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[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
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0242.0534]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "NO MECHANICAL, cotton picker went through this patch. It was hail and rain damage which stripped the cotton patch south of Putnam. Dewey County, Sunday night and left this scene of devastation."
Date: September 17, 1962
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
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0242.0524]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "COTTON CLEAN-UP in Jackson County neared an end Monday as fields buzzed with mechanical strippers such as this one operated by Joe Boyles. A week of fair weather should complete the 1963 harvest."
Date: January 6, 1964
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
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0242.0568]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "ALTUS- There's a group of marked people making an honest living here in Altus. They are the cotton graders and recorders at the government cotton classing office of the agriculture marketing service."
Date: November 25, 1961
Creator: Long, Paul
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0242.0533]

Description: Caption: "It's not a delta scene... but cotton bales up at the Bray gin in eastern Stephens county. T. B. Brooks, right, manager, and Frank Vinson of the state department of agriculture, look over a small portion of the gin's output this year."
Date: November 25, 1963
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0242.0546]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "COTTON HARVESTING in the Altus area was about 80 percent complete Tuesday, and farmers planned to wait until green bolls open before going to work with mechanical strippers. Very little opportunity for hand pullers exists in fields such as this, the Oklahoma State Employment Service said, since most of the crop will be harvested mechanically. About 100 bales were waiting to be processed at one gin Tuesday."
Date: November 29, 1961
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
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[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
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0242.0547]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "The Agricultural Marketing Service reported Tuesday that Oklahoma's cotton harvest is one third pulled. But it was still a mad rush in most fields to get the cotton into gins.."
Date: October 15, 1963
Creator: State Photo
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0242.0526]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "THE $ 1 million dollar Oklahoma Cotton Co-operative Compress at Altus was winding up its first week Saturday of "squeezing the air out of cotton." taking a big bite out of a 116,000-bale backlog."
Date: February 23, 1964
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
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B1267.0241]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Pickets Appeared Monday before three Oklahoma City neon sign companies, but neither management nor pickets wanted ay publicity. This one kept his face hidden fro the photographer behind the sign."
Date: October 10, 1960
Creator: Albright, Bob
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0907.0396]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Girls and Tickets make pretty booth-a "Miss Amerithon" booth, to be specific in downtown Oklahoma City Friday, Beverly Whitson, a candidate for Miss Oklahoma title this year, is operating the booth above."
Date: May 27, 1960
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society
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