[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.8035]
Description:
Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "What happens to a hard-working family when oil flows from the cotton fields of their farm a few days before Thanksgiving and brings surprise riches? That is the story of an Oklahoma couple, Mr. and Mrs. J. I. Long, who bought a farm south of Elk City in 1907 and have struggled for a living there ever since. The family wirked and saved all through the hard, lean years. Crop failures and cyclones and dusty winds, and final…
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Date:
November 16, 1948
Creator:
Johnson, Bill
Partner:
Oklahoma Historical Society