[Photograph 2012.201.B0292.0289]

Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company.
Date: August 28, 1934
Creator: unknown
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B0152.0041]

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Dams - Grand River Vinita, Okla. -- Sweeping view of the excavation work for the Grand river dam, looking east from the bluff on the west back of the river."
Date: 1938
Creator: unknown
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B0152.0028]

Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Almost tiny by comparison with the buttresses they form, the individual units into which concrete is poured on the Grand River dam are 20 feet by 16 feet, made of steel."
Date: July 6, 1939
Creator: Grand River Dam Authority
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B0152.0043]

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Dams - Grand River"
Date: 1939
Creator: unknown
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B0152.0042]

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Dams - Grand River"
Date: February 21, 1939
Creator: Rucker, Tom
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B0152.0021]

Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Buttresses are beginning to rise on the Grand river dam. When completed, they will tower an average of 150feet above bedrock."
Date: July 6, 1939
Creator: Grand River Dam Authority
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B0341.0323]

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Ketchum Oklahoma main street"
Date: 1935
Creator: unknown
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B0341.0324]

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "This is a normal week day street scene in Ketchum, a beehive of activity."
Date: February 9, 1938
Creator: Shroder, William J., Jr.
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B0500.0068]

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "This is what the attorney general gave me," said Francis Goodpaster, Vinita, Craig county representative, as he sat on the steps of the University of Oklahoma barracks watching recruits for the highway patrol who will mount motorcycles Friday."
Date: June 10, 1937
Creator: Kaho, C. J.
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B0266.0308]

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper.
Date: 1933
Creator: unknown
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B0266.0307]

Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company.
Date: November 4, 1937
Creator: unknown
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B0152.0047]

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Close-up shot of the sides of the coffer dam at the west end of the excavation. The trench is about 50 feet deep and 225 feet wide ant this point."
Date: 1938
Creator: unknown
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B0152.0018]

Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Giant draft tubes will send water back into the Grand river after it goes through 20,000 horsepower turbines at the $20,000,000 Grand River dam in northeastern Oklahoma."
Date: July 11, 1939
Creator: unknown
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B0152.0039]

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Dams - Grand River - Oklahoma"
Date: 1935
Creator: unknown
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B0152.0019]

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Above is the spillway section alone enough concrete is in place to build a replica of the Spavinaw dam -- now northeast Oklahoma's larges."
Date: 1939
Creator: unknown
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B0152.0025]

Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Grand River dams"
Date: August 18, 1939
Creator: unknown
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B0152.0048]

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "View of the Grand River looking up stream from the west bank of the dam. Note; the high banks of the river. A section of the - coffer dam is shown in the lower right corner of the picture. The hydroelectric power plant will be located beside this bluff."
Date: 1938
Creator: unknown
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B0152.0029]

Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "This view shows progress in the construction work on the $20,000,000 Grand River dam in Northeastern Oklahoma, scheduled to be completed in early 1940"
Date: 1939
Creator: unknown
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B0152.0036]

Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Excavation is proceeding rapidly on the power house sector, enclosed by a 40-foot high steel cofferdam. The Grand River power house will contain four 20,000 hp turbines, which will turn four 16,000 kva generators."
Date: July 6, 1939
Creator: Grand River Dam Authority
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B0266.0300]

Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper.
Date: 1930
Creator: unknown
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B0266.0309]

Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company.
Date: November 4, 1937
Creator: unknown
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B0292.0294]

Photograph taken for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper.
Date: August 27, 1934
Creator: unknown
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B0402.0235]

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "JUST WAITING - The family of Farmer Josh Lee, 42-year-old Craig county farmer, sat on his front porch near Vinita Thursday night, waiting philosophically for returns in the race for president of the state board of agriculture."
Date: 1938
Creator: unknown
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Water Conservation; Water Erosion; Flooding and Prevention

Photograph of a large Bermuda-grassed terrace outlet system which will carry water from 30 acres. Grass spot sodded in June 1937 and water kept out until the Fall. OK-6001.
Date: November 15, 1937
Creator: Slack, Jim
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History