[Photograph 2012.201.B0145.0272]

Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company.
Date: March 8, 1951
Creator: Owen, A. Y.
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Water Conservation; Water Erosion; Flooding and Prevention

Photograph of Sargeant Major Creek and watershed area. Site 3, showing rock core. Station 0+00 [unclear] dam. OK-217-7.
Date: March 6, 1956
Creator: Ritchey & Blackletter.
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Floodwater Detention Structure

Photograph of floodwater detention structure, Site No. 25, Barnitz Creek. Drainage area - 690 acres, flood storage - 229 acre feet. Sediment storage - 95 acre feet. Sediment pool area - 9. 8 acres. Aerial view
Date: 1957-03-XX
Creator: Brune, Gunnar
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B0240.0512]

Photograph taken for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "MM-1c M. A. Younger is convinced the well water in western Oklahoma is every bit as potent as the late Mrs. Lou Cordell of near Durham in the Northwest corner of Roger Mills county swore it back in October of 1942."
Date: March 4, 1957
Creator: unknown
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Deep Plowed Field For Shinnery Control

Photograph of a field deep plowed to control an infestation of shinnery oak. The back of the photograph proclaims, "Deep plowing for shinnery control. Field badly infested with shinnery oak. Shinnery was 25' high when deep plowed in 1956. Sorghum cover will be established and field seedbed to climax native grasses."
Date: March 31, 1958
Creator: unknown
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Deep Plowed Field For Shinnery Control

Photograph of a portion of a herd of cattle grazing in a field deep plowed to control an infestation of shinnery oak. A house and a barn are visible on the far right of photograph. The back of the photograph proclaims, “Deep plowing for shinnery control. Field badly infested with shinnery oak. Shinnery was 5 to 20’ tall when deep plowed. Field was drug with cross ties; pnewayed [sic] and seeded to rye fall 1957. Deep plowed in April, 1957. 22 acres deep plowed. Eighty-five head of cattle was counted grazing field in March 1958."
Date: March 31, 1958
Creator: unknown
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Land Clearance, Cultivation & Brush and Weed Control

Photograph of deep plowing for shinnery oak shrub control. This field is badly infested with shinnery oak, being 5 to 20 feet tall when it was deep plowed. The field was drug with cross ties; [unclear] and seeded to rye in the fall of 1957. 22 acres were deep plowed. Eighty five head of cattle were counted as grazing in the filed in March, 1958. OK-658-6.
Date: March 31, 1958
Creator: unknown
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Land Clearance, Cultivation & Brush and Weed Control

Photograph of deep plowing for shinnery oak control. The field was plowed 20 inches or deeper in August, 1957. It was seeded to rye in the fall without any seedbed preparation. Sudan or sorghum cover will be established in 1958. Climax native grasses will be seeded in 1959. OK-658-3.
Date: March 31, 1958
Creator: unknown
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B0223.0017]

Photograph taken for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "At right is modern Black Kettle museum if located in downtown Cheyenne."
Date: March 7, 1959
Creator: Daily Oklahoman
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History