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[Photograph 2012.201.B0152.0028]

Description: Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Almost tiny by comparison with the buttresses they form, the individual units into which concrete is poured on the Grand River dam are 20 feet by 16 feet, made of steel."
Date: July 6, 1939
Creator: Grand River Dam Authority
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0152.0021]

Description: Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Buttresses are beginning to rise on the Grand river dam. When completed, they will tower an average of 150feet above bedrock."
Date: July 6, 1939
Creator: Grand River Dam Authority
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[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.B0152.0400]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Oologah Dedication drew an estimated 1,500 persons , part of them shown here, as Rep. Ed Edmondson, left, served as master of ceremonies for the reservoir ceremony."
Date: July 20, 1963
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0152.0018]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Giant draft tubes will send water back into the Grand river after it goes through 20,000 horsepower turbines at the $20,000,000 Grand River dam in northeastern Oklahoma."
Date: July 11, 1939
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society
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