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[Photograph 2012.201.B0320.0555]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Government Axes Carve a Tree- Slashing axes of the government's rural electrification administration resounded above the cemetery beneath this short leaf pine tree in northwestern Arkansas to carve a huge hole in the foliage for its electric transmission line."
Date: February 20, 1942
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0320.0547]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "A brand new line truck, equipped with materials for performing a variety of service duties for member, is just one of the 30 rolling units operated by Cotton Electric. Tommy Parrack is set for a day in the field in this picture."
Date: November 1, 1957
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0320.0549]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Rural residents of a seven county sector in southwestern Oklahoma are joining the celebration of Oklahoma's golden anniversary this year, but they are also especially proud of the growth of a movement that had it's beginning only 19 years ago."
Date: November 1, 1957
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0320.0546]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "A LIGHT SWITCH, almost, is this view of the Franklin switchyard, five miles southeast of Moore where 69,000 volts can be turned on and off in the transmission line between Western Farmers Anadarko and an Oklahoma Cooperative sub-station east of Elm Creek Reservoir"
Date: October 2, 1962
Creator: Garner, Frank
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0320.0550]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "There's quite a difference between maintaining electric service to a handful of home in 1938 and keeping service flowing today. Lois Brown is shown wheeling a transformer in for conditioning."
Date: November 1, 1957
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0320.0551]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "DUPLICATE LINES TAKE WAR COPPER- Duplication of electric transmission lines which take copper - one of war's vital metals -is no bar to the government's rural electrification program."
Date: February 20, 1942
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0320.0554]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Sign of the Times- U. S. Foots the Bill - This "sign of the times is planted at the REA project near Beggs, and states that REA's new transmission line is financed by a loan from the Federal government's storehouse of tax money."
Date: February 20, 1942
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0320.0548]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Figuring power bills for more than 7,800 electrical consumers proves no small task, Mrs. Juanita Dudley is pictured at work with computing charts, billing machines and stacks of ledgers to meet the first of the month deadline."
Date: November 1, 1957
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society
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