29 Matching Results

Search Results

Advanced search parameters have been applied.

[Photograph 2012.201.B0260.0706]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "State maintenance crews have worked on the shoulders of U. S. 66, but the narrow roadway forces trucks and cars off the slab."
Date: January 4, 1949
Creator: Lucas, Jim
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0260.0678]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "In the lower picture workmen are putting finishing touches to newly poured concrete sections on the new road, which involves 1.5 miles of concrete paving."
Date: July 14, 1949
Creator: Owen, A. Y.
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.9643]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "First leg of Oklahoma City's urban road project is drawing lots of roadside superintendents near NE 63 and Eastern. Delmas Ford, left, assisstant secretary for the school land department, and LaVerne Carleton, ward three councilman, are shown at the start of the by-pass project. First leg of the road, now under construction, will run from NE 63 and Eastern to Lincoln and Grand boulevard. When completed the by-pass will s… more
Date: December 29, 1949
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.0106]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Start of construction on the new highway approach for U. s 66 and 77 from NE 63 and Eastern to Grand boulevard, thence to Lincoln, is being planned by state and city officials for autumn."
Date: July 11, 1949
Creator: Owen, A. Y.
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
Back to Top of Screen