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[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.B0242.0551]

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
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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.B0242.0561]

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
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Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0242.0575]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "IN TALL COTTON is Harvey Loftis of Frederick . The cotton harvest is in full swing in Tillman County. About 40 percent of the crop has been harvested .."
Date: November 16, 1960
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Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0242.0563]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "COTTON-PICKING migrant workers swarm over fields northeast of Altus where the 1961, Jackson County cotton harvest is in full swing. More than 7,000 workers were toiling round the clock last week, and Altus employe service said by mid-October 30,000 pickers will be in Oklahoma fields. Nearly 25,000 bales of cotton had been harvested, the Altus office reported."
Date: October 2, 1961
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Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0242.0537]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Arthur Bridal, left, and, R. G. Beck, who farm near Cashion, look at stunted cotton and bare soil on the land below one of the upstream dams on Barnitz Creek watershed in Custer County."
Date: September 6, 1963
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Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0242.0520]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Acre are spread out over a former airfield near Olustee in Jackson county. About 10,000 bales of cotton produced by members of Oklahoma Cotton Co- operative Assn. are stored here."
Date: November 3, 1963
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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

[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
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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
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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.B0242.0580]

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.B0242.0535]

Description: Caption: "FIRST COTTON of the season in Jackson County is examined by Elmer O'Rear, manager of the Davis gin, Altus. The load, which came in over the weekend, was earliest O'Rear could recall. Farm officials say Jackson's irrigated cotton is in top condition."
Date: August 5, 1963
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Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0242.0549]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Leading candidates to step into Joe Don Looney's shoes at left halfback for Oklahoma are Larry Shields (left) and Jackie Cowan."
Date: September 3, 1963
Creator: Cobb, Dick
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Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society
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