White migrant family in their automobile east of Fort Gibson, Muskogee County, Oklahoma – Antique Wall Art
(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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This historic photograph of White migrant family in their automobile east of Fort Gibson, Muskogee County, Oklahoma brings a moment of history to your wall. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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White migrant family in their automobile east of Fort Gibson, Muskogee County, Oklahoma
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Taken east of Fort Gibson in Muskogee County in June 1939, this picture shows a white migrant family with their automobile, a familiar sight on Oklahoma roads during the years of drought and farm loss. Photographers working for the Farm Security Administration documented families like this across the Plains and Southwest, many of them traveling in search of farm work. The image survives as a 35 mm nitrate negative, a format that was widely used then but is fragile today. Its transfer by the Office of War Information in 1944 helped preserve it in the Library of Congress collection.
| Created / published | 1939 June. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 negative : nitrate ; 35 mm. |
| Genre | Nitrate negatives. |
| Notes | Title and other information from caption card. United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944. |
| Subjects | Families.United States--Oklahoma--Muskogee County--Fort Gibson. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,536 × 1,111 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-148741 |
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