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Dredging and Sediment Removal from Lakes, Rivers, Harbors and Other Bodies of Water

Description: Photograph of a suction dredge in the background that is clearing channel to permit ships to dock. The sand spewing out the end of the pipeline represents soil from the Mississippi watershed farms. At this spot dredging will go on for 12 days from a 100-foot line to deep water. Dredging 500 to 550 cubic yards an hour continuously. 500 cubic yards is equal to a farm of 178.5 acres with topsoil 6 inches deep for the 12-day dredging period. Sediment here is 9 feet deep. The water must be kept at a… more
Date: July 28, 1953
Creator: Fox, Lester
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0052.0997]

Description: Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "BARGES KNOCK OUT PONTCHARTRAIN BRIDGE; 3 DIE, A Louisiana State trooper looks over a collapsed section of the Lake Pontchartrain Causeway."
Date: September 1, 1974
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0091.0469]

Description: Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "The Rev. John Bisagno, left, confers with the Rev. Lee Roy Till, pastor of First Baptist Church of Dallas, Tex., before Bisagno preaches at Friday night's service at the Southern Baptist Convention in New Orleans."
Date: November 26, 1969
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0114.0137]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Oklahoma Cityans in New Orleans Saturday to see the Sugar bowl game between Oklahoma 's Sooners and North Carolina's Tar Heels.."
Date: January 1, 1949
Creator: Johnson, Bill
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0150.0560]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "NOW THIS IS THE WAY we do it, said Alan P. Russell of the Alton Ochnser Medical Research Foundation in New Orleans during a meeting Friday of the Association for Independent Research Institutions at the Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation."
Date: November 20, 1964
Creator: Brown, Don
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0223.0455]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Docking in New Orleans Monday were (lower photo, left to right) Mrs. S. N. Goldman, 6900 NW Grand Boulevard ; Mrs. Richard L. Barth, 442 NW 18; Mr. Barth and Mr. Goldman."
Date: 1958
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0226.0214]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Papa " Celestin and his Trumpet lead Tuxedo Dixieland Jazz band in "Tiger Rag " at the Absinthe house. The New Orleans sequence tracing the birth of jazz is a highlight from Louis de Rochemont's "Cinema Holiday."
Date: December 23, 1956
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society
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