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Missouri, Kansas & Texas (MKT) "Katy" 596 & 530

Description: A photograph postcard showing the Missouri, Kansas & Texas (MKT) "Katy" 596 & 530, 2-6-0's, approaching Altus, OK, northbound with 41 cars, 30 mph. These were probably empties returning for another load of wheat. Track is now owned by State of Oklahoma-but operated by Katy.
Date: June 15, 1946
Creator: George, Preston
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

Missouri, Kansas & Texas (MKT) "Katy" 555

Description: A photograph postcard showing the Missouri, Kansas & Texas (MKT) "Katy" 555, 2-6-0, posed by the hostler for photo at Altus, OK. The accomodating hostler often posed enginers for me with rods at the bottom of the wheels. These engines pulled freight between Wichita Falls, TX, and the Oklahoma panhandle.
Date: June 15, 1946
Creator: George, Preston
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0228.0670]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Four southwestern Oklahoma senior girls have been designated as winners of Good Citizens awards y the Daughters of the American Revolution for the present school year."
Date: February 15, 1960
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0152.0092]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Backing up the North Fork of Red river the lake formed by the Altus-Lugert project will eventually irrigate more than 60,000 acres in Jackson, Greer and Tillman counties."
Date: August 15, 1946
Creator: Broun, Robin
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0242.0551]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "ALTUS - They're still harvesting last year's cotton here in Jackson County, but it's the cotton formerly left for waste after being passed over by mechanical pickers."
Date: February 15, 1962
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0240.0063]

Description: Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Members of an Altus Air Force Base crew credited with saving a stricken fighter plane over Vietnam are ( from left) 1-Lt. ERNEST Copher, Maj. Amherst Lamb, Capt. George Yancey and T-Sgt. Larry hill"
Date: July 15, 1968
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0242.0552]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "ALTUS- They's still harvesting last year's cotton here in Jackson County, but it's the cotton formerly left for waste after being passed over by mechanical pickers."
Date: February 15, 1962
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0242.0547]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "The Agricultural Marketing Service reported Tuesday that Oklahoma's cotton harvest is one third pulled. But it was still a mad rush in most fields to get the cotton into gins.."
Date: October 15, 1963
Creator: State Photo
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society
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