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[Photograph 2012.201.B0152.0041]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Dams - Grand River Vinita, Okla. -- Sweeping view of the excavation work for the Grand river dam, looking east from the bluff on the west back of the river."
Date: 1938
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0349.0608]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Above one of the scenic bridges in the state it is the Sailboat bridge across narrowest neck of Grand lake between Afton and Grove."
Date: June 10, 1947
Creator: Owen, A. Y.
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0349.0612]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "The water of Grand lake is beautiful in brilliant sunlight bur after sunset the lake shrouded in darkness and pierced only by the stars and lights along its shore gains a new majesty."
Date: July 6, 1947
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0349.0598]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "This is a typical view of Grand lake the 50,000 acre gem of watery beauty near Grove, Jay, Ketchum, Miami, Bernice and Fairland in northeast Oklahoma."
Date: May 9, 1948
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0500.0068]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "This is what the attorney general gave me," said Francis Goodpaster, Vinita, Craig county representative, as he sat on the steps of the University of Oklahoma barracks watching recruits for the highway patrol who will mount motorcycles Friday."
Date: June 10, 1937
Creator: Kaho, C. J.
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0349.0597]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Today the Grand lake level stands at 24 feet below the normal and just 16 feet above the danger point when GRDAs six huge hydro electric turbines can no longer function."
Date: February 15, 1953
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0152.0052]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "SIGHT---Vinita residents like to go to Grand river Dam. It's only 18 miles away. But Sunday it was 73 miles away by the only passable roads, and consequently not many went out. Here's what they missed. The dam's main spillway gates were opened releasing 100,000 cubic feet of water a second."
Date: 1941
Creator: N., Crawford C.
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0152.0020]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Giant Gibson - Towering over the diverted Grand river near Fort Gibson is this massive concrete structure. It is the state's largest concrete dam, now 80 percent complete and will hold 461,300 cubic yards of concrete by the time it is completed."
Date: June 10, 1949
Creator: Johnson, Bill
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society
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