Smoke Over Oklahoma: The Railroad Photographs of Preston George

by George Preston and Augustus J. Veenendaal Jr.

Oklahoma was in the throes of the Great Depression when Preston George acquired a cheap Kodak folding camera and took his first photographs of steam locomotives. As depression gave way to world war, George kept taking pictures, now with a Graflex camera that could capture moving trains. In this first book devoted solely to George's work, his black-and-white photographs constitute a striking visual documentary of steam-driven railroading in its...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 080615568X
• ISBN13: 9780806155685
• Release Date: January 2017
• Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 1.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 11.1" x 8.1"