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[Photograph 2012.201.B0242.0541]

Description: Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "A 40- ACRE LAKE OF COTTON bales being stored southwest of Altus looks as if it were just disturbed by the wake of a fantastic ship (third and fourth rows). About 9,000 bales have been delivered to the Oklahoma Cotton CO- operative Association for processing on a 700-800 bale a day basis."
Date: October 23, 1963
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0242.0591]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Overflowing river water has flooded this cotton field west of Cordell where harvests prospects before this week's onslaught of water was the best in three or four."
Date: November 5, 1964
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Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0242.0532]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Southwestern Oklahoma cotton gins were humming with activity Tuesday as Oklahoma's sunny weather aided the cotton harvest."
Date: April 11, 1965
Creator: State Photo
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0242.0557]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Migrant worker pulls " burned-open" dryland cotton bolls southeast of Humphreys in Jackson County while a crop dusty goes about his business of spraying in field south of Altus.."
Date: September 5, 1962
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Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0242.0529]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Almost left behind was Bobby Manning, the most serious cotton picking kid of them all, He didn't care if it was time to go, he wasn't leaving until his bag was full."
Date: October 25, 1967
Creator: Miller, Joe
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
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
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0242.0585]

Description: Caption: "OUT OF STORAGE SPACE, an estimated 35,000 bales of cotton had to be moved to open ground at the Oklahoma Cotton Co-operative Compress at Altus as ideal harvesting weather helped to tax gin facilities to the limit."
Date: November 25, 1967
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0242.0561]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "With 15,000 to 20,000 migrant workers in southwestern Oklahoma fields, gins throughout this area were becoming swamped Thursday with cotton."
Date: September 29, 1961
Creator: Long, Paul
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0242.0575]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "IN TALL COTTON is Harvey Loftis of Frederick . The cotton harvest is in full swing in Tillman County. About 40 percent of the crop has been harvested .."
Date: November 16, 1960
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0242.0563]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "COTTON-PICKING migrant workers swarm over fields northeast of Altus where the 1961, Jackson County cotton harvest is in full swing. More than 7,000 workers were toiling round the clock last week, and Altus employe service said by mid-October 30,000 pickers will be in Oklahoma fields. Nearly 25,000 bales of cotton had been harvested, the Altus office reported."
Date: October 2, 1961
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society
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