Farmer and sons walking in the face of a dust storm. Cimarron County, Oklahoma – Antique Print
(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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Farmer and sons walking in the face of a dust storm. Cimarron County, Oklahoma comes to life in this historic photograph, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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Farmer and sons walking in the face of a dust storm. Cimarron County, Oklahoma
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Few pictures from the Dust Bowl show family and weather so plainly: a farmer and his sons walk into a wall of blowing soil in Cimarron County, in the Oklahoma panhandle, in April 1936. The county sat in the heart of the drought-stricken southern plains, where years of dry weather and plowed-up grassland left topsoil loose enough for winds to lift it into huge dark clouds. The negative was later transferred to the Office of War Information's Overseas Picture Division in 1944, and the image was published in the Library of Congress's *Eyes of the Nation* history. Its stark composition, with the figures bent forward against the sky, has made it a familiar picture of rural hardship in the 1930s.
| Created / published | 1936 Apr. |
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| Medium | 1 negative ; 8 x 10 inches or smaller.1 photographic print ; 8 x 10 in. |
| Genre | Film negatives.Photographic prints. |
| Notes | Title and other information from caption card. Digital file made from the original print, not the original negative. United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944. Published in: Eyes of the nation : a visual history of the United States / Vincent Virga and curators of the Library of Congress ; historical commentary by Alan Brinkley. New York : Knopf, 1997. Published in: Viewpoints; a selection fromthe pictorial collections of the Library of Congress ... Washington : Library of Congress ..., 1975, no. 137. |
| Subjects | Fathers & children. Farmers.United States--Oklahoma--Cimarron County. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 920 × 900 px |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-218693 |
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