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Civilian Conservation Corps
Photograph of a Civilian Conservation Corps [CCC] parade in Stillwater on Armistic Day, November 11, 1934.
Date:
November 11, 1934
Creator:
unknown
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Farming Equipment and Methods
Photograph of an Armistice Day parade of 1934 in Stillwater, Oklahoma feature Soil Conservation Service. First [unclear] for the Civilian Conservation Corps personne.
Date:
November 11, 1934
Creator:
Hollopeter, Chas A.
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Farming Equipment and Methods
Photograph of an Armistice Day** parade of 1934 in Stillwater, Oklahoma featuring Soil Conservation Service heavy farming equipment. **in the US, this became Veterans Day starting in 1954.
Date:
November 11, 1934
Creator:
Hollopeter, Chas A.
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Soil Conservation Camp
Photograph of two views of five truckloads of technical men in Stillwater, OK for a two-week training period to be sent out to the Soil Conservation Service [SCS] camps. Pictures can be pasted together from the back with adhesive tape. Handwritten note: "Fred Dries said he and Ross Hall are in one of the pictures, AAB." 9-446.
Date:
June 1935
Creator:
unknown
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Soil Conservation Camp
Photograph of two views of five truckloads of technical men in Stillwater, OK for a two-week training period to be sent out to the Soil Conservation Service [SCS] camps. Pictures can be pasted together from the back with adhesive tape. 9-445.
Date:
June 1935
Creator:
unknown
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Water Conservation; Water Erosion; Flooding and Prevention
Photograph of flood waters from Stillwater Creek encroaching upon the house of an African-American employee of the United States Geological Survey [USGS] as a silt collector. This flood was the result of a four inch rain in the Stillwater Creek watershed in the early part of June 1935. OK-9-485
Date:
June 1935
Creator:
unknown
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Yukon Camp Grounds
Photograph of a close-up view of a painting of the Yukon camp done by Harry Leibmann, a camp enrollee. OK-5073.
Date:
March 1936
Creator:
Slack, Jim
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Farming Equipment and Methods
Photograph of a strip of alfalfa, a terrace, a strip of oats and corn planted on the contour in strips. OK-5212.
Date:
May 26, 1936
Creator:
Slack, Jim
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Strip Cropping on the Contour With Cotton, Corn, and Alfalfa From Left to Right/Stillwater District and Project
Photograph of “Strip cropping on the contour with cotton, corn, and alfalfa from left to right.”
Date:
July 12, 1936
Creator:
Hufnagle
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Farming Equipment and Methods
Photograph of strip cropping with cotton, corn, alfalfa and corn in that order from the top of the slope downward.
Date:
July 18, 1936
Creator:
Hufnagle, Richard W.
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
UNIDENTIFIED Man Plowing Austrian Winter Peas As a Green Manure Crop
Photograph of an UNIDENTIFED man with horse drawn equipment plowing under Austrian Winter peas as a green manure crop. The back of the photograph proclaims, "Plowing under Austrian Winter Peas as a green manure crop on the Experiment Station farm at Stillwater, Oklahoma."
Date:
December 3, 1936
Creator:
unknown
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Cows Grazing on A Contoured Furrowed Pasture/Stillwater Project
Photograph of eleven cows grazing on a contour furrowed pasture, planted to Bermudagrass, buffalo, grama, and straminium. The back of the photograph proclaims, “Cows are here shown grazing on a contour furrowed field. The furrows have been planted to Bermuda grass and the predominating grasses of this of this virgin pasture are buffalo, grama, and straminium [sic]. Over pasturing in the early spring is considered detrimental."
Date:
April 27, 1937
Creator:
Slack, Jim
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Farming Equipment and Methods
Photograph of the seeding of contour ridges in native pasture, using lespedaza and sweet clover. The ridges were built with two rounds with terracing plow, then worked with the orchard disc. Seed broadcast by hand. Covering with two mower wheels as drag or barrow. OK-5668.
Date:
April 27, 1937
Creator:
Slack, Jim
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Contour Farming
Photograph of Boley Camp cooperative garden planted using contour farming methods by CCC workers. Contour farming: planting and cultivating crops around a hill rather than up and down the hill so the rows create a dam effect that slows water run-off. OK-5645.
Date:
May 6, 1937
Creator:
Slack, Jim
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Jersey Cattle Grazing on Sudan/Stillwater Project
Photograph of four Jersey cattle grazing on a field of Sudan. The back of the photograph proclaims, "Jersey cattle grazing in a field of Sudan grass planted for pasturage."
Date:
May 20, 1937
Creator:
Hufnagle, Richard W.
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Contour Farming
Photograph of water standing in lister ridges in field strip cropped with oats and listed food afte a heavy downpour. Note even distribution of water which stands where it falls in the contours. Constrast this with Picture K-5091 showing concentration of water in wash in low place in field. Taken after the same rain. OK-5629.
Date:
May 24, 1937
Creator:
unknown
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Farming Equipment and Methods
Photograph of a new type of contour plow developed at Blackwell Camp. This shows the second cut with the left hand plow digging deeper and sealing the cracks with loose dirt which was left by the first cut. OK-5631.
Date:
May 24, 1937
Creator:
Slack, Jim
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Farming Equipment and Methods
Photograph of a close up of a new contour ridging plow developed by the Blackwell Camp (@ Lake Carl Blackwell). Ok-5630.
Date:
May 24, 1937
Creator:
Slack, Jim
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Farming Equipment and Methods
Photograph of a new type of contour ridging plow developed at Balckwell Camp. OK-5632.
Date:
May 24, 1937
Creator:
Slack, Jim
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Water Conservation; Water Erosion; Flooding and Prevention
Photograph of terraced cotton field showing runoff water stored in the terrace channels 15 hours after a one-inch rain. The light colored strip beyond the water line shows the strip of land flooded shortly after the rain. OK-3/2406.
Date:
July 10, 1937
Creator:
Reif, Frank
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Blue Gramma Grass Field
Photograph of Stillwater Project showing Blue Gramma grass meadow which is loaded with seed.
Date:
September 11, 1937
Creator:
Slack, Jim
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Blue Gramma Grass Field
Photograph of Stillwater Project showing Blue Gramma grass meadow which is loaded with seed.
Date:
September 11, 1937
Creator:
Slack, Jim.
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Grass, Legume and Forb Cultivation
Photograph of observational grass plantings. Bermuda grass selections in the foreground. R7-32
Date:
November 5, 1937
Creator:
Kiltz, B. F.
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Contour Farming
Photograph of winter picture with wheat drilled in on the contour with semi-deep furrow drill.Each furrow acts as a miniature terrace and holds ice and snow from blowing off of field. This conserves moisture. OK-6008.
Date:
November 20, 1937
Creator:
Slack, Jim
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History