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[Photograph 2012.201.B0152.0018]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Giant draft tubes will send water back into the Grand river after it goes through 20,000 horsepower turbines at the $20,000,000 Grand River dam in northeastern Oklahoma."
Date: July 11, 1939
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0152.0021]

Description: Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Buttresses are beginning to rise on the Grand river dam. When completed, they will tower an average of 150feet above bedrock."
Date: July 6, 1939
Creator: Grand River Dam Authority
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0152.0028]

Description: Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Almost tiny by comparison with the buttresses they form, the individual units into which concrete is poured on the Grand River dam are 20 feet by 16 feet, made of steel."
Date: July 6, 1939
Creator: Grand River Dam Authority
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0152.0036]

Description: Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Excavation is proceeding rapidly on the power house sector, enclosed by a 40-foot high steel cofferdam. The Grand River power house will contain four 20,000 hp turbines, which will turn four 16,000 kva generators."
Date: July 6, 1939
Creator: Grand River Dam Authority
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0152.0041]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Dams - Grand River Vinita, Okla. -- Sweeping view of the excavation work for the Grand river dam, looking east from the bluff on the west back of the river."
Date: 1938
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0152.0048]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "View of the Grand River looking up stream from the west bank of the dam. Note; the high banks of the river. A section of the - coffer dam is shown in the lower right corner of the picture. The hydroelectric power plant will be located beside this bluff."
Date: 1938
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0402.0234]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Josh Lee of Vinita on the right, is shown with his campaign manager, H. J. Schroers, who also was the manager for Leon C. Phillips in northeastern Oklahoma."
Date: 1938
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0402.0235]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "JUST WAITING - The family of Farmer Josh Lee, 42-year-old Craig county farmer, sat on his front porch near Vinita Thursday night, waiting philosophically for returns in the race for president of the state board of agriculture."
Date: 1938
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society
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