Migrant Family and Their Automobile East of Fort Gibson, Oklahoma, 1939, by Russell W. Lee
Philbrook Museum of Art
Tulsa
Farm Security Administration photographer Russell Lee was inspired to travel to Oklahoma 75 years ago in 1939 in search of “Okie” subjects, or migrant families, like those tragically portrayed in John Steinbeck’s then-recently published novel The Grapes of Wrath.
