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[Photograph 2012.201.B0053.0261]

Description: Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Boxcar Pileup---This shows some of the 21 freight cars which piled up during a derailment of a Missouri Pacific train between Sallisaw and Muldrow about 8:50 p.m. Sunday."
Date: June 26, 1958
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0152.0306]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Looking Over the Robert S. Kerr Lock and Dam south of Sallisaw from atop the lock control house is F. W. Krshka, mechanical engineer for the Corps of Engineers."
Date: February 23, 1970
Creator: Frey, Phil
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0152.0304]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Construction Is over 85 per cent complete on the Robert S. Kerr Lock and Dam being built on the Arkansas River eight miles south of Sallisaw, the Army Corps of Engineers reports."
Date: 1969
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

Water Conservation; Water Erosion; Flooding and Prevention

Description: Photograph of flood damage. Flood damage from high water on the Arkansas River. The river changed its course causing the complete loss of 350 acres of good bottom land. The land lost was not just damaged but was completely washed away when the river cut across this filed. The river stayed over the field for 2 weeks and is at a high level for the sixth week. OK-604-6.
Date: July 28, 1957
Creator: McConnell, John
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society
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