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Aggregate Stock Pile

Description: Depicts the aggregate stock pile area for the Altus project. Caption says, "A-787 View of aggregate stock pile area. Note Euclid bottom dump truck unloading 3" - 6" size of aggregate from crushing and screening plant and small dump truck unloading #4 - 3/4" size aggregate from sand plant."
Date: November 25, 1942
Creator: Breitenstein, Frank C.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Museum of the Western Prairie

Blasted Rock

Description: Blasted rock for the Altus highway and railroad relocation project. Caption says, "A-735 Blasted rock at west end of road cut, Santa Fe Railroad relocation from Station 57."
Date: July 31, 1942
Creator: Breitenstein, Frank C.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Museum of the Western Prairie

Bottom of Rock Cut

Description: View of bottom of rock cut on the Altus highway and railroad relocation project. Caption says, "A-684 East along bottom of rock cut showing north side of rock cut, Station 59, Santa Fe Railroad relocation."
Date: April 28, 1942
Creator: Breitenstein, Frank C.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Museum of the Western Prairie

Building of Rock Crushing Plant

Description: Laborers working on wooden structure, the rock crushing plant, for the Altus highway and railroad relocation project. Caption says, "A-747 Progress on erection of crushing plant. Storage bunkers in foreground will be fed by conveyor belts."
Date: August 31, 1942
Creator: Breitenstein, Frank C.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Museum of the Western Prairie

Bulldozer moving Dirt

Description: Bulldozer moving dirt for the Altus highway and railroad relocation project. Caption says, "A-561 Bulldozer sloping south slope of Highway No. 9 relocation fill, vicinity of Station No. 576."
Date: January 30, 1942
Creator: Breitenstein, Frank C.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Museum of the Western Prairie

Bulldozer moving Dirt

Description: Bulldozer moving dirt down a slope for the Altus highway and railroad relocation project. Caption says, "A-562 Bulldozer sloping south side of Highway No. 9 relocation fill, vicinity of Station No. 578."
Date: January 30, 1942
Creator: Breitenstein, Frank C.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Museum of the Western Prairie

Bulldozer moving Dirt

Description: Bulldozer moving dirt uphill for the Altus highway and railroad relocation project. Caption says, "A-566 Bulldozer sloping south edge of fill on Highway No. 9 relocation, vicinity of Staation No. 586."
Date: January 31, 1942
Creator: Breitenstein, Frank C.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Museum of the Western Prairie

Canal Crossing Under Construction

Description: Caption says, "A-725 A view of the completed barrel of the Main Canal Crossing under the A.T. & S.F. Railroad relocation. Forms are being set preparatory to shaping the banks for the transition walls."
Date: July 1, 1942
Creator: Breitenstein, Frank C.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Museum of the Western Prairie

Carryall Equipment near Water

Description: View of construction equipment moving dirt near water for the Altus highway and railroad relocation project. Caption says, "A-549 Carryall sloping shoofly on Rock Island Railroad vicinity Station No. 4513. Photograph was taken from Highway No. 9 bridge."
Date: January 23, 1942
Creator: Breitenstein, Frank C.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Museum of the Western Prairie

Carryall Equipment on Road

Description: Carryall equipment working on the Altus highway and railroad relocation project. Caption says, "A-646 Carryall spreading embankment for Santa Fe Railroad relocation, vicinity of Station 7."
Date: March 26, 1942
Creator: Breitenstein, Frank C.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Museum of the Western Prairie

Cement mixer

Description: Cement mixer with laborer operating it. Caption says, "A-733 Interior of mixing plant showing mixer and hopper layout."
Date: October 30, 1942
Creator: Breitenstein, Frank C.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Museum of the Western Prairie

Close up of Tire Repair

Description: Close of a tire being repaired for the Altus highway and railroad relocation project. Caption says, "A-660 Tire Repair. A view of the boot after being bolted in place and ready for the tube. Note the smooth appearance of the bolt heads on the inside of the tire. Thus far there has been no trouble resulting from contact of the tube with these bolt heads."
Date: March 28, 1942
Creator: Breitenstein, Frank C.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Museum of the Western Prairie

Close up of Tire Repair

Description: Close up of a tire being repaired for the Altus highway and railroad relocation project. Caption says, "A-658 Tire Repair. Typical break in truck tire used in rock excavation."
Date: March 28, 1942
Creator: Breitenstein, Frank C.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Museum of the Western Prairie

Close up of Tire Repair

Description: Two laborers work on repairing a tire for the Altus highway and railroad relocation project. Caption says, "A-659 Tire Repair. Stripping old rubber from the carcass to be used for boots. The knife being used was made from an old file and ground to a razor edge. The squirt can contains water which is necessary as a lubricant in cutting the rubber."
Date: March 28, 1942
Creator: Breitenstein, Frank C.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Museum of the Western Prairie

Close up view of where Highway 9 has Moved to

Description: View of section between Highway 9 and railroad bridge, possibly the North Fork of the Red River. Bridges completed for the Altus highway and railroad relocation project. Caption says, "A-586 Closeup view of relocation area between Highway 9 bridge and Rock Island Railroad bridge, from Station 604 on Highway 9."
Date: February 12, 1942
Creator: Breitenstein, Frank C.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Location: 34.972647 -99.335343
Partner: Museum of the Western Prairie

Closeup of Sand Plant Layout

Description: Close up view of the sand plant for the Altus Project. Caption says, "A-782 Close-up view of sand plant. A portion of the processed sand stockpile is visible in the foreground."
Date: November 25, 1942
Creator: Breitenstein, Frank C.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Museum of the Western Prairie

Cofferdam

Description: Cofferdam during the Altus Dam project. Caption says, "A-790 View of the natural sump at the toe of the cofferdam."
Date: November 26, 1942
Creator: Breitenstein, Frank C.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Museum of the Western Prairie

Completed Dam with Crane

Description: Uncompleted dam with a crane in the left foreground. Caption says, "A-753 Removing reinforced concrete slab and buttresses from downstream face of present Altus Dam. Crane swings 3,000 lb. granite rock into buttress with excellent results. Concrete was placed in 1926."
Date: September 30, 1942
Creator: Breitenstein, Frank C.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Museum of the Western Prairie

Completed mixing plants

Description: Wooden buildings which make up the completed mixing and batching cement plants for the Altus Dam project. Caption says, "A-793 View of completed mixing and batching plants. Two steel bins at left are for aggregates and bin on right for pumicite. The 135 ft. conveyor connecting the batching and mixing plant has been covered to protect the cement and pumicite both of which will be batched on the belt at the batching plant. A portion of the aggregate stockpiles is shown in the foreground."
Date: December 23, 1942
Creator: Breitenstein, Frank C.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Museum of the Western Prairie
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