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[Photograph 2012.201.B0224.0225]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "China will not be entirely helpless if Japan cuts the Burma road. This new road straight west from Chunking to the Asian section of India, begun a year ago as an emergency measure, is about one third complete. The terrain is rough, but so was the Burma road. Top is a view of the completed portion."
Date: February 20, 1942
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Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0320.0555]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Government Axes Carve a Tree- Slashing axes of the government's rural electrification administration resounded above the cemetery beneath this short leaf pine tree in northwestern Arkansas to carve a huge hole in the foliage for its electric transmission line."
Date: February 20, 1942
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Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0252.0111]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Approval of the city's defense training school by Washington Thursday cheered the hearts of a lot of persons but mine more than the three men pictured above going over their plans for remodeling the school building at 914-918 North Broadway."
Date: February 20, 1942
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Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0240.0475]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "When Mrs. Lou Cordell, mother of 11, was designated by the navy to christen the U. S. S. Choctaw, she brought a jug of well water from her farm in Durham, Okla., to Charleston, S. C."
Date: October 20, 1942
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Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0320.0551]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "DUPLICATE LINES TAKE WAR COPPER- Duplication of electric transmission lines which take copper - one of war's vital metals -is no bar to the government's rural electrification program."
Date: February 20, 1942
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Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0320.0554]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Sign of the Times- U. S. Foots the Bill - This "sign of the times is planted at the REA project near Beggs, and states that REA's new transmission line is financed by a loan from the Federal government's storehouse of tax money."
Date: February 20, 1942
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Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

Little Jac and Velma

Description: Photograph of Little Jac and Velma with a note that says, "To Mother Thompsom, Little Jac & Velma, Dec. 20, 1942. 10 months, 25 days. "Jeneva 1st wife" written on back.
Date: December 20, 1942
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Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society
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