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Stigler Project, LaFave Property

Photograph of Will and Wayne LaFarve with one nights catch of rabbits from 100 traps.
Date: January 14, 1939
Creator: Hurd, M. A.
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Stigler Project Opossum

Photograph of Omer and Orville Moore with 3 nights catch of opossum. Dogs and equipment used are also shown. Host of furs taken on farms under agreement.
Date: January 15, 1939
Creator: Hurd, M. A.
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Vicinity of Djamila, North Africa

Photograph of the largest and only village for many miles around the former city of Djemila, North Africa, which in Roman times boasted more than 11,000 population. Erosion still gouges out the denuded slopes.
Date: January 26, 1939
Creator: Lowdermilk, W. C.
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Excavated Roman City of Djemla

Photograph of the market square in the excavated Roman city of Djemila, where once were sold products of the surrounding lands. The denuded erosion gullied slopes bear mute evidence of their wreckage and soil losses. (North Africa)
Date: January 26, 1939
Creator: Lowdermilk, W. C.
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Vicinity of Djamila, North Africa

Photograph of the largest and only village for many miles around the former city of Djemila, North Africa, which in Roman times boasted more than 11,000 population. Erosion still gouges out the denuded slopes.
Date: January 26, 1939
Creator: Lowdermilk, W. C.
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Coliseum at El Djim, North Africa

Photograph of the giant coliseum at El Djem, North Africa, and a wretched village built on the covered ruins fo the ancient Roman city of Thysdrus. The coliseum seated 60,000 persons, which is many fold the entire population of the surrounding region today. El Djem, Tunisia.
Date: February 5, 1939
Creator: Lowdermilk, W. C.
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Palestine Judean Highlands

Photograph of the view from the Judean Highlands toward the Plain of Sharon showing field of barley. A guard to protect W.C.L. from possible terrorists in his examination of land use.
Date: September 1939
Creator: Lowdermilk, W. C.
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Contour Strip Cropping

Photograph of contour strip cropping on non-cooperator's farm. Last year's crop was cotton and sudan. Wheat is now growing on cotton rows and it is planned to put cotton in what is now sudan.
Date: January 20, 1939
Creator: Admire, Ira
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Qualil on Fence

Photograph of Quail perched on split rail fence.
Date: May 22, 1939
Creator: unknown
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Lloyd Lafave with Rabbit Traps

Photograph of Lloyd Lafave with about two-thirds of traps regularly operated during rabbit trapping season.
Date: January 15, 1939
Creator: Hurd, M. A.
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Rabbit Traps Made of Logs

Photograph of rabbit traps made of logs. Hundreds of traps of this type were used last winter for commercial rabbit trapping. Many of the farmers depend heavily on the income derived from rabbit trapping. The rabbits sold for 10 cents each. Mr. Lafaye caught over 300 rabbits before Christmas
Date: January 15, 1939
Creator: Hufnagle, Richard W.
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Farm Children with Rabbit

Photograph of two farm children, Ella Mae Moore, 8 years old and Vernon Moore, 6 years old, with rabbit taken from one of the gums regularly run by these clildren.
Date: January 15, 1939
Creator: Hurd, M. A.
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Fence Damaged by Pasture Fire

Photograph of a fence damaged by a pasture fire. All the grass in this large pasture was consumed by the fire, leaving only weeds and brush.
Date: September 8, 1939
Creator: unknown
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Bermuda Grass Lister Planter

Photograph of a bermuda grass lister planter showing construction of sod carrier and pipe through which sod is dropped into furrow.
Date: July 8, 1939
Creator: unknown
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Soil Conservation Association Meeting

Photograph of s meeting of the Soil Conservation Association at the Konawa, Oklahoma CCC camp. These meetings are held every Monday night.
Date: November 28, 1939
Creator: Hufnagle, Richard W.
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Sink Hole

Photograph of a sink hole near the edge of a huge gully near Binger. Water flowing through cleavage joints causes underground erosion, allowing the ground to sink as seen here.
Date: February 6, 1939
Creator: unknown
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Sand Load in Washita River

Photograph of a loop in the Washita River immediately above a head of sand load.
Date: February 5, 1939
Creator: unknown
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Head of Sand Load

Photograph of the head of sand load on the Washita River
Date: February 5, 1939
Creator: unknown
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Huge Gully near Binger

Photograph of sheer sided walls 100 feet high in huge gully near Binger, Okla.
Date: February 6, 1939
Creator: unknown
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Channel of Washita River

Photograph of the channel of the Washita River immediately below head of sand load.
Date: February 5, 1939
Creator: unknown
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Old Channel of the Washita

Photograph of the old channel of the Washita just south of Herring. This channel became clogged with debris and the river cut a new channel. This was the channel until May 1928. This desbris is made up largely of topsoil and silt as compound to the almost pure sand debris of the new channel. Picture 7085.
Date: 1939~
Creator: unknown
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Delta of Wild Horse Creek

Photograph of the delta of Wild Horse Creek, part of the Washita Flood Control Survey. Sand was carried down and deposited on fertile field. Wind is now making dunes and forbidding cultivation.
Date: February 5, 1939
Creator: unknown
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Road Threatened by the Washita River

Photograph of a road threatened by the Washita River. The river has cut toward the road eighty feet in two years.
Date: February 5, 1939
Creator: unknown
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Cut Bank on Washita River

Photograph of a cut bank on the Washita River below the sand load. 1/2 mile east, 1 mile south of Herring, Oklahoma.
Date: February 5, 1939
Creator: unknown
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History