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[2012.201.B0317.0366]

Description: Photograph is of a man wearing a suit and tie, leaned over a table piled with stacks of paper. He is looking down smiling. Caption: "Helping tabulate information on piles of YMCA junior baseball questionnaires"
Date: January 20, 1958
Creator: Gumm, Paul
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[2012.201.B0311.0339]

Description: Photograph is of a group of boys and their coaches near the home plate in team picture formation. Caption: "Won the peewee 1 championship of the Harding area of the YMCA junior baseball program."
Date: August 25, 1958
Creator: Snodgrass, Bob
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Professional Boxer Dick Brown]

Description: A photograph of professional boxer Dick Brown, scheduled to fight on a card promoted by Merle Lindsay at Lindsayland auditorium in the Public Market at Oklahoma City, Oklahoma County, Oklahoma. Caption: "Oklahoma City's first professional boxing program in two years was announced here Saturday by bandmaster Merle Lindsay who will stage the fight card April 1 in his Lindsayland auditorium above the Public Market."
Date: 1958
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[2012.201.B0052.0181]

Description: Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Grim reminder to motorists is this mock crash scene assembled on the center strip of Bethany' s Main street by Boy Scouts of troop No. 70, Bethany. The exhibit went up prior to the Memorial day weekend and will remain another few days, scoutmaster Jerry Talmadge said, Scouts have a national highway safety theme this year." The photograph is of a wrecked car with the driver's side door open to display the dishef… more
Date: June 3, 1958
Creator: Cobb, Richard
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[2012.201.B0414.0099]

Description: Photograph is a baseball team of young men in team photo formation with the coaches standing behind the kneeling and sitting team. Caption: "These Stan Waitie Owls are Peewee 1 champions of their league in the gigantic YMCA junior baseball circuit."
Date: August 27, 1958
Creator: Gumm, John
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[BASEMENT BOX 67.0048]

Description: A daylight photograph showing the aftermath of an explosion involving oil-filled railroad tank cars at Shattuck in Ellis County, Oklahoma. The image shows damaged telephone poles and a destroyed building near the local grain elevator. Caption: "Wreckage was piled high in Shattuck early Tuesday morning after six oil-filled tank cars exploded."
Date: March 4, 1958
Creator: Lucas, Jim
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

BASEMENT BOX 67.0306

Description: Photograph taken during daylight of smoke billowing from a building with a fire truck nearby. Caption: "Officials of the First Methodist Church, destroyed by a $250,000 fire Monday, will meet Tuesday to determine a temporary meeting place for the congregation and for plans for future building."
Date: December 9, 1958
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[BASEMENT BOX 67.0058]

Description: A daylight photograph of a railroad tank car wrapped in debris caused by the derailment and explosion of oil-filled tank cars at Shattuck in Ellis County, Oklahoma. No caption.
Date: March 4, 1958
Creator: Lucas, Jim
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0051.0558]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Oklahoma City Times newspaper. Caption: "Blazing Fragments of one wing remain to mark the scene of Tinker air force base pilot Bernard J. Bogoslofski's second brush with death in one month."
Date: March 25, 1958
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[BASEMENT BOX 67.0047]

Description: A daylight photograph showing the burning wreckage of oil-filled tank cars after a railroad derailment and explosion at Shattuck, Ellis County, Oklahoma. Caption: "Wreckage was piled high in Shattuck early Tuesday morning after six oil-filled tank cars exploded."
Date: March 4, 1958
Creator: Lucas, Jim
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

Crop-Rotated Field of Grain Sorghum

Description: Photograph of an UNIDENTIFIED man standing in a crop-rotated field of grain sorghum. The back of the photograph proclaims, “Grain sorghum in a crop rotation program. Yield is expected to reach 80 to 90 bushels per year. Irrigated two times in summer of 1958. Sorghum to followed with alfalfa – 1959 & 1960.”
Date: September 10, 1958
Creator: Elder, A. T.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Land Protected by Levee

Description: Photograph of land protection via levee ½ miles east of Binger and looking south from a highway bridge on highway 152 on Curtis Opitz’s land. The back of the photograph proclaims, “Looking south from highway bridge on highway 152 east of Binger, Oklahoma [sic]. The field on the right is protected by a levee. This field was of little use due to overflows before the levee was constructed.”
Date: March 20, 1958
Creator: McConnell, John
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Retired Cultivated Field

Description: Photograph of the proper land use of a retired cultivated field. The back of the photograph proclaims, “Planting of bluestem grass on a retired cultivated field. Old terraces are still noticeable in the field. This land is highly erodible and should be farmed with protective measures.”
Date: March 20, 1958
Creator: McConnell, John
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Sugar Creek Sedimentation Damage

Description: Photograph of sediment damage that has caused land to go from cultivable to willows along Sugar Creek and highway 281. The back of the photograph proclaims, “Looking east from bridge on highway 281 showing sediment damage that has caused land along Sugar Creek to go from cultivation to willows.”
Date: March 20, 1958
Creator: McConnell, John
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Sugar Creek Main Channel

Description: Photograph of the main channel of Sugar Creek south of Gracemont. The back of the photograph proclaims, “Main channel of Sugar Creek which crosses Highway 281, south of Gracemont, Oklahoma. This land was Class I and is now useless because it is covered with silt, Bermudagrass and willows. It needs protection from floodwaters to be made to produce at its maximum.”
Date: March 20, 1958
Creator: McConnell, John
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Trees, Tree Farms, Woodlands, and Forests

Description: Photograph of a forestry tree farm. First member tree farm. This farm is registered with the American Tree Farm System. It consists of 30 acres of pine trees released by girding undesireable hardwoods in 1953. A selective cut was made in 1957. Excellent natural reproduction is evident froma good seed crop in 1957. OK-629-5.
Date: July 22, 1958
Creator: McConnell, John
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society
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