Dust storm – Antique Print
![Dust storm, [no date recorded on caption card] — antique lithograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/fe/fe88e8804a96-L.webp)
(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.)
Description
This rare antique lithograph captures Dust storm in remarkable detail. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
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Dust storm
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Unlike many pictures on this board, this lithograph is titled for the storm itself, a dust storm rendered as the central event. The record gives no date, but the caption tracings connect it to the Dust Bowl, the drought and wind erosion that swept the southern Great Plains in the 1930s. Those storms buried fields and farmhouses and drove many families to leave, and the tracings' references to emigration and wagons point to that exodus. Robert Riggs signed the print in pencil, so it is worth looking for how the artist shows the wind and the people caught in it.
| Created / published | [no date recorded on caption card] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print : lithograph. |
| Notes | Lithograph by Robert Riggs, 1896- . Initial on stone. Signed in pencil. Pennell Fund. This record contains unverified data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Storms; Dust Bowl; Farms...; Emigration; Wagons. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,494 × 1,536 px · prints to 5 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-148364 |
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