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[Photograph 2012.201.B0245.1050]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Glen Ham, 33-year-old Pauls Valley lawyer, has been chosen captain of the Murray team on the floor of the state house of representatives in the 1953 session."
Date: 1950
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

Woodland Watershed Detention Reservoir-Site 6

Description: Photograph of Site 6 Detention Reservoir, Woodland Watershed. Permanent Pool-0. 78" runoff. Flood pool-4. 75" runoff. Total-5. 53" runoff. Drainage area-1350 acres. The permanent pool surface area is 13. 2 acres. It will cover 37. 6 acres when it reaches the emergency spillway at left.
Date: 1950~
Creator: Terbush, L. S.
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Washita River Wildhorse Creek

Description: Photograph of reservoir that lacks 4 ft. of reaching its maximum capacity but surrounding areas not treated created a disastrious flood (May 9-10) on Wildhorse Creek. US Highway No. 7 in background. Spillway at right end of dam.
Date: 1950~
Creator: Ginter Photo Co.
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Damaged Rush Creek & US Highway 77 Bridge and Flooded Pauls Valley

Description: Photograph of an aerial shot of Rush Creek & US Highway 77 Bridge damaged by floodwaters. The nearby city, Pauls Valley, was also flooded. The back of the photograph proclaims, “Bridge (on river) on reenforced [sic] concrete piles was overtopped by flood water. Several of the piling failed by shifting downstream.”
Date: May 18, 1950
Creator: Ginter Photo Co.
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society
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