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[Photograph 2012.201.B0927.0124]

Description: Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Members of the delegation at a meeting in Tulsa of the Arkansas River Basin Development Association discuss the navigation project at the Fairmont-Mayo Hotel."
Date: March 13, 1970
Creator: Cornelius Photography
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0927.0125]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Giant gates along the spillway at Lock and Dam No. 13 were lowered Saturday when Mayor Allen Toothaker of Van Buren, Ark., Mayor Jack Freeze of Fort Smith, and Jim Alexander, president of the Fort Smith Chamber of Commerce, pushed these buttons."
Date: December 20, 1969
Creator: Albright, Bob
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0927.0139]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Webbers Falls Lock and Dam on the Arkansas River five miles northwest of Webbers Falls in Muskogee County is reported to be 55 percent complete by the Army Corps of Engineers. The lock at the left end of the spillway is complete."
Date: October 18, 1969
Creator: United States. Army. Corps of Engineers.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0927.0134]

Description: Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "The third lock and dam structure on the Arkansas River in Oklahoma after the river leaves Arkansas, the Webbers Falls Lock and Dam is one of the four "high lift" structures on the navigation system. It is being built three miles upriver from the Webbers Falls bridge."
Date: August 29, 1967
Creator: United States. Army. Corps of Engineers.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0927.0115]

Description: Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Bids for the construction of the turning basin at the head of navigation for the Arkansas-Verdigris River system near Catoosa, Okla., were opened August 3, and a contract is scheduled to be awarded later this month."
Date: July 6, 1967
Creator: United States. Army. Corps of Engineers.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0927.0101]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "In operation, 23 years after its authorization, is Lock and Dam No. 13 on the Arkansas River. The opening of river traffic to Fort Smith, Ark., is signaled by he swirl of river waters around the closed gates of the dam. The project is expected to open the way for barge traffic to the Port of Catoosa near Tulsa by this time next year."
Date: December 20, 1969
Creator: Albright, Bob
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0927.0114]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Spillway for Lock and Dam 17 is being constructed inside cofferdam on the Verdigris River, about seven miles north of Muskogee."
Date: December 7, 1967
Creator: United States. Army. Corps of Engineers.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0927.0080]

Description: Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Lock and Dam 14 - This view (looking downstream) shows the coffercells being built so construction of the lock and dam may begin. Lock and Dam 14 is the first lock and dam on the Arkansas River after the river leaves the state of Arkansas. It is being built about 9 miles southwest of Ft. Smith."
Date: August 29, 1967
Creator: Tulsa Dist. Corps of Engineers
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0927.0104]

Description: Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Corps of Engineers Dams in Arkansas have prevented over $34 million worth of flood damages since their construction. Lower right, Bull Shoals has prevented over $10 million in flood damage alone; other dams preventing flood damage are, upper left, Beaver; upper right, Norfork; and lower left, Greers Ferry."
Date: December 4, 1968
Creator: United States. Army. Corps of Engineers.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0927.0098]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Elevated bridge looms above its old bracing on SH 51 near Wagoner in eastern Oklahoma. Engineers on the Arkansas River Navigation Project were faced with the problem of a bridge too low to allow river traffic beneath. The solution: raise the bridge, instead of "razing" it."
Date: April 17, 1970
Creator: Aker, Joe
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0927.0143]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "The first commercial barge to travel the full length of the Arkansas River Navigation System docked at the Port of Catoosa at Tulsa on Jan. 21, 1971. The barge was carrying 650 tons of newsprint."
Date: January 21, 1971
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0927.0099]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Moving the water into the land to bring seaport status to Oklahoma by 1970 is a $1.2 billion Arkansas River navigation project which takes a giant step forward Saturday with one shovel of dirt. Groundbreaking ceremonies for a $1.2 million marine terminal start at 10 a.m. near the Robert S. Kerr Lock and Dam. The artist's drawing shows the terminal, which will be the main coast guard station on the river."
Date: August 11, 1968
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0927.0116]

Description: Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Lock and Dam No. 17 is the first lock and dam on the Verdigris River after the navigation system leaves the Arkansas River. It is being constructed about seven miles north of Muskogee."
Date: August 29, 1967
Creator: United States. Army. Corps of Engineers.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0927.0126]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "View from Lock and Dam No. 18 looks downstream and generally shows project's construction area."
Date: February 13, 1969
Creator: United States. Army. Corps of Engineers.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0927.0105]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Port of Catoosa and Industrial Park as seen in this artist's conception, unveiled Thursday in Tulsa, will cover 2,000 acres at the head of navigation for the 440-mile Arkansas-Verdigris River system. The port is to be ready for barge traffic by June 1970. A visit to the site is on Vice President Hubert Humphrey's agenda next week."
Date: September 27, 1968
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0927.0078]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "McClellan-Kerr Navigation System, Catoosa ... the 2,000-acre port includes the 1,500 acre industrial park and its 25 companies and a dry cargo wharf large enough to handle four barges simultaneously. 900 employees work at the Port of Catoosa."
Date: October 11, 1978
Creator: McLaughlin, Al
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0927.0089]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "The push of a button Saturday at Lock and Dam No. 13 southeast of Fort Smith lowered 100-ton gates into the Arkansas River, linking river navigation facilities between Arkansas and Oklahoma. This will tie Oklahoma trade markets to the oceans of the world."
Date: December 20, 1969
Creator: Albright, Bob
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0927.0136]

Description: Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Lock and Dam No. 18 along Verdigris River, as part of McClellan-Kerr Navigation System project, last major facility under contract as of June, 1967, located southwest of Inola."
Date: July 6, 1967
Creator: United States. Army. Corps of Engineers.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society
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