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[Photograph 2012.201.B0152.0020]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Giant Gibson - Towering over the diverted Grand river near Fort Gibson is this massive concrete structure. It is the state's largest concrete dam, now 80 percent complete and will hold 461,300 cubic yards of concrete by the time it is completed."
Date: June 10, 1949
Creator: Johnson, Bill
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0152.0018]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Giant draft tubes will send water back into the Grand river after it goes through 20,000 horsepower turbines at the $20,000,000 Grand River dam in northeastern Oklahoma."
Date: July 11, 1939
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0152.0051]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Little Niagara--Right Here in Oklahoma--This is Oklahoma's newest scenic wonder and from the size of the splash it might well be called the state's little Niagara, or something."
Date: 1941
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0152.0040]

Description: Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "The dam sight looking southeast from top of 200-foot bluff. dam will connect with this bluff and reach to bluff in right background. "Echo Valley" reaches back to the north, forming a perfect lake bed."
Date: August 6, 1940
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0152.0048]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "View of the Grand River looking up stream from the west bank of the dam. Note; the high banks of the river. A section of the - coffer dam is shown in the lower right corner of the picture. The hydroelectric power plant will be located beside this bluff."
Date: 1938
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0152.0017]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "A new Piece of equipment dubbed the Snooper is being utilized in a Grand Dam Authority project to make repairs on the mile long bridge across the Pensacola Dame on SH 28 In Northeastern Oklahoma."
Date: 1978
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society
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