Bermuda Grass Terraced System

Photograph of follow-up of Okla 5135 & Okla 5136, terrace outlet channel well vegetated with Bermuda grass.
Date: November 17, 1937
Creator: Hufnagle, Richard W.
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Farming Equipment and Methods

Photograph of the contrast between two pastures. On the left, it has been heavily grazed. On the right it has had one year of protected grazing. OK-5945.
Date: November 17, 1937
Creator: Hufnagle, Richard W.
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B0307.0024]

Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company.
Date: August 21, 1937
Creator: unknown
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Missouri, Kansas & Texas (MKT) "Katy" 306

A photograph print showing the Missouri, Kansas & Texas (MKT) "Katy" 306, 4-4-0 (BLW, class E-3), Elk City, OK.
Date: August 1937
Creator: George, Preston
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Missouri, Kansas & Texas (MKT) "Katy" 306

A photograph print showing the Missouri, Kansas & Texas (MKT) "Katy" 306, 4-4-0 (BLW, class E-3), on a northbound passenger train, Elk City, OK.
Date: August 1, 1937
Creator: George, Preston
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Missouri, Kansas & Texas (MKT) "Katy" 306

A photograph print showing the Missouri, Kansas & Texas (MKT) "Katy" 306, 4-4-0 (BLW, class E-3), on a northbound passenger train, Elk City, OK. ("neg to Kelley")
Date: August 1, 1937
Creator: George, Preston
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Contour Farming

Photograph of cooperating farmers andSoil Conservation Service Conservationist examining nodular development on roots of sweet clover plants. This patch, 8 1/2 acres sown in fall in a strip on the contour will be utilized as seed and soil building crop.
Date: July 17, 1937
Creator: Slack, Jim
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

UNIDENTIFED farmer and an UNIDIENTIFED Soil Conservation Service Conservationist Examining Modular Development on Roots of Sweetclover Plants/Elk City Project

Photograph of an UNIDENTIFED farmer and an UNIDIENTIFED Soil Conservation Service Conservationist examining modular development on roots of sweetclover plants. The back of the photograph proclaims, "Shows cooperating farmers and Soil Conservation Service Conservationist examining modular development on roots of sweet clover plants. This patch – 8 ½ acres sown in fall in a strip on the contour will be utilized as seed and soil building crop."
Date: July 17, 1937
Creator: Slack, Jim
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Rye Harvest

Photograph of cutting rye withbinder on terrace. Rye broadcasted and cultivated in with cultivator on contour.
Date: July 16, 1937
Creator: Slack, Jim
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Contour Farming

Photograph of planting cotton on the contour in a terraced feld with large tractor.
Date: July 15, 1937
Creator: Slack, Jim
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Erosion Control

Photograph of a cotton field with rows running up and down the hill during a 4-inch rain. Note the relatively small amount of water in the rows. It is running down in the hill and emptying into the wash in the background. This wash is cutting directly across the filed and is over 100 feet wide and about 18 inches deep. This picture was taken the same time as picture number Okla. 5837. Contract the pictures for the value of contour farming. This farm is situated directly North across Highway No. 9 of the Thayer farm shown in picture number Okla. 5837.
Date: July 15, 1937
Creator: Slack, Jim
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Erosion Control

Photograph of cotton planted on the contour in a terraced field, showing lister furrows and terrace channel full of water after a four inch rain. Note small cotton plants in lister furrows. Contrast this picture with Okla-5838, which was taken at the same time showing a cotton field with rows up and down the hill immediately across the road.
Date: July 15, 1937
Creator: Slack, Jim
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Hobart Camp Wheat Project

Photograph of cutting and threshing wheat on the contour with a combine in a terraced field. The wheat was drilled in with a deep furrowed drill on the contour.
Date: July 15, 1937
Creator: Slack, Jim
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Hobart Camp Wheat Project

Photograph of cutting and threshing wheat on the contour with a combine in a terraced field. The wheat was drilled in with a deep furrowed drill on the contour.
Date: July 15, 1937
Creator: Slack, Jim
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Wheat Harvest

Photograph of harvesting wheat on the contour with a combine cutting an eight foot swath. He wheat was drilled in on the contour with a deep furrow drill and the field was terraced.
Date: July 15, 1937
Creator: Slack, Jim
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B0229.0626]

Photograph taken for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper.
Date: July 13, 1937
Creator: Hughes, J.
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B0253.0084]

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Rex Hawks - Elk City state Highway Patrolman"
Date: July 13, 1937
Creator: Hughes, William J.
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B1410.0131]

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Charles Williams, Oklahoma Highway Patrol"
Date: July 13, 1937
Creator: Hughes, William J.
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Farming Equipment and Methods

Photograph of contour blanklisted furrows in the foreground which are not only protecting this field but are collecting soil blowing from the unprotected field in the background. The angle which the closest man is leaning into the wind indicates its velocity. OK-5466.
Date: March 19, 1937
Creator: Hufnagle, Richard W.
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B0237.0087]

Photograph taken for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper.
Date: February 13, 1937
Creator: unknown
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B0276.0377]

Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper.
Date: January 23, 1937
Creator: Owen, A. Y.
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B0260B.0305]

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Just above, the Erick FFA boys an some of their stock in the judging ring."
Date: 1937
Creator: unknown
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History