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Police Officer with Car

Description: Photograph provides a view of James Smith, Chief of the Altus Police Department. Police Department building is in the background. It was located at 209 W. Commerce.
Date: July 15, 1947
Creator: Hovey, D. A.
Partner: Museum of the Western Prairie

Inspection Tour

Description: Caption says, "5-AL-336. Inspection tour. Oklahoma's Governor Kerr obligingly poses with a field ripened watermelon. Watermelons are one of many crops grown successfully under irrigation on the Altus Project."
Date: August 15, 1946
Creator: Parker, D. B.
Partner: Museum of the Western Prairie

Panorama 2 of 4, J. W. Watson Farm

Description: Caption says, "5-AL-415. Specifications No. 1374. Number two of a four shot panorama of the J. W. Watson farm, looking northeast to southeast from Altus City Reservoir. View taken opposite Station 777+75, Altus Canal."
Date: November 13, 1946
Creator: Parker, D. B.
Partner: Museum of the Western Prairie

Concrete Placing

Description: Caption says, "A-944 Method of concrete placing on controlled spillway. Concrete bucket is dumped into Ford 2 c.y. dump truck which transports and places concrete in 20-inch lift. Note completed uncontrolled spillway and piers 1, 2, and 3 on right."
Date: September 20, 1944
Creator: George, P. W.
Partner: Museum of the Western Prairie

Compacting Canal

Description: Caption says, "A-946 Looking north from Station 86+00, Main Canal, showing final embankment being compacted. Note compaction of canal permieter in background."
Date: September 20, 1944
Creator: George, P. W.
Location: None
Partner: Museum of the Western Prairie

Excavating Relocation Site

Description: Excavation area for the Altus highway and railroad relocation project. Caption says, "A-597 Carryalls excavating on Sant Fe Railroad relocation area, vicinity of Stations No. 48 to 55."
Date: February 20, 1942
Creator: Breitenstein, Frank C.
Location: None
Partner: Museum of the Western Prairie

Construction Equipment

Description: Construction equipment working on the Altus highway and railroad relocation project. Caption says, "A-600 Looking west along Highway No. 44 relocation fill, Station No. 46."
Date: February 25, 1942
Creator: Breitenstein, Frank C.
Location: None
Partner: Museum of the Western Prairie

Excavating relocation area

Description: Construction equipment working on the Altus highway and railroad relocation project. Caption says, "A-599 Excavating relocation area of Santa Fe Railroad west of Station No. 45"
Date: February 25, 1942
Creator: Breitenstein, Frank C.
Location: None
Partner: Museum of the Western Prairie

Construction Crew Excavating

Description: Large shovel and dump truck with several laborers working on the Altus highway and railroad relocation project. Caption says, "A-603 Northwest shovel No. 2 excavating drain on Highway No. 44 relocation, Station No. 59."
Date: February 25, 1942
Creator: Breitenstein, Frank C.
Location: None
Partner: Museum of the Western Prairie
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