Photograph of raindrop applicator in operation on red shale hills stie of Rolling Red Plains.

Photograph taken for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "The staff of Harry James, Oklahoma county agent, will be enlarged Monday with the addition of Claude Fite, Cordell, as assistant agent. Fite, a graduate of Oklahoma A&M college with a major in poultry husbandry, was a member of Oklahoma's 1941 national champion 4-h poultry judging team. In college, he took part in poultry judging contests in Baton Rouge, LA., and Memphis, TN, with the A&M team"

Photograph of a follow-up of a roadside drop-inlet flood control structure adjoining the Sid Lundy farm. The structure was built where formerly a dangerous wooden bridge spanned a gully on a school bus and mail route. County Commissioners furnished the pipe and the Soil Conservation District put in a fill through the Soil Conservation Service Flood Control program. The permanent basin is full of water. OK-9600-D.

Photograph of a drop-inlet gully control structure built by the Soil Conservation Service [SCS] Flood Control Program in the spring of 1948. Diversions bring the water into this gully plug and protect other gullies. Drainage area is 195 acres. OK-10, 213.

Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "This hospital in Sentinel will be Jack Keown's home for the next 10 weeks."

Photograph of a drop inlet on Cloud Creek watershed operating after a 4. 6 inch rain in 4 hours. This drop inlet is above Detention Reservoir No. 1. Very little of the one inch flood storage was used. A 48 inch pipe is through the dam and the 280 acre drainage area had good land treatment on it.

Photograph of detention reservoir # 2, Cloud Creek, one hour after a 4.6 inch rain fell in 4 hours. No water was discharged past the dam. There was approximately 1.2 inches of runoff. The earth embankment is 32,315 cubic yards. The drainage area is 600 acres. The permanent pool is 7.5 acres. 70 acre-feet storage and 1.4 inches [depth of water coverage?]. The flood pool is 18.6 surface acres. 113 acre feet storage 2.3 inches [depth of water coverage?]. Cost is $16,661.00. Benefit / cost ratio is 5.3 / 1. See OK-9541 and OK 9542. OK-10, 011.

Photograph of a drop inlet on the Cloud Creek watershed operating after a 4.6 inch rain in 4 hours. This drop inlet is above Detention Reservoir # 1. Very little of the one inch flood storage was used. A 48 inch pipe runs through the dam and the 280 acre drainage area had good land treatment on it. OK-10, 012.

Photograph of multiflora roses planted in 1947 as shrub in ain a shelterbelt between farmstead and field to the north. OK-994-B.

Photograph of D.O. Bermier, farm owner, and Willis J. Serrels, acting work unit conservationist, studying soils map after walking over a field, and making notes of practicies to be included in a farm plan. Applicant is a member of the Eden Conservation Group. Farm lies in Upper Rocky Creek sub-watershed of the Washita River. OK-8942.

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Burris G. Penn said he was really modest in extolling virtues of Washita County."