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[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.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
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
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0316.0413]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "school is peeping out of the earth as construction crews continue pouring concrete on the 170 by 135 foot structure which may be ready for use before the end of the current school term."
Date: February 11, 1965
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0242.0567]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "ALTUS- Only 5,000 bales of cotton were ginned in Oklahoma last week because of rain and mad, but farmers are expecting wide scale harvesting in 23 counties by Monday."
Date: November 24, 1961
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society
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