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[Photograph 2012.201.B0927.0098]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Elevated bridge looms above its old bracing on SH 51 near Wagoner in eastern Oklahoma. Engineers on the Arkansas River Navigation Project were faced with the problem of a bridge too low to allow river traffic beneath. The solution: raise the bridge, instead of "razing" it."
Date: April 17, 1970
Creator: Aker, Joe
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0927.0087]

Description: Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Upstream lock gate on Arkansas River navigation system, Lock and Dam No. 13 near Barling, southeast of Ft. Smith, Ark."
Date: December 20, 1969
Creator: Albright, Bob
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0927.0089]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "The push of a button Saturday at Lock and Dam No. 13 southeast of Fort Smith lowered 100-ton gates into the Arkansas River, linking river navigation facilities between Arkansas and Oklahoma. This will tie Oklahoma trade markets to the oceans of the world."
Date: December 20, 1969
Creator: Albright, Bob
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0927.0101]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "In operation, 23 years after its authorization, is Lock and Dam No. 13 on the Arkansas River. The opening of river traffic to Fort Smith, Ark., is signaled by he swirl of river waters around the closed gates of the dam. The project is expected to open the way for barge traffic to the Port of Catoosa near Tulsa by this time next year."
Date: December 20, 1969
Creator: Albright, Bob
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0927.0125]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Giant gates along the spillway at Lock and Dam No. 13 were lowered Saturday when Mayor Allen Toothaker of Van Buren, Ark., Mayor Jack Freeze of Fort Smith, and Jim Alexander, president of the Fort Smith Chamber of Commerce, pushed these buttons."
Date: December 20, 1969
Creator: Albright, Bob
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0927.0138]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Barges stand idle at the Port of Catoosa, the largest Oklahoma harbor on the $1.2 billion Arkansas River Navigation System."
Date: February 7, 1980
Creator: Argo, Jim
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0927.0142]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Coal is loaded onto a barge for transport down the Arkansas River Navigation System. The 137-mile Oklahoma channel was to be the pot of gold at the end of a manmade rainbow, but it hasn't quite turned out that way."
Date: November 30, 1979
Creator: Argo, Jim
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0927.0166]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Huddling to discuss one of the many charts showing proposed routes for the Deep Fork Navigation and Central Oklahoma Projects is a group who attended a public hearing Wednesday at Fountainhead Lodge."
Date: March 24, 1971
Creator: Argo, Jim
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0927.0172]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "A barge cruising on a river probably isn't a scene that the majority of this state's residents have become accustomed to."
Date: February 16, 1982
Creator: Argo, Jim
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0927.0174]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "The Monnie Speaker, built more than nine years ago, is one of a dozen boats that regularly travel the McClellan-Kerr Arkansas River Navigation System."
Date: January 23, 1986
Creator: Argo, Jim
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0927.0177]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Tony Byars, left, Don Gibbs and Don Gibbs and Bob Mueller share much of their lives together as the crew on the Monnie Speakes."
Date: January 23, 1986
Creator: Argo, Jim
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0927.0123]

Description: Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Registering at the Friday meeting of the Arkansas-Verdigris Basin Development Association in Tulsa were Tom McSpadden, left, and J. B. Ray, both of Muskogee. (Fairmont-Mayo Hotel in Tulsa was site of meeting concerning Arkansas River navigation project; approximately 400 delegates attended.)"
Date: March 13, 1970
Creator: Cornelius Photography
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0927.0124]

Description: Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Members of the delegation at a meeting in Tulsa of the Arkansas River Basin Development Association discuss the navigation project at the Fairmont-Mayo Hotel."
Date: March 13, 1970
Creator: Cornelius Photography
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0927.0077]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Barges carrying a record tonnage of 12,600 tons of wheat and being moved by the largest tug ever on the Oklahoma portion of the McClellan-Kerr Waterway are shown on their way to New Orleans through the locks at Webbers Falls."
Date: December 12, 1974
Creator: Etter, Jim
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0927.0188]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Don Steele ferries his tractor to his farm on an island in the middle of an Arkansas River segment of the McClellan-Kerr Waterway near Braggs."
Date: September 6, 1975
Creator: Etter, Jim
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society
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