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[Photograph 2012.201.B0979.0671]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Bigger than a barrel, these sections of 48-inch cast iron pipe will carry 34,000,000 gallons of water daily to thirsty Oklahoma City when the new bond issue line, extending eastward from Lake Hefner filtration plant to N Broadway in Britton, is completed."
Date: August 2, 1956
Creator: Traverse, Austin
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.8245]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "First Joint In Atoka-Oklahoma City Pipline goes into the ground at the South Canadian River near Konawa. R. Lewis Barton, chairman of the $65 million trust handling construction breaks the paper plug in the first joint during Wednesday's ceremonies. About 200 citizens from communities between Oklahoma City and Atoka toured the project and visited the Lock Joint Pipe Co. plant at Ada where the 20-foot section are made. th… more
Date: August 2, 1961
Creator: Matheson, Mandell
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.8232]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma City Times newspaper. Caption: "Fourteen Miles OF Water are stretched out in this aerial photograph of Oklahoma City's Atoka reservoir. When the lake is filled to capacity, it will be approximately 15 miles long. Cutting across the center of the new lake is SH 43, which was re-routed over a 150-foot long span. (T-2-4-60) Atoka reservoir, pictured here from shallow end will contain 125,000 acre feet of water, more than Lakes Overholse and He… more
Date: January 2, 1960
Creator: Lucas, Jim
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B1353.0445]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "This machine, in a continuous process, rolls sheet steel to exact diameter, welds a helical seam and cuts each section to length."
Date: August 2, 1961
Creator: Matheson, Mandell
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B1353.0442]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Concrete and steel pipe for the 100-mile pipeline which will bring water to OKC from Lake Atoka some time in 1963 is manufactured in the Ada plant of Lock Joint Pipe Co."
Date: August 2, 1961
Creator: Matheson, Mandell
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.8241]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "The first joint of 60-inch concrete pipe in the Atoka pipeline was laid Wednesday in ceremonies attended by 200 civic leaders from Oklahoma City and other communities along the route. The yellow-painted concrete cylinder was lowered into an excavation at the north end of the South Canadian river crossing near Konawa to climax an all-day bus tour of the constuction project. About 125 Oklahoma City citizens aboard four buse… more
Date: August 2, 1961
Creator: Matheson, Mandell
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.10689]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "This scene will be repeated many times in the next few months as the city spends more than $3 millions in the water main extension work. This particular job is on NW 4 near the Lake Overholser pumping station. A 30-inch main will move out from this point and end up after a swing across town and the river, in the southwest part of Capitol Hill. Contracts have been signed for $2,800,00 of water main work and a third sectio… more
Date: March 2, 1951
Creator: Orris, John Adams
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society
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