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[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.8232]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma City Times newspaper. Caption: "Fourteen Miles OF Water are stretched out in this aerial photograph of Oklahoma City's Atoka reservoir. When the lake is filled to capacity, it will be approximately 15 miles long. Cutting across the center of the new lake is SH 43, which was re-routed over a 150-foot long span. (T-2-4-60) Atoka reservoir, pictured here from shallow end will contain 125,000 acre feet of water, more than Lakes Overholse and He… more
Date: January 2, 1960
Creator: Lucas, Jim
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B1353.0445]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "This machine, in a continuous process, rolls sheet steel to exact diameter, welds a helical seam and cuts each section to length."
Date: August 2, 1961
Creator: Matheson, Mandell
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B1353.0438]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "That fascinating, 100-mile, 60-inch pipeline designed to carry water from Atoka Reservoir to Elm Creek Reservoir southeast of Tinker Air Force Base is about 60 percent complete."
Date: 1962
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B1353.0442]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Concrete and steel pipe for the 100-mile pipeline which will bring water to OKC from Lake Atoka some time in 1963 is manufactured in the Ada plant of Lock Joint Pipe Co."
Date: August 2, 1961
Creator: Matheson, Mandell
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B1353.0447]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "WORKMEN RACED toward completion of the 100-mils Atoka water pipeline Friday with 74.9 miles now in the ground and almost 80 miles of pipe hauled and strung."
Date: 1962
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.8251]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma City Times newspaper. Caption: "The Atoka-to-Oklahoma City pipeline is more than half way home - at least as far as right of way is concerned. Howard Cudd, municipal bond attorney, announced Tuesday that the midway mark has been passed in the purchase of right of way along the 99-mile route which will one day carry water from the new Atoka reservoir to Oklahoma City. Actual construction of the huge pipline is still apparently a long way off, but acc… more
Date: 1959
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.8235]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma City Times newspaper. Caption: "A dream abundant water supplies became a partial reality this week as Oklahoma City's new Atoka Reservoir filled up - and overflowed. It marked the completion of the first phase of a plan to amass water in southeastern Oklahoma and eventually pipe it cross-country into the city distribution system. High-points of the overall plan are shown in this series of aerial pictures by Times photographer Jim Lucas. As the pict… more
Date: May 8, 1960
Creator: Lucas, Jim
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.8230]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma City Times newspaper. Caption: "Lake builders stood on a lofty knoll northof here this week and vainly "wished" the water out of the Atoka reservoir. It was a wish repeated by an army of contruction workers who are building Oklahoma City's biggest storage lake in the face of an ironic obstacile - the very water with which they hope to fill it up. Guy H. James, who hold the largest single contract on the multi-million dollar project, gazed wishfull… more
Date: August 28, 1958
Creator: King, Cliff
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.8231]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma City Times newspaper. Caption: "The newest bridge along the re-located SH 43 is this triple-culvert structure lying near the Stringtown prison farm. High water from the Atoka reservoir will flow some eight feet deep through the three 10 by 10 openings. The relocated highway will cross over the center of the reservoir."
Date: August 28, 1958
Creator: King, Cliff
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.8234]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma City Times newspaper. Caption: "Millions In Contracting Business were at stake here as intent faces scanned "bid sheets" during opening of bids Thursday on the Atoka water project. Apparent low bidders were Lock Joint Pipe Co., and a new firm, Okatoka Construction Co., which is a "joint venture" including the firms which made the original proposition. the city council chamber was jammed with interested construction firm people, memebers of the city … more
Date: December 15, 1960
Creator: King, Cliff
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0292.0147]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "You've heard a lot about some other types of boys now it is time to hear the sort of story we need more of like bobby C. Darst, of Atoka ending his sophomore year at Oklahoma State University, Stillwater."
Date: August 10, 1960
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society
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