seed, principally Indiangrass. Left to Right are Bill Woods of Ardmore, Clarence Stevens and Bert Slape, both of Muskogee. The see is being spread out to dry."
Date:
October 8, 1948
Creator:
Reid, Louis
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Bob Moore Spreading Bluestem Seeds 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."
Date:
October 8, 1948
Creator:
Reid, Louis
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Outside View of a Motor Repair Maintenance Shop Being Used as a Temporary Seed Drying and Storage Facility
Photograph of two UNIDENTIFED men taking seed out of a truck and placing it in a motor repair maintenance shop used as a temporary seed drying and storage facility. The back of the photograph proclaims, "Truckload of bluestem seed unloads in one of several motor repair maintenance shops which the Soil Conservation Service used to store seed so that it would dry."
Date:
October 8, 1948
Creator:
Reid, Louis
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Water Conservation; Water Erosion; Flooding and Prevention
Photograph of Senator Elmer Thomas of Oklahoma speaking a the Cloud Creek watershed celebration. OK-9616.
Date:
July 8, 1948
Creator:
Reid, Louis E.
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Water Conservation; Water Erosion; Flooding and Prevention
Photograph of Lloyd Partain, left, Curtis Publishing Company, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, talks with Don Larch, right, Columbia Broadcasting System [CBS] agricultural director, Washington DC at the Cordell celebration [referring to a Washita River Watershed flood control dedication held near Cordell, OK on July 8, 1948.] OK-9620.
Date:
July 8, 1948
Creator:
Reid, Louis
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Water Conservation; Water Erosion; Flooding and Prevention
Photograph of US Senator Elmer Thomas of Oklahoma speaking at the Cloud Creek Watershed celebration. OK-9616.
Date:
July 8, 1948
Creator:
Reid, Louis
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Water Conservation; Water Erosion; Flooding and Prevention
Photograph of Lloyd Partain, left, Curtis Publishing Company, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, talks with Don Larch, right, Columbia Broadcasting System [CBS] agricultural director, Washington DC at the Cordell celebration [referring to a Washita River Watershed flood control dedication held near Cordell, OK on July 8, 1948.] OK-9620.
Date:
July 8, 1948
Creator:
Reid, Louis
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Water Conservation; Water Erosion; Flooding and Prevention
Photograph of a view east across top of detention reservoir No. 1 on Cloud Creek. The 3 trucks at the pool of water are sprinkler equipped. Owned by the Oklahoma Department of Agriculture, the trucks were used to keep down dust on sandy roads during the dedication ceremonies on the upstream flood control structures. OK-9619.
Date:
July 8, 1948
Creator:
Reid, Louis
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Farming Equipment and Methods
Photograph of Robert S. Kerr, former governor of Oklahoma (1943 - 1947) and currently president of the Oklahoma Water Development Association, speaks at Cloud Creek during the dedication of upstream flood control structures. OK-9617.
Date:
July 8, 1948
Creator:
Reid, Louis
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Farming Equipment and Methods
Photograph of Earl Holt, farmer-cooperater of the district, left, and Edd Lemons, radio farm director of station WKY, during an interview in Cordell. OK-9615.
Date:
July 8, 1948
Creator:
Reid, Louis
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Farming Equipment and Methods
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.
Date:
October 8, 1948
Creator:
Reid, Louis
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Farming Equipment and Methods
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.
Date:
October 8, 1948
Creator:
Reid, Louis
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Grass, Legume and Forb Cultivation
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.
Date:
October 8, 1948
Creator:
Reid, Louis
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History