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New Zealand Railway (NZR) J1233

Description: A photograph print of New Zealand Railway (NZR) J1233, 4-8-2 (north British Loco Co.), a mixed-traffic general purpose locomotive of NZR design with Baker valve gear - the newest design on the NZR. Photo taken in Dunedin, two days after entering service.
Date: February 16, 1940
Creator: Rockliff, Stanley Arthur
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

Union Pacific (UP) 818 & 2295 on "Pony Express"

Description: A photograph postcard showing Union Pacific (UP) 818, 4-8-4, and 2295, 2-8-2, running extra with passenger train No. 37, "Pony Express", on C&S track near Westminster, CO, due to burned up bridge. Train was made up backwards to avoid urning at Cheyenne, 15 cars, 30 mph. UP paid C&S $1.50 per mile for every train on C&S tracks.
Date: June 16, 1940
Creator: Kindig, Richard H.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Postcard
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

Rock Blasting

Description: Rock blasting being done for rock quarry. Caption says, "A-33 Altus Project. First telephoto shot of large blast of the rock quarry. Three thousand one hundred and fifty pounds of .80 per cent gelatin powder was used to lift the large section of granite from the south side of the mountain. Thirty lateral holes drilled with the wagon drilling with the wagon drilling outfit at a depth of 40 feet and ten vertical holes drilled with jack hammers at a depth of 10 feet average were used to take the g… more
Date: December 16, 1940
Creator: Breitenstein, Frank C.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Location: 34.870809 -99.293447
Partner: Museum of the Western Prairie

Gully Control in Natural Drain

Description: Photograph of gully control in a natural drain, formerly 15 foot to 20 foot deep. Soil Conservation sloped banks, made fills and solid sodded to Bermuda grass. Approx. 700 acres drain through this outlet and erosion is almost 100% stabilized. May to August 1940 this outlet safely carried run-off from a total of 25 inches of rainfall.
Date: November 16, 1940
Creator: Jenkins, Elvin W.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.5142]

Description: Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "(street view looking towards downtown at center with "Dink Parrish Palace" vehice" and a "Texaco" on the left, train tracks and underpass ahead, furniture store and what looks like housing on the right, and more "from Harrison Avenue's hundred block")"
Date: April 16, 1940
Creator: Kaho, C. J.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B1434.0772]

Description: Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "A new photograph of Louis Bromfield, whose latest novel, Night In Bombay, will be published by harper and Brothers o May 8."
Date: June 16, 1940
Creator: Craig, Ed
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society
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