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Guy Brisco on Fordson Tractor

Description: Caption says, "A-71 Official Photograph. Guy Brisco, an N.Y.A student of the Altus Junior College, operating a Fordson tractor during breaking ground operations on the experimental plot one mile north of the city of Altus,"
Date: March 10, 1941
Creator: Breitenstein, Frank C.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Museum of the Western Prairie

Mr. Myrl Gray

Description: Caption says, "A-72 Official Photograph. Mr. Myrl Gray at the outlet of the water supply pipe which delivers the water for irrigation of the experimental plot."
Date: March 10, 1941
Creator: Breitenstein, Frank C.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Museum of the Western Prairie

Trader Compress

Description: Caption says, "A-59 Altus Project. Photograph of the Trader Compress looking northwest across the water supply pond for the compress. The Trader Company was started in 1909 by the Trader Compress Company of Fort Worth, Texas. There are thirteen acres under shed with a storage capacity of 50,000 bales. Two presses of 100 bales each per hour. Altus is the center of the cotton belt and has three railroads. The Trader Compress is largest in the United States by volume of cutting. Mr. B. L. Anderson… more
Date: March 3, 1941
Creator: Breitenstein, Frank C.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Location: 34.630917 -99.346651
Partner: Museum of the Western Prairie

Storage of Altus Compress

Description: Caption says, "A-58 Altus Project. Photograph of the interior of one of the large storage sheds of the Altus Compress. The baled cotton received from the many gins throughout the area is rebaled in large presses which reduces the size of the bales about one-third. After passing thru the press the bales are stored in sheds like above, awaiting shipment. The total storage of the sheds of the Altus Compress is 16,500 bales."
Date: March 3, 1941
Creator: Breitenstein, Frank C.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Location: 34.633514 -99.337893
Partner: Museum of the Western Prairie

Altus City Park

Description: Caption says, "A-62 Official Photograph. The city park from the southwest section looking north toward the High School and Junior College building. The left foreground section is the gladioli beds and the right section the rose garden."
Date: March 3, 1941
Creator: Breitenstein, Frank C.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Location: None
Partner: Museum of the Western Prairie

Main Street of Altus

Description: Caption says, "A-69 Official Photograph. Looking south down Main Street from the top of the New Orient Hotel. At the right is the Court House Square and in the right background is the Leger Mills, the largest flour mill in this section of Oklahoma."
Date: March 8, 1941
Creator: Breitenstein, Frank C.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Location: 34.638964 -99.333859
Partner: Museum of the Western Prairie

Altus High School

Description: Caption says, "A-66 Official Photograph. The High School and Junior College building taken from the northwest corner of the grounds. A large stadium has been completed in the western section of the school grounds."
Date: March 3, 1941
Creator: Breitenstein, Frank C.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Location: 34.640519 -99.318150
Partner: Museum of the Western Prairie
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