[Photograph 2012.201.B0144.0694]

Caption: "there's a mountain of cottonseed at the Altus Cotton Oil Mill and it's getting bigger every day."
Date: January 3, 1980
Creator: unknown
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B0262.0236]

Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company.
Date: June 27, 1980
Creator: Albright, Bob
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B0979.0711]

Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Striking employee at the Oklahoma Cotton Co-op Compress at Altus have charged this trailer house behind the compress is being used to shelter a number of the illegal aliens they claim have been hired to keep the plant in operation during a union walkout."
Date: January 15, 1980
Creator: unknown
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B0979.0709]

Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Picket trudge the line at the Oklahoma Cooperative Cotton Compass at Altus, where nearly 100 union workers have been on strike since Jan. 8 in a contract dispute."
Date: 1980
Creator: unknown
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.B0144.0614]

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "This dryland cotton field southeast of Altus shows the effects of this summer's heat wave and drought."
Date: August 31, 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.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.B0366B.0315]

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Remains of the old town of Lugert are beginning to emerge as the water level drops in Altus."
Date: August 24, 1980
Creator: unknown
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B1213.0383]

Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "A deluge topping six inches overloaded Altus storm drains to produce street lakes like this one."
Date: May 16, 1980
Creator: unknown
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B1213.0384]

Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Wading was one form of locomotion for Altus residents after more than six inches of rain overloaded city storm drains to produce lakes in residential streets like this one. The town of Blair, also in Jackson Co., received over 8 inches of rain."
Date: May 16, 1980
Creator: unknown
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B1349.0500]

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Two-year-old Bradley Wathen helps mother Terry with the daily feeding."
Date: January 13, 1980
Creator: James, Todd
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History