[Photograph 2012.201.B0360.0434]

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Pete Lassiter, 41, a pilot at Altus Air Force base, has parked a motor home near the tent and has been spending his annual leave helping promote the tent's events."
Date: September 15, 1990
Creator: Sisney, Steve
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.B1085.0084]

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Republic Gypsum Co.'s flagship operation is the Duke wallboard factory. At left is a crusher that turns gypsum into powder."
Date: September 24, 1985
Creator: Southerland, Paul B.
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B1085.0085]

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Workers watch upper and lower layers of paper on the new line, as finished board moves along. Top speed is 200 feet per minute. (Republic Gypsum Co. in Duke, Okla.)"
Date: September 24, 1985
Creator: Southerland, Paul B.
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B1085.0086]

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Slurried gypsum is pressed between two layers of heavy paper. The assembly line at Republic Gypsum Co. is tended by Wayman Weldon."
Date: September 24, 1985
Creator: Southerland, Paul B.
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B0312B.0096]

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Trena Jones teaches horse and children."
Date: September 13, 1985
Creator: Schoonover, Vic
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B1277.0151]

Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Jim Teel"
Date: September 21, 1982
Creator: unknown
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B0384.0091]

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Janie Ortega, as the Altus Bulldog, cheers her team on to victory."
Date: September 11, 1981
Creator: McDaniel, David
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B1166.0355]

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Eldorado farmer Ted Sheehan surveys land along the Red River he says he has lost to Texans."
Date: September 22, 1980
Creator: Long, Paul
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B0144.0661]

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Cotton harvesting is on the upswing in southwestern Oklahoma."
Date: September 21, 1980
Creator: unknown
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B0144.0662]

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Fluffy bolls of soft, white cotton are ready to be plucked as 'first-time over' harvesting increases in cotton-producing counties of southwestern Oklahoma."
Date: September 21, 1980
Creator: unknown
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B1073.0462]

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "The weed-choked headquarters of the Missouri, Kansas & Texas Railroad line in Altus could be abandoned and left to Mother Nature's whims if railroad proposals to cancel the Oklahoma line are approved."
Date: September 2, 1979
Creator: unknown
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B0144.0666]

Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Workers on the Bob Kiker farm west of Altus this week harvested the first bale of Oklahoma's 1978 cotton crop."
Date: September 20, 1978
Creator: unknown
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B0144.0673]

Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Workers on the Bob Kiker farm west of Altus this week harvested the first bale of Oklahoma's 1978 cotton crop."
Date: September 20, 1978
Creator: unknown
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B0144.0682]

Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "A crop duster makes a low pass over a Jackson County cotton field as aerial spraying continues at a feverish pace to protect what is expected to be the best state crop in recent years."
Date: September 12, 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.B0144.0651]

Caption: "Altus cotton which went into the first bale of the season to arrive at an Altus gin Friday is gathered by farmer Warren 'Corky' Bryce and his four-row stripper in his 30-acre patch west of Altus."
Date: September 24, 1976
Creator: Long, Paul
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B0137.0085]

Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company.
Date: September 18, 1976
Creator: Klock, Roger
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B0137.0086]

Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company.
Date: September 18, 1976
Creator: Klock, Roger
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B0137.0087]

Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company.
Date: September 18, 1976
Creator: Klock, Roger
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B0137.0088]

Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company.
Date: September 18, 1976
Creator: Klock, Roger
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B0137.0089]

Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company.
Date: September 18, 1976
Creator: Klock, Roger
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B0137.0090]

Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company.
Date: September 18, 1976
Creator: Klock, Roger
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B0137.0091]

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "As for the farmer-rancher committee, Altus wheat farmer and association board member Ed Cleveland said Carter wants to know what Oklahomans are thinking, and "we're very anxious to give him that mood and feeling."
Date: September 18, 1976
Creator: Klock, Roger
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History