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[Photograph 2012.201.B0242.0579]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "CHICKASHA- after three weeks of running day and night, an estimated 65 per cent of the cotton grown on some 17,000 acres in Grady County has been ginned, with an above-average grade and yield, Johnny Whitley, manager of the Moore Stauffer Co."
Date: November 7, 1969
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Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0242.0580]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "One of many passes is completed as this cotton spraying plane teams with the summer's hot weather to keep insects from damaging Oklahoma's potential bumper crops."
Date: September 4, 1969
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Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0242.0527]

Description: Caption: "COTTON SEED MOUNTAIN rises at the Hollis cotton oil mill as testimony to southwest Oklahoma 's cotton crop. Harvest has taxed storage facilities at both Altus and Hollis and forced the outside mountains."
Date: December 29, 1968
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Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0242.0588]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "AUTUMN MEANS COTTON TIME in Jackson County as evidenced by these bales rolling into the Oklahoma Cotton Co-operative Compress near Altus. J. D. Fleming , manager of the compress, said 97,000 bales of cotton from 54 gins in a 140- square-mile area of Oklahoma and Texas already have been received and 120,000 more are expected before the season ends.."
Date: December 16, 1968
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Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0242.0582]

Description: Caption: "COTTON PICKIN' MACHINES HAVE MOVED INTO SEVERAL IRRIGATED fields in Jackson County for the fall harvest. Two Altus gin spokesmen said they have received 730 bales of cotton so far, only 32 of them hand picked. Farmers in the area say temperatures have been "just what the cotton ordered allowing lower bolls to dry out and giving late cotton a chance for rapid maturing."
Date: October 23, 1968
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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
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Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0242.0529]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Almost left behind was Bobby Manning, the most serious cotton picking kid of them all, He didn't care if it was time to go, he wasn't leaving until his bag was full."
Date: October 25, 1967
Creator: Miller, Joe
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0242.0530]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "More fun then an Easter egg hunt agreed the Village Montessori School students who swarmed the cotton fields of Martin Graham's farm near Yukon."
Date: October 25, 1967
Creator: Miller, Joe
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.B0242.0576]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "The exception rather than the rule in Kiowa County is this cotton up to a stand on an Elk Creek bottom farm west of Hobart. Most upland cotton in the area still is unplanted ."
Date: June 19, 1966
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0242.0587]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "COTTON STORAGE IS AT A PREMIUM in the state, forcing the Oklahoma Cotton Co-op Association Compress in Altus to stack 25,000 bales of cotton on the ground out in the open. Superintendent Bob Rooker said Saturday that about 150,000 bales have been received from 49 gins in Oklahoma and Texas."
Date: January 16, 1966
Creator: Long, Paul
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0242.0532]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Southwestern Oklahoma cotton gins were humming with activity Tuesday as Oklahoma's sunny weather aided the cotton harvest."
Date: April 11, 1965
Creator: State Photo
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0242.0592]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "MORE COTTON then warehouse space is the situation at the Oklahoma Cotton Co-operative Compress at Altus where a flood of cotton has taxed storage facilities."
Date: January 5, 1965
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Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0242.0593]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "SOUTHWESTERN OKLAHOMA cotton gins have been "covered up all week as spring-like weather finally let the cotton harvest continue however Thursday's dampness halted the harvest long enough for ginners to catch up with the flood of incoming cotton for ginning.."
Date: December 30, 1964
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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.B0242.0591]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Overflowing river water has flooded this cotton field west of Cordell where harvests prospects before this week's onslaught of water was the best in three or four."
Date: November 5, 1964
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0242.0522]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "EARLY OPENING of cotton bolls in southwestern Oklahoma has caused a shortage of migrant workers, but Sam Taylor, southeast of Altus, is one of the luckier harvesters."
Date: September 8, 1964
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Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society
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