Iconic dust bowl photograph
Arthur Rothstein photographer
Title: Farmer and sons walking in the face of a dust storm. Cimarron County, Oklahoma
Creator(s): Rothstein, Arthur, 1915-1985, photographer
Date Created/Published: 1936 Apr.
Medium: 1 negative ; 8 x 10 inches or smaller.
1 photographic print ; 8 x 10 in.
Summary: Photo shows the Dust Bowl area.
Reproduction Number: LC-DIG-ppmsc-00241 (digital file from print) LC-USZ62-11491 (b&w film copy neg. from print) LC-USZC4-4840 (color film copy transparency from print)
Rights Advisory: No known restrictions on images made by the U.S. government; images copied from other sources may be restricted. For information, see U.S. Farm Security Administration/Office of War Information Black & White Photographs(www.loc.gov/rr/print/res/071_fsab.html)
Call Number: FSA/OWI COLL - H 167 [item] [P&P] LC-USF34- 004052 LOT 1536 (corresponding photographic print)
Other Number: H 167
Repository: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, DC 20540 USA hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print
Notes:
Digital file made from the original print, not the original negative.
Title and other information from caption card.
Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944.
More information about the FSA/OWI Collection is available at hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.fsaowi
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.
Original negative not on shelf; may no longer exist, 8-96.
Subjects:
Farmers.
Fathers & children.
United States--Oklahoma--Cimarron County.
Dust storms--Oklahoma
Format:
Film negatives.
Photographic prints.
Collections:
Farm Security Administration/Office of War Information Black-and-White Negatives
Part of: Farm Security Administration - Office of War Information Photograph Collection
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