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[Photograph 2012.201.B0418.0052]

Photograph taken for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Tom Finney, an Idabel attorney, was honored today as the outstanding citizen of Idabel for the past year at the annual Community Builder's banquet this week, sponsored by the Idabel Chamber of Commerce."
Date: November 1, 1959
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B0108.0549]

Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Thousands of feet of hardwood lumber dry on the ground of Dierks hardwood mill south of Broken Bow."
Date: April 7, 1959
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B0108.0564]

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "a hardwood sawmill"
Date: April 5, 1959
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B0108.0563]

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "One independent firm builds complete homes out of scrap lumber."
Date: April 5, 1959
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B0120.0302]

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Jewel Callaham, Broken Bow, likely will be named director of the Oklahoma wildlife conservation."
Date: 1959
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B0118.0620]

Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "John Burwell, left manager of the land department in Oklahoma for Dierks Forests, Inc., looks on as Royce Hunter, manager of the Idabel Chamber of Commerce, inspects doors and paneling donated to the chamber by the timber firm."
Date: November 26, 1959
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B0297B.0632]

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Glen Householder wears a hand-made war bonnet and is holding a combination pipe and scalping axe manufactured in the early 1700s by the British and used to trade with the Indians."
Date: 1959
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B1056.0642]

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Floyd Pollard, former McCurtain county sheriff, has been chief of police at Idabel for two years."
Date: April 5, 1959
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B1385.0213]

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "The business district of Wright City is owned entirely by Dierks Forests, Inc., as are all the houses."
Date: 1959
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B1237.0193]

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Badge of honor is presented Sam Sellers, right, retired Idabel chief of police. An officer for 28 years, he was chief for the past 20 of those."
Date: October 18, 1959
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B0374.0126]

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "W. A. "Bill" Loftin sr., Idabel farm implement dealer, has a 400-acre farm southwest of the city."
Date: 1959
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B0374.0127]

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Tall cornstalks overshadow W. A. (Bill) Loftin, Idabel, in one of his lush cornfields."
Date: July 15, 1959
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B0941.0603]

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Sim Nelson, Idabel Mayor"
Date: 1959
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B0907.0702]

Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "W. H. "Bill" Mitchell, Broken Bow, is assistant state forester in charge of forest protection."
Date: April 7, 1959
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Tree Farming

Photograph of tree farming, pine trees planted in 1948.
Date: November 2, 1959
Creator: Bryan, Hugo
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Kudzu

Photograph of Kudzu at roadside. Planted by CCC boys in 1939. This Japanese plant is famous in the south for controlling gullies and steep land. It High in protein it is excellent forage.
Date: August 6, 1959
Creator: Hayes, Earl J.
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Trees, Tree Farms, Woodlands, and Forests

Photograph of Dierks Forest [from the lumber company established by the Dierks family beginning in 1903] in Valliant, Oklahoma. Follow-up of OK_656-9. 25c OH soil Class VII. Forest cleared by a D8 crawler tractor. Cut on and planted with pine seedlings on March 1958. OK-1072-3.
Date: November 25, 1959
Creator: Killim, O. J.
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Trees, Tree Farms, Woodlands, and Forests

Photograph ofa loblolly pine tree 26 inches in diameter and [illegible] high. It's the "mother tree" to 6 area pines on this farm. In 1955, the surounding seedlings were about post [?] size. OK-[?]29-4
Date: August 6, 1959
Creator: M. H. Conine
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B1385.0215]

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "These pine logs await processing of the giant Dierks Forest sawmill in Wright City."
Date: 1959
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Timber and Lumber Treatment

Photograph of a creosoting plant. Cylinder is 80 feet and 6 feet deep, has a capacity over 1,000 cubic feet of wood. This plant would cost $100,000 if purchased. OK-1061-10.
Date: November 2, 1959
Creator: Bryan, Hugo
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Timber and Lumber Treatment

Photograph of a creosoting plant. Cylinder is 80 feet and 6 feet deep, has a capacity over 1,000 cubic feet of wood. This plant would cost $100,000 if purchased. OK-1061-9.
Date: November 2, 1959
Creator: Bryan, Hugo
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Water Conservation; Water Erosion; Flooding and Prevention

Photograph of a before picture on the Whitegrass Waterhole. Looking northwest. Channel will be 8 feet deep and 35 feet flat at the bottom. 3 to 1 slide slope. OK-1061-6.
Date: November 2, 1959
Creator: Bryan, Hugo
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

UNIDENTIFED Man Standing Next to a 80-foot Pipe At A Creosoting Plant in Valliant

Photograph of a UNIDENTIFED man standing next to an 80 foot long, 6-foot deep pipe at a Creosoting plant in Valliant, Oklahoma. The back of the photograph proclaims, "Cylinder is 80' long, 6' deep, has capacity over 1,000 cu. ft. of wood. This plant would cost $100,000 if purchased."
Date: November 2, 1959
Creator: Bryan, Hugo
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Reunion in Smithville

Photograph of old settlers reunion in Smithville on June 21, 1959 with a large group of people in a park.
Date: June 21, 1959
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History