Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Wayne Hume, machine shop operator built a swing ride."

Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "This Quonset type building erected at a cost of 6,600 is the only permanent fair structure owned by the Geary chamber of commerce."

Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "HUSKY Clemen Humphrey, veteran of many stock car race, will be in Friday night's racing lineup at Taft stadium."

Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Geary school supt. L. W. Good looks through plastic sunshades of study room."

Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "This is the block on east main in Geary which is blocked off for the annual fair."

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "James Burnham Blain Representative."

Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Assaf Kouri, center, hugs sister Naomi Farha, while Mr. and Mrs. Harry Kouri, Watonga, await their greeting turn."

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "How many times has Oscar P. Ruth gone to this thermometer shelter in his backyard?"

Caption: "Bob Russell, drugstore owner and co-owner of Hydro's theater, dusts off kiddie cars which are one of the town's home-made carnival rides."

Photograph of the Long Bell building in Watonga, Oklahoma.

Photograph of Bonnie Tice on a John Deer combine harvesting weeping lovegrass on 90 acre planting. The back of the photograph proclaims, "Bonnie Tice harvesting weeping lovegrass on a 90 acre planting. This planting is 2 years old and was fertilized in 1958 followed by being pastured most of that summer. In addition to being pastured, 2 cuttings of hay was removed which produced approximately 50 bales per core. Fertilizer was applied in 1959 at the rate of 50 lbs. of nitrogen per acre. The 1959 seed harvest was 10,400 lbs. of seed from the 90 acres. Since the seed harvest, a hay crop has been removed and approximately 69 head of cattle are being pastured."

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Getting small ferris wheel ready for fair (left) are Verlin Long, left, and Gene Lash, president of the Hydro fair association."

Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company.

Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company.

Photograph of Bennie Tice harvesting weaping lovegrass on a 90 acre planting. This planting is 2 years old and was fertilized in 1958 followed by beng pastured most of that summer. In addition to being pastured, 2 cuttings of hay was removed which produced approximately 50 bales per acre. Fertilizer was applied in 1959 at the rate of 50 lbs. of nitrogen per acre. The 1959 seed harvest was 10,400 lbs of seed from the 50 acres. Since the seed harvest, a hay crop has been removed and approximately 60 head of cattle are being pastured.

Photograph of George Dout and Gib Reynolds butchering a snake at Okeene Rattlesnake Hunt, circa 1959.

Photograph of Bill Felder, Harold Hoffman, George Dout, Eldon "Dundee" Wilson, John Felder and Paul Gorman butchering rattlesnakes, circa 1959.