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[Photograph 2012.201.B0224.0225]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "China will not be entirely helpless if Japan cuts the Burma road. This new road straight west from Chunking to the Asian section of India, begun a year ago as an emergency measure, is about one third complete. The terrain is rough, but so was the Burma road. Top is a view of the completed portion."
Date: February 20, 1942
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[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
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Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0252.0111]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Approval of the city's defense training school by Washington Thursday cheered the hearts of a lot of persons but mine more than the three men pictured above going over their plans for remodeling the school building at 914-918 North Broadway."
Date: February 20, 1942
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0240.0475]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "When Mrs. Lou Cordell, mother of 11, was designated by the navy to christen the U. S. S. Choctaw, she brought a jug of well water from her farm in Durham, Okla., to Charleston, S. C."
Date: October 20, 1942
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
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
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
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
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0398.0123]

Description: Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Second Lieut. John Miskovsky, 28, chosen to attend Battery Officers Course No. 53 of the Field Artillery School at Fort Sill. Before starting on active duty, he was Director of Athletics, football and baseball coach, and teacher of commerce at Capitol Hill Senior High School."
Date: May 20, 1942
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society
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