Original 1947 Associated Press wire photo measuring 9⅜ x 6⅛ inches. The caption is printed directly on the photograph. The image shows approximately 1,500 hurricane refugees arriving in Sebring, Florida, aboard a 32-car Florida East Coast Railroad freight train after evacuating the Lake Okeechobee region as a major Atlantic hurricane threatened Florida's Atlantic coast. Families carrying their belongings disembark from the boxcars in a remarkable documentary scene of mass evacuation. From the archive of a Pittsburgh area newspaper.
