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

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

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

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

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

Contour Farming

Photograph of contour furrows showing moisture held in the furrows. OK-7015.
Date: January 20, 1939
Creator: Adaire, Ida
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

US Government Land; Squatter families

Photograph of transient squatters moving in, cutting timber and moving on. In 1938, 400 families of this type moved into McCurtain County. OK-8028.
Date: December 11, 1939
Creator: unknown
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Water Conservation; Water Erosion; Flooding and Prevention

Photograph of severe overgrazing on the left adding to flood damage on an overflow plain. Two miles south of Strong City, Oklahoma. OK-7082.
Date: February 5, 1939
Creator: unknown
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Trees, Tree Farms, Woodlands, and Forests

Photograph of a fence and field border used for wildlife cover. Sassafras rhus ambrosia, ulmus and chenopodium after winter grazing by livestock. Note the sparse growth of low growing grasses. OK-6990-B.
Date: March 19, 1939
Creator: unknown
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Contour Farming

Photograph of farm planning. Engineers check an old terrace channel to see if it is run properly. LA-D3-3.
Date: May 29, 1939
Creator: unknown
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

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

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

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

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

Arbuckle Mountains Topography

Photograph of a general view of the topography and vegetation in the Arbuckle Mountains.
Date: February 3, 1939
Creator: unknown
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Rapid Bank Cutting

Photograph of the current being held against the bank by sand deposits, causing rapid bank cutting.
Date: February 4, 1939
Creator: unknown
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Broad Sandy Bank of the Washita (2)

Photograph of a view of a broad sandy bed of the Washita River, 5 miles south of Strong City, Okla.
Date: February 4, 1939
Creator: unknown
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Wind Erosioin on Cultivated Sand

Photograph of wind erosiion on cultivated sand at headwaters of Broken Leg Creek.
Date: February 5, 1939
Creator: unknown
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History