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[Photograph 2012.201.B0979.0711]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Striking employee at the Oklahoma Cotton Co-op Compress at Altus have charged this trailer house behind the compress is being used to shelter a number of the illegal aliens they claim have been hired to keep the plant in operation during a union walkout."
Date: January 15, 1980
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0979.0709]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Picket trudge the line at the Oklahoma Cooperative Cotton Compass at Altus, where nearly 100 union workers have been on strike since Jan. 8 in a contract dispute."
Date: 1980
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0144.0662]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Fluffy bolls of soft, white cotton are ready to be plucked as 'first-time over' harvesting increases in cotton-producing counties of southwestern Oklahoma."
Date: September 21, 1980
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B1213.0384]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Wading was one form of locomotion for Altus residents after more than six inches of rain overloaded city storm drains to produce lakes in residential streets like this one. The town of Blair, also in Jackson Co., received over 8 inches of rain."
Date: May 16, 1980
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society
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