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[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.9856]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma City Times newspaper. Caption: "It has been a long time but city motorists now enjoy the fruit of weeks of long waiting for street improvements to be completed. This picture shows the Linwood bond issue street improvement looking from NW 12 and Pennsylvania."
Date: May 20, 1952
Creator: Miller, Joe
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.9855]

Description: Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Nine American elm trees waved with the breeze Wednesday near Putnam Heights school, victors in a fight with the city forester, the city manager and the city council. Three of their brothers weren't so lucky. They had shorn limb stubs to testify to the heat of the battle. The same could happen to the others if the temporary victory doesn't stick......"I looked out my window Tuesday morning and and saw men cutt… more
Date: July 16, 1952
Creator: Miller, Joe
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.7616]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma City Times newspaper. Caption: "The "steel blues" were over Tuesday at the veterans administration hospital under construction at NE 13 and Kelly. Sufficent steel is now on hand and at the mills to insure completion of the 500-bed hospital. Some of the steel is shown in the picture. Completion Date of City's New VA Hospital Set Back to 1953. Completion date of the new 500-bed veterans administration hospital at NE 13 and Kelly has now been… more
Date: January 7, 1952
Creator: Miller, Joe
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.3545]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma City Times newspaper. Caption: "Automotive hearts should leap with joy at this scene., showing laying of the first paving on the Oklahoma City end of the Turner turnpike Friday morning. Here Metropolitan Paving Co. workmen spread a five-inch layer of asphaltic concrete beginning at Mile No. 7, some 15 miles northeast of Oklahoma City. They will spread the ribbon back toward the city to Witcher, where the Oklahoma City toll gate will be built, and wh… more
Date: August 14, 1952
Creator: Miller, Joe
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.0731]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma City Times newspaper. Caption: "Families Mob Returning Thunderbirds First of an estimated 5,000 Oklahoma members of the battle-scarred 45th division, due home in the next few months, arrived at Fort Sill early Thursday morning. This was the scene minutes after the troop train ground to a halt. Scores of relatives were waiting to see the "boys" before they started through the discharge porcedure at the Sill seperation center."
Date: April 17, 1952
Creator: Miller, Joe
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.5177]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma City Times newspaper. Caption: "A 11-block strip of new asphalt paving on Broadway from grand to NW 10 was open to traffic Monday, three weeks ahead of schedule. Metropolitian Paving Co., contractor, started work on the job June 16, planning to do a block a week. The orginal contract called for a price of $125,141. An additional $1,500 was added for a new storm sewer in the 100 block N Broadway. property owners along the street will pay two-thirds… more
Date: August 10, 1952
Creator: Miller, Joe
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.2079]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Outlines of Oklahoma City's $16 millions North Canadian river floodway are shaping up north of the NE 23 bridge. List and Clark, contractors, have moved heavy dirt moving equipment upstream to around NE 36 and workmen are cutting a section of the new channel which ultimately will contain the unruly North Canadian in that area. Work started about two months ago at the outfall end of the 14-mile-long canal project near Spen… more
Date: April 20, 1952
Creator: Miller, Joe
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.9455]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma City Times newspaper. Caption: "This picture shows the traffic circle on the U.S. 66 bypass looking south from NW 50 and Classen. The traffic circle connects the bypass that runs beneath the Western avenue bridge and connects south with the new Classen improvements. The present paln is to light this circle and paint lanes for a driving pattern."
Date: May 20, 1952
Creator: Miller, Joe
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.5175]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma City Times newspaper. Caption: "Time and a street improvement program have cured a lot of ailments on rough city streets. On July 17, 1951, Oklahoma City Times reporters made a survey of city streets, using a home-made but semi-scientific bumpometer. The bumpometer recorded bumps on city streets and the graph at the bottom of the photo shows what they found on N Broadway between NW 4 and NW 10. Friday, the Times borrowed the fire department's 100-f… more
Date: August 20, 1952
Creator: Miller, Joe
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.7489]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma City Times newspaper. Caption: "Lake Hefner is down 12 feet from capacity, and the shoreline has stretched far out into what used to be the lake. But city officials aren't worried about Oklahoma City having a water shortage this summer. There'll be no repeat of the 1936, '40 and '48 water rationing, Morison B. Cunnungham, city water superintendent, assures lawn-waterers. Suffering most from the low water are boat enthusiast who can't dock thier cra… more
Date: May 14, 1952
Creator: Miller, Joe
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society
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