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[Photograph 2012.201.B0242.0614]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Cotton harvest in Jackson brings these workers to a field owned by Bill Kiker of Altus, who last week delivered the county's first bale of cotton from this year's crop."
Date: October 7, 1975
Creator: Long, Paul
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[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
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0053.0150]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Loaded boxcars overturned Wednesday morning as a freight train and seven stray boxcars rammed together near Olustee killing four Frisco crewmen."
Date: June 4, 1970
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0106.0758]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "The U. S. 283 bridge south of Altus is the only bridge in southwestern Oklahoma targeted for removal, out of 20 deficient structures cited in the statewide bridge replacement program."
Date: October 8, 1978
Creator: Long, Paul
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0144.0644]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Long lines of cotton wind around the lot of the Oklahoma Cotton Cooperative Compress company in Altus, where bales from 58 cotton gins are compressed tighter and shipped to Galveston, Tex., and to California ports."
Date: November 8, 1977
Creator: Long, Paul
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0144.0649]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Pick up ricks is the name of the 'game' in the southwestern area of the state where cotton farmers are gathering the remnants of a record-breaking crop."
Date: February 4, 1974
Creator: Long, Paul
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0144.0651]

Description: Caption: "Altus cotton which went into the first bale of the season to arrive at an Altus gin Friday is gathered by farmer Warren 'Corky' Bryce and his four-row stripper in his 30-acre patch west of Altus."
Date: September 24, 1976
Creator: Long, Paul
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0144.0681]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "In home stretch is Oklahoma's cotton crop as bolls are maturing rapidly with harvest less than a month away in some areas."
Date: September 8, 1977
Creator: Long, Paul
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0152.0389]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Completion of Tom Steed Reservoir being built to supply municipal water to three thirsty southwestern Oklahoma cities, is being jeopardized by ever-increasing price rises in construction."
Date: 1975
Creator: Long, Paul
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society
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