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[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.9436]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Contractors have completed grading work on the Oklahoma City by-pass from Classen to May and paving will start soon on the four-lane highway. The grade and drainage work was completed by Tex Baughman at a cost of $150,000. The W. E. Steelman Co. has the paving contract and has constructed curbing and is putting finishing touches on the base. The job will cost $425,000. traffic on May is now passing over the four-lane hi… more
Date: November 12, 1952
Creator: Killian, Thomas F.
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.9469]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma City Times newspaper. Caption: "Traffic on U.S. 66 will soon be flowing over, around and under this overpass now nearing completion at NW 39 and Grand blvd. This view in picture at right, looking northeast, shows one of two overpasses and part of a traffic circle that form a traffic seperation that ultimately will be part of a four-lane expressway to be developed along Grand blvd. The curving road in foreground is a temporary route for U.S. 66 traff… more
Date: November 29, 1955
Creator: Albright, Bob
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.9435]

Description: Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "(photo of road construction, a service truck going on the overpass from left to right, construction equipment hole roler going away from the camera, and more)"
Date: November 12, 1952
Creator: Killian, Thomas F.
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.9463]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma City Times newspaper. Caption: "Here's how a big city-state highway project emerges from the blueprint stage, and begins to take shape as the new bypass route on U.S. 66. In the foreground is a culvert form, and beyond that the big tread marks left by the tires of heavy earth-moving equipment trace the general path of the new road from the southeast corner of NE 63 and Eastern over the hill in the extreme background, around a bend in Deep Fork creek,… more
Date: November 30, 1949
Creator: Owen, A. Y.
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0289B.0092]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "STEEL BARS of concrete reinforcing rods form an unusual pattern in front of heavy construction work at N Lincoln and U. S. 66 bypass."
Date: November 26, 1965
Creator: Peterson, Dick
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0289B.0505]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Overpass under construction on the bypass near the Turner Turnpike present a dramatic scene to westbound tourist entering Oklahoma City on US 66."
Date: November 14, 1957
Creator: King, Cliff
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0289B.0123]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "The U. S. 66 by-pass route north of the city was one step nearer reality Monday as construction work began on the first leg of the project."
Date: November 12, 1949
Creator: Owen, A. Y.
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0289B.0122]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Wooden forms show where additions were built on the bridge piers over the urban bypass to correct a mistake made in the new northeast bypass under construction."
Date: November 20, 1956
Creator: Miller, Joe
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.9460]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma City Times newspaper. Caption: "Traffic on U.S. 66 will soon be flowing over, around and under this overpass now nearing completion at NW 39 and Grand blvd. This view in picture at right, looking northeast, shows one of two overpasses and part of a traffic circle that form a traffic seperation that ultimately will be part of a four-lane expressway to be developed along Grand blvd. The curving road in foreground is a temporary route for U.S. 66 traff… more
Date: November 29, 1955
Creator: Albright, Bob
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society
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