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Robert Yarnall Richie (1908-1984) was an American photographer who worked as a free-lance commercial and industrial photographer, largely in Texas. Richie's work is significant for its artistic qualities as well as documentary information.

Richie had work published in Fortune magazine, Life magazine, Scientific American, Time magazine, National Geographic magazine and elsewhere, He also contributed photos to annual reports for Fortune 500 companies including General Motors, U.S. Steel, Gulf Oil, and Phelps Dodge, among many others. Richie may be best known for his oil production images in such areas as Texas, Louisiana, the Gulf of Mexico, and Saudi Arabia.

Richie was an avid pilot, and his life work includes thousands of aerial photographs taken worldwide, as well as many photos of airplanes and other aviation-related subjects.

Many of his photos are collected in the Robert Yarnall Richie Photograph Collection, held by the DeGolyer Library at Southern Methodist UniversityThe SMU archive contains corporate and industrial photographs made by Richie from 1932-1975. Many are online, and available at the SMU Central University Libraries Flickr site, at Flickr's Commons area with no copyright restrictions.