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Book Title: Smoke over Oklahoma : the Railroad Photographs of Preston George
Number of Pages: 208 Pages
Language: English
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
Item Height: 0.7 in
Publication Year: 2017
Topic: United States / State & Local / Southwest (Az, NM, Ok, Tx), Railroads / History, Railroads / Pictorial, Artists, Architects, Photographers
Illustrator: Yes
Genre: Transportation, Biography & Autobiography, History
Item Weight: 32.1 Oz
Item Length: 8 in
Author: Augustus J. Veenendaal
Item Width: 11 in
Format: Hardcover
