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[Photograph 2012.201.B0053.0141]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Tangled wreckage and demolished rails resulted when more that 20 box cars of a 110-car Frisco freight train jumped the tracks four miles east of Altus early Tuesday morning."
Date: December 26, 1972
Creator: Long, Paul
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0144.0647]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Harvest of the state's cotton crop is continuing in southwestern Oklahoma despite diesel fuel shortages reportedly plaguing the area."
Date: December 7, 1973
Creator: Long, Paul
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0144.0669]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Cottonseed mountains are continuing to grow in Altus as this year's bumper cotton crop exceeds the available storage space and forces the open stockpiling of both cotton and cottonseed."
Date: December 20, 1973
Creator: Long, Paul
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0242.0621]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Rare sight in an age of machinery was caught over the weekend west of Altus in Jackson County, where a crew of about 20 is picking cotton by hand."
Date: December 14, 1970
Creator: Long, Paul
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0051.0561]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Crater Eight Feet Deep is searched by air policemen and rescue workers after a B-52 bomber crashed in a cotton field six miles north of Altus."
Date: December 11, 1958
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0242.0586]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Long rows of baled cotton waiting to go into storage at the Oklahoma Cooperative Association compress at Altus give a false impression of the cotton situation."
Date: December 6, 1966
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0242.0531]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "The spirit of Christmas brought a big smile Wednesday to a Jackson County farmer lying seriously ill in an Oklahoma City hospital. The remaining 200 acres of Bob Roudebush's 1,400 acres of cotton was harrested by neighbors who believe in "good will toward men"."
Date: December 22, 1964
Creator: Long, Paul
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0349.0295]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "LAKE ALTUS sprawling in the Quartz Mountain 18 miles north of Altus, has dwindled to 31,000 acre-feet from a maximum storage capacity of 103,000 acre-feet since irrigation began last summer and a maximum capacity of 140,000 acre-feet."
Date: December 7, 1970
Creator: Long, Paul
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0409.1191]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "This old Frisco locomotive, which logged over two million rail miles between 1926 and 1952, is one of the outstanding exhibits of Lawton's Museum of the Great Plains."
Date: December 4, 1976
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0144.0698]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "More than 20,000 bales of cotton are stacked outside the Oklahoma Cotton Cooperative Association Compress at Altus where officials are using outdoor storage to take advantage of the mild weather, saving sheltered spots for the onset of bad weather."
Date: December 21, 1979
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0422B.0101]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "SUSPECTED LSD and narcotics paraphernalia seized by Jackson County officers during raids Friday night in Altus is examined by Asst. Dist. Atty. Bob MacDonald, left, and Sheriff Joe Boaldin."
Date: December 12, 1970
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B1263.0227]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Despite steadily worsening weather, a holiday atmosphere pervaded Altus Air Force Base where the first operational C5, cargo airplane was on public display Thursday."
Date: December 18, 1969
Creator: Taylor, Robert
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society
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