Photograph of an example of the vast land needed to construct modern highways to serve metropolitan areas like Tulsa. The foreground shows the I-44 Skelly By-Pass and Highway 75 Okmulgee Bee-Line, while the city of Tulsa is in the background. The back of the photograph proclaims, “Intersection of I-44 (Skelly By-Pass) and Highway 75 (Okmulgee Bee-Line). Tulsa in background. Shows the vast areas of land needed to construct modern highways to serve large metropolitan areas.”

Photograph of floodwater covering many acres of Pryor Creek bottomland. OK-3790-1.

Photograph of maintenance, site # 4, Whitegrass-Waterhole Watershed. Maintenance work being performed on Site # 4 for sewer damage. OK-4048-12.

Photograph of Wildhorse Creek Site # 126. Damage done to the concrete flume on WH-126 after a heavy rain of approximately 11 inches on Oct. 8, 1970. This flume is on the east side of the structure. OK-4028-13.

Photograph of a part of a collapsed church building, which fell into its own basement due to a flood. The back of the photograph proclaims, "Collasped [sic] church building which was recently completed. The structure had a basement. The area around the structure had not been backfilled. The were no provisions to divert flood water away from the structure."

Photograph of spreading refuse in a pit with a bulldozer.

Photograph of fence being replaced on the dam (Site 19 - Frank Carl) to protect woody vegetation to be planted for wave action damage. OK-3703-1.

Photograph of principal spillway discharging with lake above approximately 4 feet in flood stage. OK-4009-7.

Photograph of SCS biologist Gary Mullard, Claremore, OK, and Plant Material Specialist Bob Lippart, Manhattan, Kansas, examine plants being grown at the Bud Smith Plant Materials Center. OK-3972-1.

Photograph of Area Conservationist Archie Welch (center), Altus, OK, and two Texas participants in the Bud Smith Plant Materials Center (PMC) on a field day, examing grasses being grown. OK-3971-6.

Photograph of the dragline used to excavate the trench and the bulldozer beginning the first stage of covering compacted refuse. OK-3839-10.

Photograph of a bulldozer on top of a pile of debris, tilted at an angle toward a pit partially visible at the right side of the images. There are hills of gravel or soil behind the bulldozer and open fields in the background. Text on back "Spreading refuse in pit."

Photograph of dirt being spread over the partially compacted refuse. OK-3839-11.

Photograph of farm ponds. Silt deposit in a farm pond showing how silt reduces a pond's storage capacity and shortens its productive life. OK-4046-5.

Photograph of early morning sun over site # 107, Wildhorse Creek, multipurpose lake built for the city of Elmore City. OK-3805-7.

Photograph of Wildhorse Site # 107. The early morning sun over Site # 107, Wildhorse Creek, a multipurpose lake built for the city of Elmore City. OK-3805-7.

Photograph of watershed structures, Robbers Cave State Park. The embankment and principle spillway of the Fourche Maline Creek Watershed structure, number 5. OK-3801-3.

Photograph of Upper Bayou overflow. Oil wells and tanks as well as the entire bottom is inundated. OK-3961-12.

Photograph of flood damage to country road and bridge from heavy rain Oct. 8, 1970. OK-4022-6.

Photograph of upper Bayou overflow. House on the east side of Healdton. Note the height of the debris in front of the house. Water was about 8 or 10 feet deep in this and other houses at crest. OK-3961-6.

Photograph of watershed maintenance: a fence being replaced on dam (Site 19--Frank Carl) to protect woody vegetation to be planted for wave section damage. OK-3703-1.

Photograph of Maysville Lateral Site, B3. Bob Morton, SCS Geologist explaining core drill operations & investigations to local newspaper editor, Gary Gorshing of Maysville. OK-3734-13.

Photograph of Jack Hulet (left) and Albert Adler, a core drill crew inspecting the foundation of the centerline of dam. OK-3734-11.

Photograph of Bert Lavigne, district aid, watering Buterbush, just after planting. OK-3705-10.