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[Photograph 2012.201.B0290.0088]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Eighty-Acre Lake-It backs up from the Quanah Parker dam. The picture was made from the high bank above, looking down on the top of the dam and on across the country the big lake is forming."
Date: July 14, 1935
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

Water Falling Over a Large Pond Dam

Description: Photograph of water falling over a large pond dam. An adequate spillway was not provided for this dam and excess water must flow over the crest. The dam is cutting and will eventually be ruined. This picture was taken in the rain immediately after an inch of water had fallen in one half hour.
Date: April 20, 1937
Creator: Hufnagle
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Cracks Developed in a Dam

Description: Photograph of cracks that have developed in a farm pond dam, improperly constructed by a private contractor. Dam was built to height and then widened by pushing dirt down over the sides with a bulldozer.
Date: September 17, 1938
Creator: Hufnagle, Richard W.
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.6506]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Here is a perspective of the Canton dam on the North Canadian river, prepared by army engineers at Tulsa. The project will cost $13,850,00 when completed. It was about 35 percent complete when construction was stopped by the war emergency Inivations to bid on $5,500,000 worth of construction went out January 8 and bids will be opened by army engineers at Tulsa february 6. Don McBridw, chairman of the state planning and r… more
Date: 1946
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0152.0402]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "This farm, with the house and other buildings standing desolatately in a vast lake of water, is typical of flood scenes in northwest Oklahoma locations hardest hit by the North Canadian river rampage."
Date: October 10, 1946
Creator: Stockwell, Bill
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0152.0118]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "The Canton dam, on the North Canadian river, is about 40 percent complete and ahead of construction schedule, with impounding of water scheduled to begin in July, Col. C. H. Corpening, district engineer for the corps of engineers, war department, announced Wednesday."
Date: February 4, 1947
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society
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