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[Photograph 2012.201.B0927.0124]

Description: Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Members of the delegation at a meeting in Tulsa of the Arkansas River Basin Development Association discuss the navigation project at the Fairmont-Mayo Hotel."
Date: March 13, 1970
Creator: Cornelius Photography
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0927.0139]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Webbers Falls Lock and Dam on the Arkansas River five miles northwest of Webbers Falls in Muskogee County is reported to be 55 percent complete by the Army Corps of Engineers. The lock at the left end of the spillway is complete."
Date: October 18, 1969
Creator: United States. Army. Corps of Engineers.
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0927.0134]

Description: Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "The third lock and dam structure on the Arkansas River in Oklahoma after the river leaves Arkansas, the Webbers Falls Lock and Dam is one of the four "high lift" structures on the navigation system. It is being built three miles upriver from the Webbers Falls bridge."
Date: August 29, 1967
Creator: United States. Army. Corps of Engineers.
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0927.0170]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "A tug and barge filled with guest of the U. S. Army Corps of Engineers approaches the Newt Graham Lock and Dam recently, about halfway between Catoosa and Muskogee on the McClellan-Kerr Navigation System in eastern Oklahoma."
Date: August 9, 1990
Creator: McDaniel, David
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0927.0115]

Description: Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Bids for the construction of the turning basin at the head of navigation for the Arkansas-Verdigris River system near Catoosa, Okla., were opened August 3, and a contract is scheduled to be awarded later this month."
Date: July 6, 1967
Creator: United States. Army. Corps of Engineers.
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0927.0160]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "OPEN HOUSE at Newt Graham Lock and Dam on the Arkansas-Verdigris River Navigation System drew scores of visitors to the Inola area near Tulsa Friday where at one point spectators, watched a Coast Guard patrol vessel transit the locks."
Date: June 5, 1971
Creator: Taylor, Robert
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0927.0177]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Tony Byars, left, Don Gibbs and Don Gibbs and Bob Mueller share much of their lives together as the crew on the Monnie Speakes."
Date: January 23, 1986
Creator: Argo, Jim
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0927.0114]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Spillway for Lock and Dam 17 is being constructed inside cofferdam on the Verdigris River, about seven miles north of Muskogee."
Date: December 7, 1967
Creator: United States. Army. Corps of Engineers.
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0927.0080]

Description: Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Lock and Dam 14 - This view (looking downstream) shows the coffercells being built so construction of the lock and dam may begin. Lock and Dam 14 is the first lock and dam on the Arkansas River after the river leaves the state of Arkansas. It is being built about 9 miles southwest of Ft. Smith."
Date: August 29, 1967
Creator: Tulsa Dist. Corps of Engineers
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0927.0098]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Elevated bridge looms above its old bracing on SH 51 near Wagoner in eastern Oklahoma. Engineers on the Arkansas River Navigation Project were faced with the problem of a bridge too low to allow river traffic beneath. The solution: raise the bridge, instead of "razing" it."
Date: April 17, 1970
Creator: Aker, Joe
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0927.0143]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "The first commercial barge to travel the full length of the Arkansas River Navigation System docked at the Port of Catoosa at Tulsa on Jan. 21, 1971. The barge was carrying 650 tons of newsprint."
Date: January 21, 1971
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0927.0099]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Moving the water into the land to bring seaport status to Oklahoma by 1970 is a $1.2 billion Arkansas River navigation project which takes a giant step forward Saturday with one shovel of dirt. Groundbreaking ceremonies for a $1.2 million marine terminal start at 10 a.m. near the Robert S. Kerr Lock and Dam. The artist's drawing shows the terminal, which will be the main coast guard station on the river."
Date: August 11, 1968
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society
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