Resource Type

Biology-Channel Catfish

Photograph of Jerome Sykora pointng out the features of these Catfish hatching pens to Myron Hurd. These pens are on the Moore Fish Farm near Claremore. The Moores have shifted their operations from market type Channel Catfish to fingerlings.
Date: August 6, 1967
Creator: Heidlage, Robert F.
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Coal Mining

Photograph of coal strip pits. This rugged physical condition provides cover for the wildlife, water for fish, and water fowls, and some livestock grazing. OK-1447-10.
Date: September 5, 1961
Creator: Moss, Allen R.
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Dock J. Polone Soil Painting

Photograph of a soil painting of an UNIDENTIFIED man by Dock J. Polone, Soil Scientist. The back of the photograph proclaims, "Soil painting by Dock J. Polone, Soil Scientist."
Date: January 1968
Creator: Heidlage, Robert F.
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Dock J. Polone With Three Soil Paintings

Photograph of Dock J. Polone, Soil Scientist, creating a soil painting. The back of the photograph proclaims, “Dock J. Polone putting finishing touches on a soil painting. Dock uses the different colors of soil and mixes these with glue and uses them to “paint” pictures. The three pictures here are studies of portraits of White, Negro, and Indian.”
Date: January 1968
Creator: Heidlage, Robert F.
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Grass, Legume and Forb Cultivation

Photograph of shallow prairie. Excellent condition.
Date: March 1962
Creator: Bryan, Hugo
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Grass, Legume and Forb Cultivation

Photograph of a fireguard protects valuable winter forage from outside fires. OK-1600-7.
Date: October 23, 1961
Creator: Bryan, Hugo
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Grass, Legume and Forb Cultivation

Photograph of a wildlife run composed of Sericea lespedeza and Johnsongrass along the edge of a meadow. OK-1446-6.
Date: September 5, 1961
Creator: Moss, Allen R.
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Grass, Legume and Forb Cultivation

Photograph of coal strip mines seeded to a mixture of biennial sweetclover, K [?], lespedeza and native grasses. Not the benching in the foreground due to grazing. OK-1447-12.
Date: September 5, 1961
Creator: Moss, Allen R.
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Grass, Legume and Forb Cultivation [?].

Photograph of the 31p Collinsville-Dennis complex. This loamy prairie site has an excellent native grass cover of big bluestem, little bluestem, switchgrass and Indiangrass. Note the small amount of bare ground in the drainageway. See 7-T20N, R17E. OK-1446-9.
Date: September 5, 1961
Creator: Moss, Allen R.
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Grass, Legume and Forb Cultivation

Photograph of a fireguard protects valuable winter forage from outside fires. OK-1600-7.
Date: October 23, 1961
Creator: Bryan, Hugo
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Grass, Legume and Forb Cultivation

Photograph of a shallow savannah range site showing an excellent stand of big bluestem, little bluestem and Indiangrass intermixed with an open stand of post and balckjack oak. Soils: Darnell-Stephenville complex, Se of SW [?] Sec. 23, T23N, R1 7E. OK-1446-2.
Date: September 5, 1961
Creator: Moss, Allen R.
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Grass, Legume and Forb Cultivation

Photograph of wildlife run composed of Sericea lampedaza and Johnsongrass along the edge of a meadow. OK-1446-4.
Date: September 5, 1961
Creator: Moss, Allen R.
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Grass, Legume and Forb Cultivation

Photograph of native range seeding on an [unclear] clay loam soil (2p-3). Big bluestem, little bluestem, switchgrass and Indiangrass were sown on a clean seedbed in March 1959; in July 1960, 2 tons of hay was cut from the seeded area. OK-1600-5.
Date: October 23, 1961
Creator: Bryan, Hugo
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Grass, Legume and Forb Cultivation

Photograph of a wildlife run composed of Sericea lespedeza and Johnsongrass along the edge of a meadow. OK-1446-6.
Date: September 5, 1961
Creator: Moss, Allen R.
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Grass, Legume and Forb Cultivation

Photograph of wildfire run [unclear] Lespedeza and Johnsongrass along the edge of a meadow [?]. OK-1446-4.
Date: September 5, 1961
Creator: Moss, Allen R.
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Grass, Legume and Forb Cultivation [?].

Photograph of Dennis silt loam soil, 6p - C with an excellent stand of big bluestem, little bluestem, Indiangrass and switchgrass. This loamy prairie site is the major upland [?] range site in Rogers County. OK-1446-7.
Date: September 5, 1961
Creator: Moss, Allen R.
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Grass, Legume and Forb Cultivation [?].

Photograph of soil bank lespedeza. [unclear] litter in the left foreground. 3 tons [?] top growth was over 5,750 pounds of litter after three years. OK-1600-2.
Date: October 23, 1961
Creator: Bryan, Hugo
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Oliver Feed Store

Photograph of machinery at Oliver Feed Store, property in right of way, south of Claremore Airport, Claremore, OK.
Date: August 23, 1965
Creator: unknown
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B0051.0525]

Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Only smoldering wreckage remains of the jet after crash near Inola."
Date: February 5, 1963
Creator: unknown
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B0076.0242]

Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper.
Date: May 10, 1965
Creator: Traverse, Austin
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B0135.0510]

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "A Claremore landmark is "The Belvedere," four-towered home planned by early-day builder J. M. Bayless who died in 1907 before it was completed. He was the father of the postmaster, Bourk Bayless."
Date: December 9, 1960
Creator: unknown
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B0135.0524]

Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "The state paid $57,000 for this old bath house and an adjacent vacant lot."
Date: 1967
Creator: unknown
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B0152.0307]

Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "The Robert S. Kerr Lock and Dam is one of 17 such structures nearly completed between Catoosa, Okla."
Date: 1969
Creator: unknown
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B0152.0393]

Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company.
Date: October 28, 1960
Creator: unknown
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History