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[Photograph 2012.201.B1073.0715]

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Workers are busy near Altus replacing rail on a line that southwestern Oklahoma farmers once feared would cut them off from key shipping points in Texas."
Date: May 14, 1978
Creator: Cobb, Richard
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B1036.0182]

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Thomas Pyle sits with his wife, Judy, and daughters Stacey, 3, and Marrisa, 1, in their Altus home. Pyle, who spent six years in North Vietnamese prison camps, wants to make sure those missing in action and their families are never forgotten."
Date: July 2, 1978
Creator: John, Lisa
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.B0144.0656]

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.B1374.0636]

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Altus cotton farmer Murry Williams said cotton growers have little to complain about after last year's bumper crop."
Date: March 24, 1978
Creator: Miller, Joe
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B1006.0097]

Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "The enclosed pool is heated for year-round fun."
Date: February 18, 1978
Creator: Oklahoma. Tourism and Recreation Department.
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

[Photograph 2012.201.B0144.0664]

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "A "cotton module" is loaded on a specially built trailer to be taken to a gin by Altus farmer Eddie Williams."
Date: October 19, 1978
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.B0144.0685]

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Cotton harvest is expected to be in full swing this week in southwestern Oklahoma after the first heavy frost of the season last Tuesday."
Date: October 4, 1978
Creator: unknown
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B0144.0697]

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Stacks of cotton bales ready for ginning are unloaded at the Oklahoma Cotton Cooperative Association Compress at Altus."
Date: December 11, 1978
Creator: unknown
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B0144.0699]

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Cotton modules wait to be processed at the Cotton Growers Gin Yard at Altus as cotton harvesting operations get into full swing."
Date: November 11, 1978
Creator: unknown
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B0164.0281]

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Numbered and ready, these dogs wait for the chance to show their stuff at the annual Texas-Oklahoma Wolf Hunters Association field trial and bench show, which concluded last weekend at the Brewer Brothers barn east of Eldorado in Jackson County."
Date: October 22, 1978
Creator: unknown
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B0271.0250]

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "(Tech Sgt.) Paul W. Hunt, who is 6-feet-2 and weighs about 300 pounds, is the second airman at Altus Air Force Base to be discharged this year for obesity, a base spokesman said."
Date: 1978
Creator: unknown
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B0409.1194]

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Sandblasting this early day steam locomotive are Museum of the Great Plains workers in Lawton."
Date: May 28, 1978
Creator: unknown
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B0409.1206]

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "This settlers' half dugout home is only one of the many displays at the Museum of the Western Prairie in Altus."
Date: January 28, 1978
Creator: unknown
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B0979.0710]

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Land is being cleared in Altus for the erection of six more warehouse at the Oklahoma Cotton Cooperative Compress to handle what officials expect will be a giant 1978 cotton crop."
Date: 1978
Creator: unknown
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B1073.0724]

Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "The rotted ties and warped track on the Katy line southeast of Altus have given strong indication for some time now that the days of rail service between the southwestern Oklahoma community and Burkburnett, Texas, are numbered."
Date: February 6, 1978
Creator: unknown
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B1098.0674]

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "A mock Atlas missile towers over the South City Park in Altus."
Date: December 3, 1978
Creator: unknown
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B1361.0822]

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Temperatures may be freezing outside, but it's always summer inside Western Oklahoma State College's new $500.000 'Natatorium, where workmen are putting final touches on the swimming pool before presentation to the Altus college's regents."
Date: January 22, 1978
Creator: unknown
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B1363.0398]

Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Crops such as this wheat nearing harvest at Altus may son be examined by special crop "doctors" if current trends continue."
Date: May 15, 1978
Creator: unknown
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B1363.0436]

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "A 15,000 -bushel pile of wheat stands outside the Farmers Co-op Elevator in Duke while farmers wait for the arrival of boxcars in which to ship the growing backlog out."
Date: June 21, 1978
Creator: unknown
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B1432.0181]

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Workers employed by Altus farmer Murray Williams load seed in an eight-row planter as area cotton farmers begin to gear up for spring planting."
Date: April 30, 1978
Creator: unknown
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History