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[Photograph 2012.201.B0350.0316]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Thomas lake, 12 to 15 acres in size and 12 miles southwest of Broken Bow, has two or three excellent camp sites with plenty of shade."
Date: 1959
Creator: Petrauskas, Kazimir
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0349.0313]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "TWICE THE SIZE OF LAKE OVERHOLSER was the way city water Supt. M. B. Cunningham described Oklahoma City's Atoka reservoir, which was filling up Monday at an unexpected rate."
Date: July 27, 1959
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0349.0592]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Team to beat in next week's national snipe regatta to be held on Fort Gibson Lake is composed of skipper Ted Wells, right, in the boat in the foreground and his crew Dick Caspari. Each is from Wichita, Kan. Wells twice has been international champion and numerous times has won the national."
Date: June 19, 1959
Creator: King, Cliff
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0350.0317]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Fish are jumpin' at Thomas lake southwest of Broken Bow as Carl Strain, state forester, stares toward the water, lamenting the fact he left his fishing tackle at home."
Date: 1959
Creator: Petrauskas, Kazimir
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.7457]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Looks like those beautiful feathery trails left in the sky by giant jet planes, but it isn't. This is an aerial photograph pf speeding boats skimming over Lake Hefner. Basically, it's a sure sign spring is here but it also means there's plenty of water in Oklahoma City's lakes. Lake Overholser is practically full, Hefner is just 4.65 feet from the top and this with 90,00 acree feet in rented storage at Canton represents … more
Date: March 17, 1959
Creator: Lucas, Jim
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.7545]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma City Times newspaper. Caption: "Wild Water foamed from Lake Overholser toward the Oklahoma City by-pass canal Monday, with gates opened wide to gulp run-off from torrential Yukon and El Reno rains. Flow was clocked at nearly 7,500 cubic feer per second here, and was expected to hold that rate at least until noon."
Date: October 5, 1959
Creator: Lucas, Jim
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0349.0492]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Lake Texoma's largest visiting cruiser dock is located at Island View resort, 7 miles north of Pottsboro, Tex., and just across the lake due south from Soldier Creek resort on the Oklahoma side."
Date: 1959
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0349.0301]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "DEDICATION of the city's new water supply reservoir near Atoka was the destination of these city official and civic leaders as they boarded a special bus here Saturday."
Date: June 5, 1959
Creator: Peterson, Dick
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.7533]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "A sight Oklahoma City hasn't seen since last June attracted thousands of sight-seeing citizens to Lake Overholser again Monday. Above, water pours over the "roll over" at the north end of the lake. Although some water came into the lake from rains during March, the flow could be handled through the low gates. It takes something more than a moderate flow to send water from the river churning over the concrete "roll-over."
Date: April 6, 1959
Creator: Miller, Joe
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.7461]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma City Times newspaper. Caption: "The Winning Snipe: Skipper Ted Wells, left, is shown here in this bit of sailing action, as he sent his Snipe home first in Sunday's third and deciding race of the regatta at Lake Hefner. Leaning over the starboard side of the boat is the Wichita's skipper's crew, youthful Dick Caspari of Kansas."
Date: June 13, 1959
Creator: King, Cliff
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society
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