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[Photograph 2012.201.B0242.0582]

Description: Caption: "COTTON PICKIN' MACHINES HAVE MOVED INTO SEVERAL IRRIGATED fields in Jackson County for the fall harvest. Two Altus gin spokesmen said they have received 730 bales of cotton so far, only 32 of them hand picked. Farmers in the area say temperatures have been "just what the cotton ordered allowing lower bolls to dry out and giving late cotton a chance for rapid maturing."
Date: October 23, 1968
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Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0242.0588]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "AUTUMN MEANS COTTON TIME in Jackson County as evidenced by these bales rolling into the Oklahoma Cotton Co-operative Compress near Altus. J. D. Fleming , manager of the compress, said 97,000 bales of cotton from 54 gins in a 140- square-mile area of Oklahoma and Texas already have been received and 120,000 more are expected before the season ends.."
Date: December 16, 1968
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Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0242.0527]

Description: Caption: "COTTON SEED MOUNTAIN rises at the Hollis cotton oil mill as testimony to southwest Oklahoma 's cotton crop. Harvest has taxed storage facilities at both Altus and Hollis and forced the outside mountains."
Date: December 29, 1968
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Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society
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