Photograph of vegetation of Site 22, Rush Creek. Tractor on left holding grass planter in place by cable. This structure was vegetated in two days.

Photograph of planting vegetation on Site 22-Rush Creek. Tractor on left holding grass planter in place by cable. This structure was vegetated in two days.

Photograph of a native meadow. Big and little bluestem appear with beaked panicum. Soil is Baxter silt loam, 1 to 3%. OK-1426-10.

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "First Joint In Atoka-Oklahoma City Pipline goes into the ground at the South Canadian River near Konawa. R. Lewis Barton, chairman of the $65 million trust handling construction breaks the paper plug in the first joint during Wednesday's ceremonies. About 200 citizens from communities between Oklahoma City and Atoka toured the project and visited the Lock Joint Pipe Co. plant at Ada where the 20-foot section are made. the pipeline will bring water 100 miles from Lake Atoka. Completion is scheduled early in 1964."

Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma City Times newspaper. Caption: "Size was the order of the day as Oklahoma City civic leaders saw Atoka water project under construction. At left is the huge ditch in which a 48-inch cast iron line is being laid to carry treated water from the Elm Creek Reservoir into the southside of the Oklahoma City distribution system. Desite its size, this pipe was the smallest seen by 125 city people on their inspection tour of the Atoka project Wednesday. Above are three of the four buses rolling down the dusty road which eventually will be under 90 feet of water. this is the caravan crossing the floor what will be the Elm Creek Terminal Reservoir, which will hold as much stored water as Lakes Overholse and Hefner combined when finished."

Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma City Times newspaper. Caption: "Getting a new face-lifting is Lincoln Park Golf course, where everyone is working full speed in an effort to complete the operation in time for the Oklahoma City open early in June. The figure (1) in the center of the picture shows the location of the new clubhouse, while other features are (2) a new green being built in the center of the present sixt fairway on the south course; (3) No. 7 green on the north course, and (4) No. 16 green on the north course. the dark streaks running along and across the fairways show where pipe has been installed for the new fairway watering system."

Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma City Times newspaper. Caption: "Tulakes Airport holds the key to future success in Oklahoma City's bustling, booming, multi-million doall general aviation business. More than 200 private and executive planes take off or land at the airport each day, and new equipment to be installed at the field should send the figure flying upward. Tulakes represents a $3,900,000 investment and, according to Gen. Maurice Marrs, airport supervisor, is on a par with the best of the country's airports built to serve private aviators. This modern airport is the heart of local general aviation activities which includes all aviation not in the military, government, or scheduled carrier catagories...It is an integral part of the local economy contributing approximately 2,400 jobs and an annual payroll approaching $12,000,000. Sales and service bills to Oklahoma Cityans purchasing and maintaining aircraft total about $5,000,000 each year. There are more than 400 private planes based at the five main civilian air terminals in Oklahoma City. These terminals handle more than 150,000 take-offs and landings each year....Most of the remaining flight activity is handled by Downtown Airpark, Expressway Junction Airport and South Shields Airport. William O. Coleman, Oklahoma City airport …

Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma City Times newspaper. Caption: "Down comes building to make way for the new capitol office structures. This one is Sussy's on NE 23 where the murals, on left wall, were a familiar sight to diners for years. Gleaming white building in back is one of the two new structures."

Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma City Times newspaper. Caption: "Increasing Development around Baptist Memorial Hospital - once all alone far out on Northwest Highway - is shown in this aerial photo by Jim Lucas, Tines Photographer. Immediately behind the 188-bed hospital is its service building. Beyond that is a four-story doctors building. The Baptist Laymen's Corp. is erecting it but will lease office space to individual physicians. To the right of the hospital is the new Highland Hills Baptist Church."

Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma City Times newspaper. Caption: "Our main problem is discouraging quail hunters. We sold people on this idea because there are a lot of quail in the area. Now they want to shoot up our namesake!" Jack Johnston is hardly upset, however, as he never misses an opportunity to talk about his favorite subject, Qual Creek. Just a little more than a year ago Quail Creek was only rumored housing development and the site, (bounded by NW 122 , Memorial Rd., May and Portland) was merely a pasture. Several paved streets are now open. Utlities are all underground. Four small lakes dot the area. Two houses in the first building phase are going up. And the Quail Creek Gold and Country Club is racing toward a completion date in late fall. "They'll be knocking golf balls on the golf course by July, and club members will be taking a dip in the pool by June," is the prediction of Boston Smith, club president. The club has 460 members with 600 as the limit. there are 40,000 square feet in the contemporary structure of stone and glass. Architects Howard, Samis and Davies designed the …

Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma City Times newspaper. Caption: "Take a cold, gray-tinted color, but a perfect blend morning. Add a photographer with an eye for beauty. Put him in Lincoln Park near the still, frigid pond, mirroring a grayness of sky and hill. Into is vision swim three geese, their reflections creating an illusion of six ghostly white creatures gliding across a grayish-white emptiness, their stark black shadows, standing out like blots of ink. Cliff King, the Times photographer, waits until they silently paddle past within "shooting" range. Snap! Nature's beauty has been captured on photographic film with a result of a charming black and white print, simple in its lack of color, but perfect blend of nature, a photographer's skill and a science that enables him to record the moment."

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Firefighting techniques of city firemen are photographed by Binichi Doi of Japan."

Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma City Times newspaper. Caption: "Thousands of cars ring the capitol like strings of pearls in this aerial shot of the capitol area. Even with three huge parking lots, capitol workers must park blocks away from their offices. In the lower part of the picture, foundations slowly rise for the two new capitol office buildings. Artistry indicates come-ro-be-applied no parking zones on E and W Capitol Aves. immediately south of state capitol building on NE 23. Circle medians at the intersections of both avenues will be pointed, as indicated in the photo. An additional $15,000 is being poured into street improvements on the state capitol grounds...Called "channelization" by officals, the traffic improvement program began in mid-summer when Irvin Hurst, executive secretary for the commission, called a conference with state city traffic engineers and other officials."

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Newcastle bridge groundbreaking is set for noon Wednesday on the banks of the South Canadian River. Two, 2-lane bridges will be constructed 200 feet east of the present structure. The new route, designed by dotted line, will serve as a vital link in the proposed southwestern turnpike connecting road system. The bridge crosses the South Canadian River on U. S. 62 and U. S. 2777 at the McClain-Cleveland County line. Oklahoma City Chamber of Commerce will sponsor the ceremonies. Federal, state, county and city officials will participate."

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "The first joint of 60-inch concrete pipe in the Atoka pipeline was laid Wednesday in ceremonies attended by 200 civic leaders from Oklahoma City and other communities along the route. The yellow-painted concrete cylinder was lowered into an excavation at the north end of the South Canadian river crossing near Konawa to climax an all-day bus tour of the constuction project. About 125 Oklahoma City citizens aboard four buses first visited the Elm Creek Reservoir construction site south of Tinker Field. Then, in Ada they toured the Lock Joint Pipe Co. plant where production of pipe has been stepped up to 48 joints a day. When in fuull operation output will be 78 joints a day. (photo tag: Pipe is in place at South Canadian crossing near Konawa for a pleasing preview. Civic leaders attending Atoka project ceremonies Wednesday found the work ahead of schedule. Pipe began moving two weeks ago.)"

Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "(aerial photo of Moore and its surrounding area, mainly housing seen, some buildings easy to see, main roads, and more.)"

Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma City Times newspaper. Caption: "This aerial photograpgh shows the Classen Circle and Northwest Highway area. The dotted line shows part of the proposed route of a lakeview drive for which plans are now being made."

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "His physical exam over, David Lee meets mother. Dr. Shelton makes the introduction."

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "No Let-Up is seen in Oklahoma City's luxury apartment boom. Shown in the aerial view are the Crestpark Apartments at NW 42 and Portland, now in the early stages of construction. When completed, the $1,400,000 multi-familty dwelling will have a total of 114 units, complete with dishwashers, wall-to-wall carpeting, electric kitchens and community swimming pool. it is owned by University Investment Corp."

Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma City Times newspaper. Caption: "(photo of four buses going down the grounds away from the camera)"

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "This Is The Tinker Diagonal that one day will put Tinker Air Force Base within a zip of downtown Oklahoma City, and - I.H. 50 - will bring Shawnee and other-points to the east and southeast nearer. Paving on the diagonal is about 90 percent completed, and surfacing will start soon on the 1,000-foot unfinished section approaching SE 29. Eventually, the four-lane diagonal will pass under SE 29 and will run parallel to it eastward past the air force base and then turn southeast (upper center). Grading, drainage and bridge construction are nearly finished on the section east of Tinker to the Pottawatomie County line."

An aerial photograph of the West Texas Rehabilitation Center for Crippled Children in Abilene, Texas (now the West Texas Rehabilitation Center), taken in 1959 by Abilene photographer Lloyd Jones.

Photograph of the Municipal Auditorium in Oklahoma City, OK.

Photograph of the Municipal Auditorium in Oklahoma City, OK.