"Woody Guthrie" Photographer: Al Aumuller Circa: 1943 Al Aumuller was a staff photographer for the New York "World Telegram" and later "World Telegram and Sun" in the mid twentieth century. Woodrow Wilson "Woody" Guthrie was an American singer-songwriter and musician whose musical legacy includes hundreds of political, traditional, and children's songs, along with ballads and improvised works. Many of his songs are about his experiences in the Dust Bowl era during the Great Depression when he traveled with displaced farmers from Oklahoma to California and learned their traditional folk and blues songs, earning him the nickname the "Dust Bowl Troubadour".