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[Photograph 2012.201.B0144.0653]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Oklahoma's cotton harvest is more than 70 per cent complete, far ahead of the 51 per cent at this time last year and unginned cotton has been piling up at state gins."
Date: 1975
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

BASEMENT BOX 67.0447

Description: Photograph taken during daylight of the charred wreckage of a burned building and gas pumps. Caption: "Jackson County Landmark established in 1890 - the Martha Mercantile Store - was destroyed by fire Wednesday after the building apparently was struck by a bolt of lighting. The longtime general merchandise store, which had added a gas station for modern times, was owned by Mrs. C. H. Doughty. She estimated loss at $25,000."
Date: May 15, 1969
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

BASEMENT BOX 67.0448

Description: Photograph of a firefighter extinguishing a gas station on fire. Caption: "Firefighters battle Sunday blaze at a Martha service station. Officials believe children playing with fireworks accidentally may have started the blaze."
Date: March 14, 1971
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0383.0184]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "The lesson of the extinct passenger pigeon must never be forgotten," said Ft. Sill biologist Gene Stout as a nearly five-acre wilderness area was recently dedicated to Martha."
Date: August 18, 1977
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0383.0183]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "The Postal Service is looking for a suitable site to build and lease a new post office in the Martha, Okla. community, in northwest Jackson County, to replace this facility."
Date: March 12, 1979
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0383.0186]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "After worshippers together for nearly a century, the dwindling congregation of the Martha Methodist Church in Jackson County is disbanding."
Date: July 8, 1981
Creator: Long, Paul
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B1213.0130]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "The aftermath of a dust storm left farm equipment on the E.R. Russell farm, south of Martha in Jackson County, with inches of sand drifted around it."
Date: February 23, 1976
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society
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