SMOKE OVER OKLAHOMA - THE RAILROAD PHOTOGRAPHS OF PRESTON GEORGE/Veenendaal Freight Trains Collins from 1949 through 1976

Collins from 1949 through 1976 are also included to complete the coverage from the Hudson River to western New York State

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the photographs are accompanied by the recollections of many of the photographers represented

SMOKE OVER OKLAHOMA - THE RAILROAD PHOTOGRAPHS OF PRESTON GEORGE/Veenendaal Freight Trains Collins from 1949 through 1976Oklahoma 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 Georges work, his black and white photographs constitute a striking visual documentary of steam driven railroading in its brief