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[Photograph 2012.201.B0353.0430]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Many a bathtub full of water has been taken out of the city's main water reservoir to make the city boat docks unusuable - by a margin of about 10 feet."
Date: February 4, 1953
Creator: McLaughlin, Al
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0353.0418]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "If you still have a doubt about the seriousness of Oklahoma City's water shortage, this picture should help change your mind."
Date: June 25, 1953
Creator: Killian, Thomas F.
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0353.0413]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "The concrete breakwater, top left above, was built to protect boats in the municipal boat harbor at Lake Hefner from being dashed against their docks by high-running waves."
Date: February 4, 1953
Creator: McLaughlin, Al
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0367.0349]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Water was flowing into lake Hefner Thursday, the first water to dampen the canal leading from the North Canadian river to the city's bigger reservoir since mid-September."
Date: November 19, 1953
Creator: Cobb, Richard
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0353.0401]

Description: Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Docks on Lake Hefner, one of Oklahoma City's two parched municipal reservoirs, are left high and dry by the current drought, far from remaining water which may be seen in the distance."
Date: July 15, 1953
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0353.0400]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "These mussels lost their livelihood when the water level dropped at Lake Hefner and left their mud playground a cracked wasteland."
Date: February 4, 1953
Creator: McLaughlin, Al
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society
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