Oklahomans traveling by automobile to California during the Dust Bowl

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Description

View of Oklahomans traveling by car to California during the Dust Bowl. Belongings are secured to running board of car. Handwritten on front: "More Oklahomans reach Calif. via the cotton fields of Ariz." Handwritten on back: "Automobile travel." Printed on back: "The automobile was often the only hope for the future to many families fleeing from the Dust Bowl in the Southwest during the depression years of the 1930's. Many of these families left their homes in Oklahoma, Kansas, Arkansas, etc. for a better life in California."

Details

Resource ID:: na003711
Subject:: Automobile travel; Automobiles; Dust Bowl Era, 1931-1939; Photographic prints
Date:: 1931-1939
Format:: 1 photographic print ; 8 x 10 in.
Department:: National Automotive History Collection
Collection:: Lazarnick Collection
Location:: Automobile travel
Copyright:: Physical rights are retained by DPL. Copyright is retained in accordance with U.S. copyright laws.