Esther Bubley
American, 1921–1998
F.C. Nelson, Commissioner; Cecil Faris, Mayor; and H.W. Coleman, Commissioner, Town Hall, Tomball, Texas
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Esther Bubley
American, 1921–1998May 1945
F.C. Nelson, Commissioner; Cecil Faris, Mayor; and H.W. Coleman, Commissioner, Town Hall, Tomball, Texas
Esther Bubley American, 1921–1998 →gelatin silver (developing-out-paper) prphotographic process
Date
May 1945
Medium
Gelatin silver print
Dimensions
25.1 × 33.5 cm (9 15/16 × 13 1/4 in.)
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Location
Chicago, IL
Credit
Photographic Society Fund
After first working as a darkroom assistant for Roy Stryker’s Office of War Information (OWI) during World War II, Esther Bubley was assigned to take pictures of the home front for propagandistic purposes. In 1943 Stryker resigned from the OWI and began work on a public–relations project for the Standard Oil Company. In this new role, Stryker sent Bubley and other photographers across the United States to document the booming oil industry and illustrate its positive impact on everyday life. In 1945 Bubley went on assignment to Tomball, Texas, a town nicknamed in the mid–1930s “Oiltown U.S.A., ” where she took this photograph.
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