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Mail boxes near Auburn, California. Notice the Japanese name. The Japanese are moving into this section on a subsistence farming basis as the older settlers who have not adjusted themselves to changing market conditions move out. Placer County, California

Los Angeles County, California. House of a Japanese farmer. Disposal of these buildings which are owned by Japanese but are on rented land has presented a problem because the land is often rented by white farmers who are adding to their own holdings and who consequently do not need the buildings

Los Angeles County, California. The evacuation of Japanese and Japanese-Americans from West coast areas, under United States Army war emergency order. Farmers inspecting crop of Japanese farmer who wants to sell out

Los Angeles County, California. The evacuation of Japanese and Japanese-Americans from West coast areas, under United States Army war emergency order. Japanese often own farm buildings on leased farm land. These buildings were difficult to sell because the land was often rented to white farmers who had no use for the buildings

Los Angeles County, California. The evacuation of Japanese and Japanese-Americans from West coast areas, under United States Army war emergency order. Farmers inspecting crop of Japanese farmer who wants to sell out

Los Angeles County, California. The evacuation of Japanese and Japanese-Americans from West coast areas, under United States Army war emergency order. Japanese often own farm buildings on leased farm land. These buildings were difficult to sell because the land was often rented to white farmers who had no use for the buildings

Los Angeles County, California. Furniture of a Japanese farmer who faces evacuation from West coast area under United States Army war emergency order. This farmer will try to sell his belongings; failing in that, he can store his goods, either privately or in a government warehouse

Los Angeles, California. The evacuation of Japanese-Americans from West coast areas under United States Army war emergency orders. White farmer inspecting the crop of a Japanese farmer. The Japanese wants to sell his crop

A group of men working on a piece of wood. Office of War Information Photograph

Mail boxes near Auburn, California. Notice the Japanese name. The Japanese are moving into this section on a subsistence farming basis as the older settlers who have not adjusted themselves to changing market conditions move out. Placer County, California

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Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944.

More information about the FSA/OWI Collection is available at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.fsaowi

Temp. note: usf34batch4

Film copy on SIS roll 1, frame 414.

Russell grew up in Ottawa, Illinois and went to the Culver Military Academy in Culver, Indiana. He earned a degree in chemical engineering from Lehigh University in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. He gave up a position as a chemist to become a painter and used photography as a precursor to his painting, but soon became interested in photography as media. His earliest subjects were Pennsylvanian bootleg mining and the Father Divine cult. In the fall of 1936, during the Great Depression, Lee was hired for the federally sponsored Farm Security Administration (FSA) photographic documentation project of the Franklin D. Roosevelt administration. He joined a team assembled under Roy Stryker, along with Dorothea Lange, Arthur Rothstein and Walker Evans. Lee created some of the iconic images produced by the FSA, including photographic studies of San Augustine, Texas in 1939, and Pie Town, New Mexico in 1940. Over the spring and summer of 1942, Lee was one of several government photographers to document the eviction of Japanese Americans from the West Coast, producing over 600 images of families waiting to be removed and their later life in various detention facilities.

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01/01/1940
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Russell Lee

Russell Lee for Farm Security Administration (FSA)
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Library of Congress
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No known restrictions. For information, see U.S. Farm Security Administration/Office of War Information Black & White Photographs http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/res/071_fsab.html

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