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Police Officers with Car

Description: Photograph depicts members of the Altus Police Department. James Smith, Chief of Police is at left. Six
Date: July 15, 1947
Creator: Hovey, D. A.
Partner: Museum of the Western Prairie

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

Hydraulic Press

Description: Caption says, "A-527 Hydraulic press for assembling and tearing down Caterpillar track pins and bushings. Seven-inch diameter cylinder has safety load capacity of 35 tons; maximum load 50 tons. Oil pump used was removed from International dump truck. Press was constructed by Bureau mechanics in shops at Altus."
Date: January 13, 1942
Creator: Breitenstein, Frank C.
Partner: Museum of the Western Prairie

Administration Buildings

Description: Caption says, "A-42 Altus Project. Photograph showing the administration section of the rock quarry. The sheet iron building at the left is the new compressor house, the building beyond the new ambulance is the store room and the building to the right is the headquarters building with a new bulletin board to the right of the entrance."
Date: January 16, 1941
Creator: Breitenstein, Frank C.
Partner: Museum of the Western Prairie

Assorted Rock Sizes

Description: Caption says, "A-123 Stockyard with rows of assorted sizes of rocks to be squared for use in the construction of the new Altus Dam."
Date: July 6, 1941
Creator: Breitenstein, Frank C.
Partner: Museum of the Western Prairie

WPA Laborers at Rock Quarry

Description: Caption says, "A-390 Rock quarry. WPA laborers trimming face stone in stoneyard below rock quarry. Left is bull set breaking rock along chalk line. Right is hand set trimming edges of rock."
Date: October 11, 1941
Creator: Breitenstein, Frank C.
Partner: Museum of the Western Prairie

New Masonry Dam Face

Description: Caption says, "A-392 Rock quarry. End view of model section of face on New Masonry Dam. Model constructed in stoneyard below rock quarry."
Date: October 11, 1941
Creator: Breitenstein, Frank C.
Partner: Museum of the Western Prairie

Derrick Moving Stone

Description: Caption says, "A-403 Rock quarry. Portable derrick moving face stone in stoneyard below quarry."
Date: October 20, 1941
Creator: Breitenstein, Frank C.
Partner: Museum of the Western Prairie

Rock Excavation

Description: Caption says, "A-382 Railroad and Highway Relocation. Rock excavation in cut on Santa Fe Railroad Relocation. Station 75 to 77."
Date: October 9, 1941
Creator: Breitenstein, Frank C.
Partner: Museum of the Western Prairie

Sloping Sides of Highway 44

Description: Caption says, "A-387 Railroad and Highway Relocation. Tractor and mold board used in sloping sides of Highway #44 fill in preparation for riprapping."
Date: October 10, 1941
Creator: Breitenstein, Frank C.
Partner: Museum of the Western Prairie

Santa Fe Railroad Fill and Highway 44 Fill

Description: Caption says, "A-395 Railroad and Highway Relocation. Santa Fe Railroad fill, left, and Highway #44, right. Taken from top of Highway Station 77."
Date: October 13, 1941
Creator: Breitenstein, Frank C.
Partner: Museum of the Western Prairie

Rock Cut of Lugert Butte

Description: Caption says, "A-397 Railroad and Highway Relocation. Highway #44 - North along highway from Station 118 in rock cut to cut in Lugert Butte."
Date: October 13, 1941
Creator: Breitenstein, Frank C.
Partner: Museum of the Western Prairie

Concrete Culvert

Description: Caption says, "A-399 Railroad and Highway Relocation. Santa Fe Railroad - 6' x 5' reinforced concrete culvert at Station 148. Lugert Dike in the background."
Date: October 13, 1941
Creator: Breitenstein, Frank C.
Partner: Museum of the Western Prairie

Rock Slide

Description: Caption says, "A-413 Railroad and Highway Relocation. Slide on Santa Fe Railroad Relocation. Seepage area Station 69 to 70 - 50."
Date: October 27, 1941
Creator: Breitenstein, Frank C.
Partner: Museum of the Western Prairie

Lima Shovel and Hugg Dump Truck

Description: Caption says, "A-415 Railroad and Highway Relocation. Lima shovel and Hugg dump trucks excavating gravel in gravel pit, one-half mile west of Rock quarry."
Date: October 27, 1941
Creator: Breitenstein, Frank C.
Partner: Museum of the Western Prairie

Stockland Grader

Description: Caption says, "A-418 Railroad and Highway Relocation. A Stockland, Model 20 grader 6' blade and McCormick Deering Farmall tractor grading surface on Santa Fe Railroad relocation."
Date: October 28, 1941
Creator: Breitenstein, Frank C.
Partner: Museum of the Western Prairie

Crews Drilling Holes

Description: Caption says, "A-434 Four wagon drilling crews drilling holes in hard granite in Highway No. 44 cut at Station 68."
Date: November 7, 1941
Creator: Breitenstein, Frank C.
Partner: Museum of the Western Prairie

Panorama 1 of 9

Description: Caption says, "A-436 View from top of mountain south of dam showing road to Borrow Area "N" for North Dike, in right background. Panorama No. 1 of 9 covering 360 degrees. South of Glass Mountain to Quartz Mountain Park."
Date: November 8, 1941
Creator: Breitenstein, Frank C.
Partner: Museum of the Western Prairie

Panorama 3 of 9

Description: Caption says, "A-438 Present Lugert Dam and Lake Altus. Lugert Dike at right beyond lake, East Dike beyond Lugert Dike. Panorama No. 3 of 9."
Date: November 8, 1941
Creator: Breitenstein, Frank C.
Partner: Museum of the Western Prairie

Panorama 5 of 9

Description: Caption says, "A-440 Santa Fe Railroad and Highway 44 Relocation Area. Panorama No. 5 of 9, Highway 44 to Rock Quarry."
Date: November 8, 1941
Creator: Breitenstein, Frank C.
Partner: Museum of the Western Prairie

Panorama 7 of 9

Description: Caption says, "A-442 Panorama No. 7 of 9. Saddle, Station 61 west toward bridge. Part of new Highway 44 at extreme right."
Date: November 8, 1941
Creator: Breitenstein, Frank C.
Partner: Museum of the Western Prairie

Panorama 9 of 9

Description: Caption says, "A-444 Panorama No. 9 of 9. Farming area north of intersection shown in A-443."
Date: November 8, 1941
Creator: Breitenstein, Frank C.
Partner: Museum of the Western Prairie

Drillers in Safety Ropes

Description: Caption says, "A-484 Driller with safety ropes working on rock-cut on Highway #44, vicinity of Station 68."
Date: November 24, 1941
Creator: Breitenstein, Frank C.
Partner: Museum of the Western Prairie
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