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[Photograph 2012.201.B0152.0407]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Towering above the pin-sized man in a rowboat (foreground) is the sub-structure that will carry the rails of the Frisco railroad across the Washita arm of the Red River reservoir when the huge dam is finished in 1944."
Date: July 23, 1942
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0349.0507]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "This structure once was intended to be a 26-room hotel, complete with dining room, lobby and other faculties and topped by an apartment."
Date: July 15, 1949
Creator: McLaughlin, Al
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

Oklahoma-Texas Bridge War

Description: Photograph of 'They Shall Not Pass' says W. W. Sterling, Adjutant General of Texas, in white trousers and holding a Winchester rifle 30-30. While on his left is Texas Ranger Captain Tom Hickman. They are keeping watch on the Denison-Durant free bridge over the Red River, to see that no Oklahoma motorist runs through the barricade. On Sterling's right are two more Texas rangers, L to R: J. P. Huddleston and W. H. Kirby. So far no blood at the bridge on the Texas side." July 20, 1931. - Photo cre… more
Date: July 20, 1931
Creator: International Chicago
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B1119.0205]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Old 697 as it sits on the spur track at the conway Oil Co. in Denison. Headed for Oklahoma, but going no place, the engine whips up a barrel of steam as it subs for a busted boiler."
Date: July 11, 1954
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society
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