[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.6307]

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Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Here is thre way Municipal airport appeared from the airplane Tuesday. Signs of major face-lifting can best be identified by the numbers. No. 1, on the west side of airport, is the $1,458,828 army bombing base which, when completed, will be comprised of 121 buildings. A request for $550,000 for additions to the base is pending in Washington. No. 2 is runway work and No. 3 designates grading and drainage, for which items a total of $766,403 of work projects administration funds have benn appropriated. The black line marked … continued below

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Thomas, Gene March 17, 1941.

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  • Main Title: [Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.6307]
  • Added Title: Progress

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Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Here is thre way Municipal airport appeared from the airplane Tuesday. Signs of major face-lifting can best be identified by the numbers. No. 1, on the west side of airport, is the $1,458,828 army bombing base which, when completed, will be comprised of 121 buildings. A request for $550,000 for additions to the base is pending in Washington. No. 2 is runway work and No. 3 designates grading and drainage, for which items a total of $766,403 of work projects administration funds have benn appropriated. The black line marked No. 2 in the foreground is a temporary runway being constructed to handle traffic while the main north-south runway is being relaid and lengthened. Present concrete runwayscan be identified as the white lines in the picture. Dotted lines showed proposed extensions. When completed there will be a north-south runway 4,460 feet long, and east-west runway 3,800 feet long, a southwest-northeast runway 4,000 feet long, and a northwest-southwest runway 4,155 feet long. No. 4 is the administration building on the east side of the field."

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PublishDate: O-3-19-41

Credit: Daily Oklahoman

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  • "Progress", Daily Oklahoman, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, March 19, 1941

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Oklahoma Publishing Company Photography Collection

The Oklahoma Publishing Company, the parent company of many prominent Oklahoma newspapers, amassed a significant collection of photographs that span more than a century. The wide variety of photographs accompanied stories in the newspapers.

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  • March 17, 1941

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Thomas, Gene. [Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.6307], photograph, March 17, 1941; (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc1702259/: accessed June 4, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.

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