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[Photograph 2012.201.B1353.0417]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Construction worker Mill smooths out dirt in the bottom of a pit which will be a tunnel under Ann Arbor for a 36-inch water main. The main is being installed to improve the water distribution system in northwest Oklahoma City."
Date: April 2, 1975
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B1353.0387]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "The culprit that flooded. the intersection of NW 36 and Western Monday night was 24-inch water main, above photo, which burst. Workmen, despite the weather, dug into the intersection, right photo, and repaired the broken main by early Tuesday."
Date: February 7, 1961
Creator: Lucas, Jim
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B1353.0411]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "GUSHING WATER surrounds water department field foreman Dana Schlittler, left after ad errant auto smashed into a fire hydrant near NW 4and Robinson Wednesday. At right, two workmen attempt to repair a broke water main which developed cracks after the accident."
Date: 1973
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B1353.0390]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "The culprit that flooded. the intersection of NW 36 and Western Monday night was 24-inch water main, above photo. which burst."
Date: February 7, 1961
Creator: Lucas, Jim
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B1353.0383]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Broken waterline at the bottom of this hole at North 36 and Santa Fe forced a service cutoff to several hundred homes today, the second time since Sunday. Water department offcials said a new break occurred about 9:30 p.m. Tuesday, and water to a mile-square section of homes was cut off about midnight. The leak is at the same location where a line burst Sunday and caused a two-day outage. Repairs were to be completed to nigh… more
Date: December 19, 1979
Creator: Klock, Roger
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B1353.0368]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Their jobs got a little wet today for workers laying a 48-inch pipeline straightacross Northeast Lake in the Oklahoma City Zoo. The line is part of a $3.8 million "Big inch" water main under construction from NE 42 and Santa Fe to NE 36 and Douglas. Workers are shown sinking piers to support the pipe."
Date: May 4, 1973
Creator: Argo, Jim
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B1353.0397]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "WATER AT DOORSTEP was one result of flooding in the vicinty of NW 12 and Drexel, caused by a ruptured 36-inch city water main."
Date: August 14, 1964
Creator: Heaton, Bob
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B1353.0385]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "City workers pump out water today from a hole created when a 60-inch water main burst at SE 74 and Douglas Thursday night."
Date: August 19, 1983
Creator: Wilson, George R.
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Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B1353.0371]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Abig repair job awaits this water main rupure at NE 36 ND sANT fE, a fractured 12-inch feeder tranamission line that branches off the "big inch" pipeline carrying Draper Lake water to north Oklahoma City."
Date: December 17, 1979
Creator: Klock, Roger
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B1353.0416]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Muddy job involves Lonnie Evans, left, 2413 NW 3, and James Massey, 321 SW 14. The Oklahoma City water department workers were called out of bed at 4 a.m., after a 6-inch castiron water pipe suddenly split in the 6000 block of N Pennsylvania."
Date: November 12, 1973
Creator: Artman, Roger
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B1353.0367]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "A city crew shut off this gusher today but not before it gouged a canyon along Holly Street south of NW 12 in Bethany. Mrs. Sue Corley, a nearby resident, said a car knocked a fire hydrant off the line two weeks ago, but no leak was visible before a flood exploded about 2;30 a.m. today."
Date: 1979
Creator: Klock, Roger
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B1353.0384]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Motorists in the 3200 block of W Reno splashed through what has become a rare sight these searing days - a flooded street. The water poured from a broken 20-inch main."
Date: August 15, 1980
Creator: Klock, Roger
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B1353.0380]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "It may be a sign of progress, but itis still a bit inconvenient for motorists on NE 13 near the University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center. Traffic moving eastward is being to westbound lane while 16 inch water main is being installed at a cost of $167,597 in an effort to overcome water pressure problems which arose last winter."
Date: October 6, 1977
Creator: Klock, Roger
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B1353.0406]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "The rupture blasted a hole 20 feet wide and 25 feet long. Another 25 feet of Portland was warped and buckled by the force of 90 punds per square inch of pressure from the main."
Date: August 4, 1972
Creator: Albright, Bob
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Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society
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