Object number:
A67.137.95625
Object name:
photograph
Title:
Picketing Oil Plant at Muskogee, Oklahoma
Maker:
Dorothea Lange
Date made:
June 27, 1938
Material / Technique:
gelatin silver print | glossy
Credit line:
Gift of Paul S. Taylor
Copyright status:
In Copyright
Copyright holder:
Oakland Museum of California
Content description:
sign on protestor states: Pure Oil Co. / UNFAIR / to Oil worker's / UNION Unable to find matching negative. Filed in Lange work print file #39 O with the following title and inscription - in Lange's hand (red pencil): Oklahoma and in unknown hand on contemporary file: see also oversized prints
Concepts:
picket; building; protest; fence; oil tank; brick; tank; labor protest; sign; activism
Places:
Oklahoma; Muskogee, Oklahoma
Organizations:
Pure Oil Company
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