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[Photograph 2012.201.B0152.0080]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Altus-Lugert Dam at Quartz Mountain State Park near Lone Wolf has been proposed by the Bureau of Reclamation to raise the spillway by 6 feet and increase the capacity of the reservoir by 47,000 acre feet."
Date: November 16, 1971
Creator: Long, Paul
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0152.0385]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Deepest Siphon of several is under construction in Kiowa County as part of the last major contract on the Mountain Park dam project."
Date: February 4, 1976
Creator: Long, Paul
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0152.0081]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Floodgates open at Lake Altus dam have released 155,000 acre feet of water in the last 44 days since heavy rains drenched the lake area in May."
Date: June 30, 1977
Creator: Long, Paul
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0152.0391]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Laying Pipe, workmen on the Mountain Park dam and reservoir are building a line which will take water 30 miles from the reservoir site in Kiowa County to Altus and Snyder."
Date: January 21, 1975
Creator: Long, Paul
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0152.0390]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Citizens of Snyder, Altus and Frederick will participate in the dedication of the Mountain Park Dam, now taking final shape, on Aug. 16."
Date: April 19, 1975
Creator: Long, Paul
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0553.0038]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Dedicated to temperance in 1909, the elaborate water fountain on the courthouse square in Hobart has been dry even of water for as long as most citizens can remember."
Date: August 10, 1976
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0231.0524]

Description: Caption: "This old house, which once was a general store, stood at the busiest corner of Cold Springs when it was a thriving town, boasting a hotel, limber yard, four general stores, dry goods store, telephone exchange, meat market, granite company, cotton gin, blacksmith shop, filling station--and even a cheese factory."
Date: November 14, 1972
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0354.0867]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Getting ready for a backyard cookout at the Chester Lee home in Hobart, Vietnamese refugees and Dr. Ernest Lee watch Mr. and Mrs. Lee, right, prepare the charcoal grill. Dr. Lee works with Wycliffe Bible Translators, and is sponsoring these five refugees."
Date: July 29, 1975
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B1393.0072]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Hobart hurler Bobby Ward, who pitched a no-hitter earlier this season, lets one fly during a game with the Village Lions Thursday."
Date: July 25, 1974
Creator: Giudice, Gary
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0418B.0424]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Mountain Park, Okla., grocer George Mathey had been blind in one eye for 30 years and the other was failing badly as he scanned an article in The Sunday Oklahoman 12 years ago. He was 51 at the time, and had a wife and three children, the youngest of whom was only 12, and his vision was fading fast. He would later receive a corneal transplant, and has been thriving in this Southwest Oklahoma community since."
Date: August 8, 1971
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0339.0252]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Claud Kelly is the last man in the tiny Kiowa County community of Cold Springs and he reluctantly admits that time is fast running out for him and the 21 cats left in the village."
Date: July 18, 1973
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society
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