Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Frank Carmichael, Beckham Co. Rep."

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper.

Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Christian church- Erick Okla."

Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "1st Christian church , Erick."

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

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "After spending almost two days within Oklahoma's borders, Col. Charles A. Lindbergh and his flying wife had moved on westin their tour of holdings of Transcontinental and Western Air Inc. Thursday night."

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Visitors to the Elk City rodeo Thursday and Friday will see in addition the evidence of a real historical find--bones believed to be Black Kettle's. killed by General Custer's men Nov. 27, 1868."

Photograph taken for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Ninety-seven business and professional men left their places of business to form a shovel brigade in making repairs to Meridian highway leading to the bridge on the North Fork of Red River seven miles north of Erick."

Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper.

Photograph of the Elk City FD in 1936.

Photograph of a view of a contoured pasture. OK-5107.

Photograph of a close up view of a terraced-o0utlet structure, with masonry and dry rock with buttressed knee. OK-5106.

Photograph of the interior of the Ute Theatre, Sayre, OK.

Photograph of the exterior of the Ute Theatre, before remodel, Sayre, OK.

Photograph of a "View of contour listing between terraces for row crop planting."

Photograph of a diesel tractor converted for night work in the Elk City, OK area. Photo by Jim Slack, USDA Soil Conservation Service, March 1936.

Photograph of contour furrows in pasture land in order to control and preserve water as precipitation falls. Results have proven that this is one way to develop a good pasture. OK-5011.

Photograph of wind carrying silt on a clean, cultivated field. Notice how the wind picks up the soil and carries it higher the farther it goes. Also notice that the soil is not picked up until the wind has a chance to gather momentum close to the ground. The soil in the foreground is not being carried as the end of the field is near, and the fence and vagetation act as a windbreak. This wind erosion is aserious problem in western Oklahoma, Kansas and Southwestern Nebraska. OK-5123.

Photograph of "Deep scouring in lister ridges running up and down the slope. Taken after a heavy rain. Notice the silting at the base of the slope. This soil was washed from the furrows immediately above."

Photograph of a spreader ditch with masonry spreaders torn out by flood waters. Picture taken shortly after six inch rain fell in one night. Notice gullying in spreader and how the water flows out of the banks fo the ditch. OK-5142.

Photograph of flood damage to a spreader ditch. Shows some bermuda grass stripping still in place and shows overfall at masonry spreader. Taken shortly aftersix inch rain fall in one night. OK-5136.

Photograph of flood damage to a spreader ditch. Shows masonry spreaders torn completely out by flood waters. Taken shortly after a six inch rain in one night. OK-5135.

Photograph of severe sheet and slight gully erosion on an unterraced field after a heavy rain. Notice how all the soil which has been loosened by the plow was taken out of the channel at the bottom of the drainage, and how the small gullies in general followed the direction of the lister plow furrows up and down the slope. OK-5154.

Photograph of effects of water concentration through drainage which should have been left in natural sod. Picture taken after a 6 inch rain in one night. This picture shows how the water washed out all the soil loosened by the plow. The plow marks are quite visible. OK-5141.