[Photograph 2012.201.B0053.1123]
Description:
Photograph taken for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "It was almost 18 months ago when the Royce Chesher family of nine huddled over electric hot plates to keep warm. The gas had been turned off in their small home, and the snow was deep outside. But heat wasn't the only thing scarce for 'Smokey' Chesher, 38, his wife and seven children. Food and clothing ran a close second and third. And four weeks of job hunting had proven to the father that employment, too, was a rare thing…
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Date:
June 20, 1966
Creator:
Brown, Don
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Partner:
Oklahoma Historical Society