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[Photograph 2012.201.B0152.0145]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Mammoth discharges of water through the hydro-electric turbines at Broken Bow Dam can raise the river level downstream as much as five feet in 30 minutes."
Date: May 31, 1970
Creator: Orbit
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0254.0164]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "A retired teacher from Idabel, who felt disclosing her age was unnecessary, took first place honors Friday at Oklahoma CowBelles Beef Cook-Off."
Date: June 2, 1978
Creator: Miller, Joe
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0152.0144]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Bill Renfro of DeQueen, Ark., rewinds the huge copper stater that was severely damaged when part of the generator rotor at the Broken Bow Dam power plant broke loose during an experimental high-speed test."
Date: May 31, 1970
Creator: Orbit
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0152.0344]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Surveying the situation a workman trudges along in front of the new $3 million Kiamichi Dam on Little River in McCurtain Country."
Date: August 27, 1970
Creator: Heaton, Dave
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0254.0163]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "One contestant in the National Beef Cook-Off has been cooking for years but created her dish of Hearty Party Beef Tarts just for this contest."
Date: September 14, 1978
Creator: Miller, Joe
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0104.0666]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Sidney Breece, state fire dispatcher, cross plots a fire sighting from two lookout towers and dispatches a ranger crew to the scene."
Date: 1970
Creator: Frey, Phil
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0077.0055]

Description: Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Unless he's watching closely, the motorist traveling SH 3 can easily miss the bumpy, dirt road that turns off 22 miles east of Idabel in McCurtain County and leads to America."
Date: March 15, 1975
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B1385.0207]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "DOUBLE PLAY is scored by Dierks Division of Weyerhaeuser Co. at Wright City in southeastern Oklahoma, where unfinished lumber serves as makeshift flagpole and railroad crossing sign post."
Date: August 27, 1970
Creator: Heaton, Dave
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B1385.0209]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Weyerhaeuser purchased the plant in 1969, expanding it until the approximately 1,000 mill workers now produce nearly 160 million board feet of lumber per year for Oklahoma, Texas and parts of the Midwest, as well as Colorado and New Mexico."
Date: October 23, 1978
Creator: McLaughlin, Al
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B1385.0206]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "The logs are reduced to the finished boards stacked for shipment, as well as plywood and chips for producing paper pulp."
Date: October 23, 1978
Creator: McLaughlin, Al
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B1385.0220]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Weyerhaeuser purchased the plant in 1969, expanding it until the approximately 1,000 mill workers now produce nearly 160 million board feet of lumber per year for Oklahoma, Texas and parts of the Midwest, as well as Colorado and New Mexico."
Date: October 23, 1978
Creator: McLaughlin, Al
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B1398.0058]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "The spillway and island-dotted waters of Broken bow Dam and Reservoir will form the setting for dedication of the $40.3million project at 2 p.m. Saturday eight miles northeast of the McCurtain County town of same name."
Date: June 3, 1970
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B1385.0210]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "If one believed only the visionsof the silver screen, all lumber mills are in th great Northwest run by hardy lumberjacks with Nordic features."
Date: October 23, 1978
Creator: McLaughlin, Al
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B1385.0208]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "The once-proud pines are brought in by truck from the forests, where they are unloaded by huge mechanical stackers whose giant claws pile, straighten and prepare the rough timber for the myriad of saws inside the mill."
Date: October 23, 1978
Creator: McLaughlin, Al
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B1385.0216]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "But amidst the great forests in southeastern Oklahoma is a 375-acre lumber mill run by the Weyerhaeuser Co. known as the Wright City Complex."
Date: October 23, 1978
Creator: McLaughlin, Al
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society
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