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[Photograph 2012.201.B0259.0067]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "New slant on mowing a giant obstacle course of steep slopes, ditches and debris-laden shoulders along 12,000 miles of Oklahoma highways is the way the highway department views its equipment named, naturally, the steep slope mower."
Date: July 14, 1966
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0259.0063]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Emaciated by winter's chill wind, these rose bushes along I-35 near SE 89 will, come spring, help slow an out-of-control vehicle should it crash through overpass guardrails, officials say."
Date: February 19, 1980
Creator: Tullous, Don
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0259.0064]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Moving day for the state highway department doesn't include packing fragile china, but a 7,000-pound camera and a 31,197-pound computer make chairs and desks seem easy for the department's personnel."
Date: September 7, 1974
Creator: Argo, Jim
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0259.0066]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "The first state highway maintenance facility has been opened in Comanche County in a ceremony with T. H. McCasland, highway commission member Duncan, and J. C. Kennedy, Lawton Chamber of Commerce roads and streets chairman."
Date: June 7, 1963
Creator: Granger, Frank
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.3776]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma City Times newspaper. Caption: "Crux of highway department check to determine if contractors are using foiegn steel is steel from West Germany such as that picture above. It is stacked in the 1000 block W California. Turnpike Authority, at Gov. Bellmon's urging, voted against using imported and cheaper steel in turnpikes."
Date: April 29, 1964
Creator: Albright, Bob
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0109.0058]

Description: Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "The new director of the state highway department says he is concerned about finalizing all designs and engineering estimates in time to let bids on all interstate projects by July of 1973."
Date: March 26, 1971
Creator: Argo, Jim
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0109.0060]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Highway director Chester Brooks...business as usual today at the first highway commission meeting since defeat of Gov. Hall's Freeway 77 program."
Date: March 13, 1972
Creator: Tullous, Don
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0236.0350]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "E. A. Gill, head of the right-of-way division of the state highway department , Monday stared unbelieving at a $1 check received form California."
Date: November 29, 1948
Creator: Meek, Richard B.
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0109.0057]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Some highway death trap elimination projects promised last year by Gov. Hall have swollen to three times their original cost in conjunction with Freeway 77 priorities."
Date: 1972
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0109.0056]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Bond foe Dee Replogle, left, and highway director Chester Brooks were among early voters in Oklahoma County this morning."
Date: March 7, 1972
Creator: Tapscott, George
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0163B.0580]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "AWARDING-WINNING BUILDING selected by the Oklahoma Chapter of the American Concrete Institute is the Department of Highways Building opened last year at the capitol complex."
Date: May 1, 1975
Creator: Albright, Bob
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society
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