An oil-field worker in Oklahoma, 1939. Photo by Russell Lee[American Memory link] to locate this image, use search terms: oil, worker, Oklahoma
Showcasing some of the 160,000 images taken between 1935 and 1944 by government-hired photographers. (If you were to look at 100 of them per day, every day, you'd need more than four years to view them all).
An oil-field worker in Oklahoma, 1939. Photo by Russell Lee
