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[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
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
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
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0927.0087]

Description: Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Upstream lock gate on Arkansas River navigation system, Lock and Dam No. 13 near Barling, southeast of Ft. Smith, Ark."
Date: December 20, 1969
Creator: Albright, Bob
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Basement Box 51.0114]

Description: Caption: "Charred Timbers frame open space where roof of Lee's Lounge, 3004 N Paseo, collapsed Friday during early morning fire." Men inspect charred remains of building.
Date: December 20, 1969
Creator: Tapscott, George
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B1292.0866]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "GOING, GOING.. . OOPS was the rule Saturday as Oklahoma City Christmas shoppers took to streets and shopping centers only to find, in caases such as this on Northwest Expressway, that for every car going someplace, two were already there."
Date: December 20, 1969
Creator: Taylor, Robert
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0404.0432]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "First aid for Christmas presents was rendered Saturday by Oklahoma City mailman Verlin Melton, 719 S Timberlane, Midwest City, who made his appointed rounds in a military ambulance, one of 120 vehicles loaned to the post office by the Army Reserve, National Guard, Air Force and other area governmental agencies."
Date: December 20, 1969
Creator: Taylor, Robert
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0913.0251]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Two teen-age brothers, Keith and Brad Moore, decided to buy a pair of horses with money they had been saving for two years, but after eight months of training and care for the animals , Brad discovered that his horse was missing from the pasture in the vicinity of Northwest Expressway and MacArthur where he was kept."
Date: December 20, 1969
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society
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