Photograph of overflow damage from Sugar Creek done to a UNIDENTIFED farm's buildings, fields, and bottomlands two miles south of Gracemont. The back of the photograph proclaims, "Sugar Creek overflowing bottomlands, injuring pavement (sections washed out), drowning out crops, breaking levies and dykes and flooding homes."

Photograph of a field covered in silt after the nearby Sugar Creek overflowed its banks. The back of the photograph proclaims, "Siltation of fields caused by overflowing of Sugar Creek."

Photograph of roots of a cotton plant being turned by a plow pan [i.e., a subsurface horizon or soil layer having a high bulk density and a lower total porosity than the soil directly above or below it as a result of pressure applied by normal tillage operations]. OK-125-6.

Photograph of roots of cotton plant being turned by plow pan.

Photograph of running indiltration test after leveling for border irrigation. Farm planning Soil unit 4h-RP-A-1, present indiltration rate as measured by the infiltrometer - .2 inches per hour.

Photograph of Weeping Lovegrass meadow strip, terrace system and contour farming.

Photograph of peanuts and grain sorghum strip cropped, 8 x 8 in rows.

Photograph of blue panic grass in crop rotation. Grass was planted in the late spring of 1954. OK-128-12.

Photograph of the south end of a waterway, just staked,, looking north. Designed on non-erosive grade for drainage of 1600 acres for 3700 feet spilling into the South Canadian River. It protects several acres of bottom alfalfa land. Photo OK-184-12 shows the waterway after construction started. OK-184-10.

Photograph of the Harry Buckmaster Farm. Overfall of pond spillway is about to go out. Shooting upstream. No sandrock. This will require expensive maintenance. OK-184-7.

Photograph of SCS Technician B.P. Prickett examining stubble mulch tillage. First time over with 32" sweeps-4" deep. Before 3" rain. No runoff here from rain. Adjoining cotton field washed considerably.

Photograph of a completed stock pond road fill project on I. C. Ingram's land in Caddo county. The back of the photograph proclaims, "Completed stock pond road fill project. 385 acres drainage area. This was a cooperative project between Ingram, Caddo Co. Commissioners, SCS and ACP. Pond area has been fenced and earthen fill sodded to grass. Ingram has 400 acres in Caddo Co. and all is under basic plan with North Caddo SCD. He started work in 1945 and has been applying soil conservation practices each year."

Photograph of an UNIDTENTIFED man (George Nixon") standing on a concrete structure used to control gully erosion. This particular concrete structure is located underneath a bridge. The back of the photograph proclaims, "The bottom of the apron is at stable grade. Gully banks will slough off for a while but will become stable in relation to bootom [sic] of gully."

Photograph of a completed stock pond – road fill project. 385 acres drainage area. This was a cooperative project between I.C. Ingram, Caddo County Commissioners, the Soil Conservation Service [SCS] and the Agricultural Conservation Program [ACP]. Ingram needed stock water and received assistance from ACP for that purpose. Caddo County Commissioners furnished extra yardage needed to make it suitable for a raod fill. Ingram has 400 acres in Caddo County and all of it is under a basic plan with the North Caddo Soil Conservation District [SCD]. He started work in 1945 and has been applying soil conservation practices each year. OK-891-3.

Photograph of a dam constucted by beavers. Section of this dam was broken and beavers repaired it soon after. Photo was submitted for possible use in the Water for America Exhibit.

Photograph of a dam constructed by beavers. Section of this dam was broken and beavers repaired it soon after. Photo was submitted for possible use in the Water for America Exhibit.

Photograph of Chickasha dam and reservoir. Recreaton was opened to the public on 5/18/60 for the first time. Photo was submitted for possible use in the Water for America Exhibit.

Photograph of Chickasha dam and reservoir. Recreaton was opened to the public on 5/18/60 for the first time. Photo was submitted for possible use in the Water for America Exhibit.

Photograph of combining Cheyenne Indiangrass seed.Seeded in 1958. Seed for this planting furnished by Plant Material Center.

Photograph of several people running a large combine in a grassy field. Typed description on back: "Combining Cheyenne Indiangrass seed. Seeded in 1958. Seed for this planting furnished by Plant Material Center."

Photograph of SCS technicians B.P. Prickett and L.J. McDonald, Assistant State Conservationist, examine stubble mulch tillage just prior to seeding wheat. This stubble mulch tillage was done with 30 inch sweeps.

Photograph of dam constructed by beavers. Section of this dam was broken and beavers repaired it soon after. Photo was submitted for possible use in the Water for America Exhibit.

Photograph of dam constructed by beavers. Section of this dam was broken and beavers repaired it soon after. Photo was submitted for possible use in the Water for America Exhibit.

Photograph of a dam constucted by beavers. Section of this dam was broken and beavers repaired it soon after. Photo was submitted for possible use in the Water for America Exhibit.