Photograph of Jerome Sykora sodding Prairie Cordgrass on shore line as field trial to determine effect it will have on reducing erosion caused from wave action.

Photograph of recreation pasture. Official Dogtown. The edge of a prairie dog town encroaching into the Flats site in excellent condition. Utilization in Dogtown is severe and outside of it, it is light. OK-1105-9.

Photograph of pasture planting. Cow and calf, part of 20 head of cows with calves grazing 70 acres of 1st year of Bermuda grass overseeded to vetch and rye in the fall of 1959. OK-1112-11.

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "We've almost decided if we ever give up meditating in our tree houses that we build ourselves a stone house-in-the-round. Esther Henke, our At Home cover girl this week, says that a round house is a perfect place for meditating. You think nice friendly thoughts in a circular atmosphere, she says. Esther, who likes to entertain, finds that when people sit in a friendly circle in front of a roaring wood - burning fireplace (she says - gas jets are cheating) that good cheer and benevolence just naturally follow. there are cso many trees, bushes and birds around Esther's round house out on Woodland Drive (just off 43 and Lincoln Blvd.) that she says sometimes she feels as if she's living in a tree house, too...Esther hopes to keep the landscape in its natural state, in keeping with the rustic interior of the house (no paint has been used anywhere inside the house and only on one circular piece of wood on the front exterior......The unique thing about Esther's house is that a common wall forms both exterior and interior walls. "Sometimes two layers of stone were used," Esther …

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Fire, whipped by 27-mile-an-hour winds, raced through a three-story unit of the nearly complete Ramada Inn Motel on the Northeast Expressway Wednesday afternoon. Damage may run to $100,000. The blaze ruined possibly 31 motel units, plus a large linen room and will delay the anticipated July 5 completion date about 45 days, according to W. W. Stacy, general superindendent for the contractor, Firemen battled nearly an hour to get the blaze under control. Oklahoma City dispatched 10 pieces od equipment to the scene and Nichols Hills aided with two more trucks. Wind and the fact thay hose had to be strung about three quarters of a mile to the nearest water mapered the firefighters, who were directed by District Chief Ben Dancy...The Ramada Inn us a $1.5 million project of 159 rooms going up on a bluff at 1300 Northeast Expressway. The contractor is H. & J. Construction Co. of Phoenix. Owners are Sylvanus G. Felix, Eugene Jordan and Tony Marneres, all of Oklahoma City. Capt. Bert Kuehnert, assistant fire marshall, said the blaze started when a workman, Harvey Davis, route 11, overturned a "salamander" - a kerosene fueled …

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Keeping step with its sales that have swelled from $1 million on its first year here in 1941 to more than $34 million in 1959, the Oklahoma Division of the Fleming Co. is adding another 72,105 square feet to its wharehouse and offices at 3501 N Sante Fe. In addition, shown above and to the right of the dotted lines, will expand to 192,577 sqaure feet Fleming;s facilities for supplying IGA Food Stores, a voluntary retail group. Fleming was established here in August 1941 when it purchased Carroll-Brough-Robinson, wholesale grocery firm at 3 E. Main. Fleming moved to its present locations in 1944 and now has 175 employes as compared with 50 in 1941."

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Fire, whipped by 27-mile-an-hour winds, raced through a three-story unit of the nearly complete Ramada Inn Motel on the Northeast Expressway Wednesday afternoon. Damage may run to $100,000. The blaze ruined possibly 31 motel units, plus a large linen room and will delay the anticipated July 5 completion date about 45 days, according to W. W. Stacy, general superindendent for the contractor, Firemen battled nearly an hour to get the blaze under control. Oklahoma City dispatched 10 pieces od equipment to the scene and Nichols Hills aided with two more trucks. Wind and the fact thay hose had to be strung about three quarters of a mile to the nearest water mapered the firefighters, who were directed by District Chief Ben Dancy...The Ramada Inn us a $1.5 million project of 159 rooms going up on a bluff at 1300 Northeast Expressway. The contractor is H. & J. Construction Co. of Phoenix. Owners are Sylvanus G. Felix, Eugene Jordan and Tony Marneres, all of Oklahoma City. Capt. Bert Kuehnert, assistant fire marshall, said the blaze started when a workman, Harvey Davis, route 11, overturned a "salamander" - a kerosene fueled …

Photograph of an illustration of different people.

Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper.

Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Swamp treading motorist sloshes through S Lindsay bog."

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Workmen can be seen putting finishing touches on the new Plaza Tower Hotel as it is readied for opening next Sunday."

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

Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "This is pit into which John Wright fell. He hit pole and then springs at right."

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

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

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

Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "A Methodist Indian congregation's brand new church is almost finished at 400 SW 31."

Photograph of the exterior St. Martin's Lutheran Church that features and arched, geometric roof line a wide set of steps seen in the foreground. A statue of Jesus can be seen hung on the exterior wall. A large tower structure with a cross on top can be seen rising from the church in the background.

Photograph of a woman wearing an evening gown while gesturing towards a motorized cart being advertised by Powered Products of Texas. Her dress is a dark color, and she is wearing light colored gloves and dark high heels. The cart is three wheeled with now rood or doors. A bench seat for one or two riders can be seen in the cart along with a long metal handle in the front that appears to be for steering.

Photo of an aerial view of Cato Oil Plant on NE 9th Street in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma

Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Throughly enjoying her homecoming is Pauletta Lou Ward, Enid infant who spent all but four days of her first 4 1 / 2 months in a hospital undergoing and recuperating from three operations."

Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "New flags for outside and inside at Harmony School, along with brass eagles for tops of two indoor flag poles, are presented to Robert Webb, principal, by Margaret Seymour, Gail Self and Neta Stephenson, winners in Camp Fire Girls candy sales last year."

Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Declared "wheat king" of Oklahoma on basis of judging in the state wheat show at Enid was Fred Winters."

Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "It was a lovely bit of silver which Harold Wallace, center, won when his Pointer, Jake, was adjudged winner of first place in the shooting dog stake of the Dr. D.H. Fleetwood Memorial field trial near Lake Hiwasse."