When work was begun by the Soil Erosion Service (United States Department of the Interior) in 1933 and continued by the Soil Conservation Service (United States Department of Agriculture) after 1935 there was little basic research information available regarding the action of water on land. One of the first activities of this nature was the Hydrologic Laboratory established on the South Tyger River Project near Tigerville in Greenville County, South Carolina. The data from this project was used throughout the southeast and elsewhere in the design of water disposal areas for many farms. The laboratory was under the direction of W.O. Ree and later was transferred to Oklahoma.

The collection (1937-2001) contains six sets of album pages displaying photographs of tests conducted at various sites. Many of the photographs in this album are of the work done in the field laboratory in 1937. Others are of research and nursery activities on demonstration projects and experiment stations in North Carolina, Virginia, and Georgia. Also included is a news clipping (2001) detailing the life and work of scientist Stan Weinberg and a typed summary of the albums. The bulk of the collection is from the 1930s.

The Department of Special Collections received this album from the Soil and Water Conservation Society of America located in Ankeny, Iowa. The scrapbooks came as part of the Hugh Hammond Bennett Papers (MS 164), a collection that had suffered water damage and subsequent mold development. Some evidence of this is still visible in the album and a few photographs are badly damaged.