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[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
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0316.0413]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "school is peeping out of the earth as construction crews continue pouring concrete on the 170 by 135 foot structure which may be ready for use before the end of the current school term."
Date: February 11, 1965
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0051.0561]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Crater Eight Feet Deep is searched by air policemen and rescue workers after a B-52 bomber crashed in a cotton field six miles north of Altus."
Date: December 11, 1958
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B1261.0462]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Brig. Gen. Eugene B. Sterling, first officer above the rank of colonel ever to command the 443rd Military Airlift Wing at Altus Air Force Base, shares the occasion of his promotion with his wife."
Date: September 11, 1972
Creator: United States. Air Force.
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B1142.0236]

Description: Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Hermine Saccoccio, German born bride of an Altus Air Force base airman, helps with the family budget by working in an Altus drugstore."
Date: July 11, 1960
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

WPA Laborers at Rock Quarry

Description: Caption says, "A-390 Rock quarry. WPA laborers trimming face stone in stoneyard below rock quarry. Left is bull set breaking rock along chalk line. Right is hand set trimming edges of rock."
Date: October 11, 1941
Creator: Breitenstein, Frank C.
Partner: Museum of the Western Prairie

New Masonry Dam Face

Description: Caption says, "A-392 Rock quarry. End view of model section of face on New Masonry Dam. Model constructed in stoneyard below rock quarry."
Date: October 11, 1941
Creator: Breitenstein, Frank C.
Partner: Museum of the Western Prairie

Display in Orient Hotel

Description: Caption says, "5-AL-1189. Display in lobby of New Orient Hotel, Altus, Oklahoma, which was assembled for local Chamber of Commerce by County Extension workers and Bureau of Reclamation employees. This was shown during visit of Oklahoma City businessmen on booster trip to southwestern Oklahoma."
Date: October 11, 1949
Creator: George, P. W.
Partner: Museum of the Western Prairie

WPA Laborers at Rock Quarry

Description: Caption says, "A-389 Rock quarry. WPA laborers trimming face stone. Man at left is using a hand point for cutting high spots off side of rock. The man at the right is using a hand set for working along the edge."
Date: October 11, 1941
Creator: Breitenstein, Frank C.
Partner: Museum of the Western Prairie
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