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[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
[BASEMENT BOX 67.0346]
Photograph of a sign featuring Smokey the Bear, used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. The text of the sign says, "Today's Forest Fire Danger: Severe." There are trees in the background. Caption: "Smokey the Bear flashes the right sign for forest fire conditions in southeastern Oklahoma. The sign is near the Oklahoma Forestry Fire Control division headquarters at Broken Bow where officials have warned that conditions still are severe although fires have lessened."
Date:
April 9, 1955
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.B1385.0214]
Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "A general view of the new sawmill taken from the north east."
Date:
April 1, 1957
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
[Photograph 2012.201.B1385.0211]
Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Some of the first dollars RGM earned as a 14-year-old boy, came while we worked as a sawdust boy at a sawmill during summer school vacation periods."
Date:
April 1, 1957
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
[Photograph 2012.201.B01005.0330]
Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Nestled among the pines in Cabin Area 3 is a $14,860 duplex cabin, newest addition to cabin facilities at Beavers Bend state park, near Broken Bow."
Date:
April 28, 1955
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
[Photograph 2012.201.B01005.0328]
Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "The scenic piney woods road that leads to Beavers Bend state park on the Mountain fork river."
Date:
April 25, 1950
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
[Photograph 2012.201.B01005.0332]
Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "The Beavers Bend spillway hints of good fishing for this pretty angler."
Date:
April 11, 1952
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
[Photograph 2012.201.B01005.0329]
Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "A familiar spot to vacationists at Beavers Bend state park, near Broken Bow, is the bath house and beach on the banks of the Mountain fork."
Date:
April 28, 1955
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Trees, Tree Farms, Woodlands, and Forests
Photograph of Alvin Howard, Forest Service [FS] representative at Idabel, Oklahoma, measuring the circumference of a pine tree. "This pine tree would bring $65.00 based on recent bid sales," he says. The diameter tape tells Howard this tree is 31 inches across or diameter at breast height [dbh]. It is 80 feet high. The Soil Conservation Service administered this land for 16 years. OK-243-10.
Date:
April 19, 1956
Creator:
Hayes, Earl J.
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Trees, Tree Farms, Woodlands, and Forests
Photograph of the Little River Soil Conservation Department [SCD] as it pursues a vigorous forestry program. High grading the woods and leaving the worst for 40 years makes good forest more expensive and difficult as the task becomes even larger or greater. Over 300,000 acres need inferior upload hardwood controlled in predominant pine stands. East of Glover near Bethel.
Date:
April 22, 1956
Creator:
Hayes, Earl J.
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Water Conservation; Water Erosion; Flooding and Prevention
Photograph of the Little River in McCurtain County, Oklahoma. Oklahoma water goes to sea. Filtered through a protected, well-covered watershed means clear water. Probably two million acre-feet* of water escape the Little River SCD as unused each year. Mt. Fork River carries around one-third of the district watershed. OK-260-10. * an acre-foot refers to water that covers one acre of land, at a depth of one foot = approx. 326,000 gallons.
Date:
April 22, 1956
Creator:
Hayes, Earl J.
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Trees, Tree Farms, Woodlands, and Forests
Photograph of harvest cutting of timber. Janie Bell Snow, six-years-old, does her part on the School Forest Harvest Day.
Date:
April 23, 1958
Creator:
Hayes, Earl J.
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Disking New Land
Photograph of Pat Martin farm in Valliant district. Herschel Ginn is disking new land with heavy disk. Martin says the disk cuts stove wood as it prepares corn land.
Date:
April 19, 1956
Creator:
Hayes, E. J.
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Floyd-Campbell Farm Post to Water Topping Levee
Photograph of the Floyd-Campbell farm field completely flooded by water after levee was topped by water on the right background side of photo. The back of the photograph proclaims, "Same scene as Okla-457-7 a few minutes after levee was topped by water."
Date:
April 29, 1957
Creator:
North, Fred
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
School Harvest Day
Photograph of Dan Armstrong and Jim Neal assisting with the school harvest day at Brushy Ridge School Forest.
Date:
April 23, 1958
Creator:
Hayes, Earl J.
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Stauter Farm Flood
Photograph of Stauter farm flood. Flooding on the Red River at Tom Dekalb Ferry.
Date:
April 25, 1957
Creator:
Hayes, Earl J.
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
[Photograph 2012.201.B1293.0406]
Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "The giant cypress tree, east of Broken Bow, measures 45 feet in circumference at its base."
Date:
April 5, 1959
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
[Photograph 2012.201.B1363.0799]
Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "This white frame building as the main girls' dormitory at old Wheelock academy near Millerton until 1955."
Date:
April 5, 1959
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
[Photograph 2012.201.B1293.0408]
Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Miss Carolyn Maddry of Idabel fondling dogwood blossoms in the forest a few miles east of her home."
Date:
April 16, 1958
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
[Photograph 2012.201.B1293.0404]
Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "In your coumn during past years we've seen a picture of Oklahoma's biggest tree a few times."
Date:
April 28, 1952
Creator:
Lucas, Jim
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History