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[Photograph 2012.201.B0338.0134]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Col. C. H. Chorpening district engineer, U. S. Army Engineers, Tulsa district, was interested in the State Flag flown from all State Patrol boats, so Gov. Kerr took time out on Lake Texoma to explain the meaning of the design."
Date: August 18, 1946
Creator: Broun, Robin
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

Power for the People: Developing the Grand River Dam Authority, Part 2, 1945-1964

Description: This article is the second part of a two-part article on the Grand River Dam Authority. In this part, the author analyzes the state agency's history after World War II. Only one-third complete in 1945, the GRDA operated only Pensacola Dam. Over the next three decades Senators Elmer Thomas and Robert S. Kerr guided the federal legislation that would allow the Authority to complete its flood control dams and power generation/distribution facilities in the watershed of the Grand River.
Date: Autumn 2009
Creator: Lowitt, Richard, 1922-2018
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society
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