[Photograph 2012.201.B0106.0758]

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "The U. S. 283 bridge south of Altus is the only bridge in southwestern Oklahoma targeted for removal, out of 20 deficient structures cited in the statewide bridge replacement program."
Date: October 8, 1978
Creator: Long, Paul
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B0144.0644]

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Long lines of cotton wind around the lot of the Oklahoma Cotton Cooperative Compress company in Altus, where bales from 58 cotton gins are compressed tighter and shipped to Galveston, Tex., and to California ports."
Date: November 8, 1977
Creator: Long, Paul
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B0144.0681]

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "In home stretch is Oklahoma's cotton crop as bolls are maturing rapidly with harvest less than a month away in some areas."
Date: September 8, 1977
Creator: Long, Paul
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B0144.0658]

Caption: "A towering mound of cotton seed piles up outside an Altus cotton oil mill as harvesting of the 1977 crop, benefitted by recent balmy weather, progresses in high gear."
Date: November 8, 1977
Creator: Long, Paul
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B0243.0277]

Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Sue Gunkel (center) , 18, of 1018 W. Main St., Eldorado, Okla., receives a certificate for a $500 Henry Ford II Educational Scholarship from the Ford Motor Company Fund in recognition of achievements as a member of the National 4-H Club."
Date: December 8, 1967
Creator: unknown
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B0144.0680]

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Pushing up through rain-soaked southwestern Oklahoma fields are these young, tender cotton plants."
Date: May 8, 1977
Creator: Long, Paul
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B0240.0173]

Photograph taken for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Looks like this from the air. It is under construction near Olustee in Jackson County, to be operated by Eagle-Picher Mining Co., Miami."
Date: August 8, 1965
Creator: Long, Paul
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B0396.0658]

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Betty Newton, student at East Central State College, swings child in one of the migrant worker's camps at Altus."
Date: November 8, 1964
Creator: Long, Paul
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B1378.0386]

Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "President Eisenhower Thursday praised the service of a Decocrat, Harrington Wimberley, Altus, Okla., newspaper publisher, who is retiring as a member of the federal power commission."
Date: November 8, 1944
Creator: Stockwell, Bill
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B0396.0656]

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "The Rev. Ed Krueger, left, shovels sand in helping with drainage facilities in migrant workers camp in southwestern Oklahoma."
Date: November 8, 1964
Creator: Long, Paul
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B0383.0186]

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "After worshippers together for nearly a century, the dwindling congregation of the Martha Methodist Church in Jackson County is disbanding."
Date: July 8, 1981
Creator: Long, Paul
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B1289.0784]

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Tobacco stalks are inspected by John Gibson."
Date: September 8, 1962
Creator: unknown
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B1374.0009]

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "On a drive through Altus Air Force Base, building contractor Keith Williamson can point to one structure after another that his company has remodeled or improved."
Date: September 8, 1988
Creator: unknown
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B0396.0657]

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Sandra Howell and Corky Jewell, right, students at the University of Oklahoma, play old game of "ring around the rosy" with children. (migrant workers)"
Date: November 8, 1964
Creator: Long, Paul
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History