Wheat Crop on Mr. George Wickers Farm

Caption says, "A-3 Altus Project. Wheat crop on farm owned by Mr. George Wickers, one and one-half miles west of Blair, Oklahoma. , Section 25, T. 4N. , R. 21W. Jack McMillin in wheat 26 inches high. Average height of wheat raised was about 20 inches. Crop yield about 12 bushels to the acre. Bill Chaney on tractor."
Date: July 25, 1940
Creator: Breitenstein, Frank C.
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Carryall Unit

Caption says, "A-290 Borrow areas E35, E34-a, and E2, respectively, from immediate foreground to line of trees in background."
Date: August 25, 1941
Creator: Breitenstein, Frank C.
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Carryall Unit

Caption says, "A-289 East Dike, upstream toe of main of "B" section, 15 feet upstream from upstream toe. Looking north."
Date: August 25, 1941
Creator: Breitenstein, Frank C.
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Cutoff Trench

Caption says, "A-285 Cutoff trench area indicated by white lines at south end of proposed dam (upper right hand corner of picture) from Station 2+62.5."
Date: August 25, 1941
Creator: Breitenstein, Frank C.
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Cutoff Trench

Caption says, "A-286 Cutoff trench enclosed by white lines (upper left portion of picture). Looking north from Station 0+25."
Date: August 25, 1941
Creator: Breitenstein, Frank C.
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Rock Ridge and Cutoff Trench

Caption says, "A-287 Telephoto from Station 0+25 showing north end of cutoff trench from lowest point in low area of rock ridge."
Date: August 25, 1941
Creator: Breitenstein, Frank C.
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Rocky Surface in Cutoff Trench

Caption says, "A-288 Detail photograph from Station 1+00 showing rocky surface in lowest point in low area in cutoff trench."
Date: August 25, 1941
Creator: Breitenstein, Frank C.
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B0423.0132]

Photograph taken for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper.
Date: August 25, 1943
Creator: unknown
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

St. Louis & San Francisco (SLSF) "Frisco" 1109

A photograph print (& Negative)showing the St. Louis and San Francisco (SLSF) "Frisco" 1109, 4-6-0, on No. 403, west of Headrick, OK, 3 cars, 35 mph.
Date: September 25, 1948
Creator: George, Preston
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Rotation Hay and Pasture

Photograph of alfalfa with rye as nurse crop sown in fall of 1956 on deep sandy soil. Crop of hay to be used for soil improvement and hay crop. Mr. Boyde Cooper, soil Conservationist, in picture.
Date: April 25, 1957
Creator: Murrell, R. C.
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B0076.0288]

Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Maj. Carl Baswell, right , and Walden J. Evans talk it over."
Date: February 25, 1960
Creator: unknown
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B0242.0568]

Photograph taken for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "ALTUS- There's a group of marked people making an honest living here in Altus. They are the cotton graders and recorders at the government cotton classing office of the agriculture marketing service."
Date: November 25, 1961
Creator: Long, Paul
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B0152.0082]

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "More than a third of the active storage capacity of Lake Altus has been released from the dam downstream this month because of heavy inflow from the North Fork River."
Date: June 25, 1962
Creator: unknown
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B0304B.0561]

Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "L to R Col. William R. Brown, commander of 70th Bomb Wing, Clinton-Sherman AFB, Okla.; U. S. Rep. Mendel Rivers, and U. S. Rep. Jed Johnson Jr., during tour of the base 10/25/66."
Date: October 25, 1966
Creator: unknown
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B0242.0585]

Caption: "OUT OF STORAGE SPACE, an estimated 35,000 bales of cotton had to be moved to open ground at the Oklahoma Cotton Co-operative Compress at Altus as ideal harvesting weather helped to tax gin facilities to the limit."
Date: November 25, 1967
Creator: unknown
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B0288.0123]

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper.
Date: November 25, 1967
Creator: Derby, Paul
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B0288.0124]

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper.
Date: November 25, 1967
Creator: Derby, Paul
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B0288.0125]

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Pretty Altus band majorette Kathy Herring, a sophomore, gets a chance to perform at halftime."
Date: November 25, 1967
Creator: Derby, Paul
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B0277.0198]

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "FULL-COLOR TV is being readied at Altus High School, first school in Oklahoma to have a full-color system."
Date: October 25, 1970
Creator: Long, Paul
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B0409.1203]

Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "A step back into history is taken by a visitor to the Museum of the Western Prairie in Altus."
Date: February 25, 1974
Creator: unknown
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B0306B.0347]

Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "It took 63 years to get things started but the old Jackson County Courthouse in Altus is fast taking on a new look as workmen swarm over it inside and out doing remodeling and renovation work."
Date: October 25, 1974
Creator: unknown
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B0269.0078]

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Altus police chief Jim Hughes, left, joins Jerry and Shirley Neilson of Altus in a visit with state Sen. Bob Kerr after the Senate passed a bill Friday to buy a new fingerprint identification computer for the Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation."
Date: May 25, 1990
Creator: Beckel, Jim
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History