Water Conservation; Water Erosion; Flooding and Prevention

Photograph of a water facilities pond that supplies water for the farmstead and livestock. The owner has hereford cattle. Basic grasses are midland Bermuda and cotton Bermuda. The pond is also stocked with fish. OK-1632-3.
Date: March 3, 1962
Creator: Bryan, Hugo
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

Water Conservation; Water Erosion; Flooding and Prevention

Photograph of a waterway along the northside of a farm sown in fescue with terrace spilling into the channel sown in wheat. OK-1601-1.
Date: October 23, 1961
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

Water Conservation; Water Erosion; Flooding and Prevention

Photograph of a creek with timber cleared and left bank shaped and sodded in Bermuda grass. OK-1600-10.
Date: October 23, 1961
Creator: Bryan, Hugo
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

Soils, Soil Erosion, Soil Conservation & Crop Management

Photograph of soil profile of Choteau silt loam soil (N6-A). This loamy prairie range site is a higher producer in Rogers County, OK. OK-1600-4.
Date: October 23, 1961
Creator: Bryan, Hugo
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

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

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 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

Water Conservation; Water Erosion; Flooding and Prevention

Photograph of a drainage ditch with lateral and bermudagrass on a 3 inch OK-1600-8.
Date: October 23, 1961
Creator: Bryan, Hugo
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Water Conservation; Water Erosion; Flooding and Prevention

Photograph of a waterway sown in the tall fescue. OK-1600-11.
Date: October 23, 1961
Creator: Bryan, Hugo
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

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

Water Conservation; Water Erosion; Flooding and Prevention

Photograph of a flood gate at the west side of the dyke on 3a soil. OK-1600-9.
Date: October 23, 1961
Creator: Bryan, Hugo
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

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