State Office Personnel, Allen D. Russell

Photograph of Allen D. Russell, Personnel Officer
Date: February 9, 1968
Creator: Bryan, Hugo
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

State Office Personnel, Ross W. Hall

Photograph of Ross W. Hall, State Administrative Officer
Date: February 9, 1968
Creator: Bryan, Hugo
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

State Office Personnel, Frederick Wheeler

Photograph of Frederick Wheeler, Administrative Officer
Date: February 9, 1968
Creator: Bryan, Hugo
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

State Office Personnel, Joe D. Nichols

Photograph of Joe D. Nichols, Soil Correlator
Date: February 9, 1968
Creator: Bryan, Hugo
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

State Office Personnel, Clyde Graham

Photograph of Clyde Graham
Date: 1972~
Creator: unknown
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Personnel, Lemuel F. Ball

Photograph of Lemuel F. Ball, Area Conservationist, SCS, Claremore, Okla.
Date: February 6, 1971
Creator: Croom, Dan F.
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

State Office Personnel, Norman L. Ryker

Photograph of Norman L. Ryker, Civil Engineer
Date: February 9, 1968
Creator: Bryan, Hugo
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

State Office Personnel, Henry T. Otsuki

Photograph of Henry T. Otsuki, State Soil Scientist
Date: February 9, 1968
Creator: Bryan, Hugo
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Flooded Farmland

Photograph of flooded farmland west of Stillwater. Flooded hundreds of acres of armland and homes in the lowland.
Date: October 13, 1959
Creator: Chance, E. J.
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

State Office Personnel, William E. Hardesty

Photograph of William E. Hardesty, Civil Engineer
Date: February 9, 1968
Creator: Bryan, Hugo
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

State Office Personnel, Sam Combs, Jr.

Photograph of SAM Combs, Jr., Soil Conservationist State SCS Staff, Stillwater, Oklahoma.
Date: March 12, 1971
Creator: Croom, Dan F.
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Mr. Sam Combs, Jr. (2)

Photograph of Mr. Sam Combs, Jr. , Soil Conservationist State SCS Staff. Duplicate Photo.
Date: March 12, 1971
Creator: Groom, Dan
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Stillwater Solid Waste Management Sign

Photograph of Stillwater Municipal solid waste management sign.
Date: unknown
Creator: unknown
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Govt Personnel

Photograph of Larry Caldwell, Director Engineering.
Date: unknown
Creator: OSU
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Flooding

Photograph of Flooded hundreds of acres of farmland and homes in the lowland.
Date: October 13, 1959
Creator: Chance, R. J.
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

Erosion Control

Photograph of Perry Howell and son Dwight standing in a field of contour-drilled grain on an Oklahoma School land farm which is under a 5-year cooperative agreement with the Soil Conservation Service. Howell and his son have instituted a complete program of erosion control on the farm where Howell has lived as a tenant for more than 30 years. OK-6470.
Date: May 8, 1938
Creator: Hufnagle, Richard W.
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Farming Equipment and Methods

Photograph of a Bermuda Grass Automatic Sprigger. This is an automatic bermuda grass sprigger operated under the jurisdiction of the Soil Conservation District. Recommendations for planting are made by the Soil Conservation Service. OK-241-7.
Date: April 26, 1956
Creator: Baggett, Beryl
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Farming Equipment and Methods

Photograph of Griffin water and tool truck. OK-584-7.
Date: December 6, 1957
Creator: Brune, Gunner M.
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Trees, Tree Farms, Woodlands, and Forests

Photograph of second year black locust trees planted for post lot. These are in a six-acre plot on this farm. OK-6768.
Date: September 17, 1938
Creator: Hufnagle, Richard W.
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Farming Equipment and Methods

Photograph of native grass planting. This land had been formerly cultivated and is now being planted with native bluestem grasses, using an Ezee-Flow fertilizer spreader as a planter and a rotary hoe cultivator being pulled in reverse. The seeds were harvested and obtained under Soil Conservation District supervision as the farm is under a Soil Conservation program. Mr. Vance shown in the picture. OK-240-8.
Date: April 26, 1956
Creator: Baggett, Beryl
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

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

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

Farming Equipment and Methods

Photograph of structural failure whebey soil was lost in front of a masonry overfall. Channel not level creating excessive velocity in the center. OK-9-502.
Date: unknown
Creator: unknown
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History