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[Photograph 2012.201.B0242.0614]
Photograph taken for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Cotton harvest in Jackson brings these workers to a field owned by Bill Kiker of Altus, who last week delivered the county's first bale of cotton from this year's crop."
Date:
October 7, 1975
Creator:
Long, Paul
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
[Photograph 2012.201.B0053.0141]
Photograph taken for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Tangled wreckage and demolished rails resulted when more that 20 box cars of a 110-car Frisco freight train jumped the tracks four miles east of Altus early Tuesday morning."
Date:
December 26, 1972
Creator:
Long, Paul
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
[Photograph 2012.201.B0053.0150]
Photograph taken for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Loaded boxcars overturned Wednesday morning as a freight train and seven stray boxcars rammed together near Olustee killing four Frisco crewmen."
Date:
June 4, 1970
Creator:
unknown
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
[Photograph 2012.201.B0053.0146]
Photograph taken for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Huge cranes move into scene of a freight train boxcar collision in a massive clean-up operation near Olustee."
Date:
June 4, 1970
Creator:
Long, Paul
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
[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.B0144.0683]
Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Fleece-like cotton captured by the wind from a nearby gin frosts a farm fence near Rocky in southwestern Oklahoma."
Date:
1977
Creator:
Cook, J. Don
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
[Photograph 2012.201.B0144.0701]
Caption: "Sudden surge in the cotton harvest resulted in a backlog of work at this gin in Jackson County, but Sunday's worsening weather will bring another delay in this years on-again-off-again harvest."
Date:
1972
Creator:
unknown
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.B0144.0649]
Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Pick up ricks is the name of the 'game' in the southwestern area of the state where cotton farmers are gathering the remnants of a record-breaking crop."
Date:
February 4, 1974
Creator:
Long, Paul
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
[Photograph 2012.201.B0144.0690]
Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Farmers say there would be no Oklahoma cotton harvest without Mexican labor."
Date:
November 20, 1979
Creator:
Southerland, Paul
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
[Photograph 2012.201.B0149.0569]
Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper.
Date:
1976
Creator:
unknown
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
[Photograph 2012.201.B0144.0688]
Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "The presence in March of cotton-filled trailers at southwestern Oklahoma gins illustrate the effect of the harsh winter on the cotton harvest."
Date:
March 4, 1979
Creator:
unknown
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
[Photograph 2012.201.B0149.0571]
Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper.
Date:
1977
Creator:
unknown
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
[Photograph 2012.201.B0144.0677]
Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "There's one advantage to picking your cotton in March instead of December."
Date:
1973
Creator:
Long, Paul
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
[Photograph 2012.201.B0144.0676]
Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Cotton Crops should prosper in Jackson County's Lugert-Altus Irrigation District as a result of the latest release from Lake Altus."
Date:
July 21, 1972
Creator:
unknown
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
[Photograph 2012.201.B0149.0572]
Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Sen. Herschal Crow, D-Altus, said Gov. David Boren "made a serious commitment to members of the Senate to adequately staff existing penal facilities."
Date:
1976
Creator:
unknown
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.B0144.0650]
Caption: "Waiting in line for processing at the Farmers Union Co-op Gin at Martha in Jackson County are a large number of trailers filled with cotton."
Date:
January 21, 1975
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.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.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.B0152.0389]
Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Completion of Tom Steed Reservoir being built to supply municipal water to three thirsty southwestern Oklahoma cities, is being jeopardized by ever-increasing price rises in construction."
Date:
1975
Creator:
Long, Paul
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
[Photograph 2012.201.B0144.0656]
Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "This year's cotton harvest, after a slow, dry start, has been labeled fair by crop watchers across the country."
Date:
December 13, 1978
Creator:
Miller, Joe
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
[Photograph 2012.201.B0144.0555]
Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company.
Date:
November 12, 1978
Creator:
unknown
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History