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Prickly pears. A growth of these threatens to cover pastures of Sheridan County, Kansas. The FSA (Farm Security Administration) is allowing farmers to work off their grants by removal of these prickly pears

Prickly pears. A growth of these threatens to cover pastures of Sheridan County, Kansas. The FSA (Farm Security Administration) is allowing farmers to work off their grants by removal of these prickly pears

Farmer on FSA (Farm Security Administration) project, Sunflower Plantation, Merigold, Mississippi Delta. Picking up pecan nuts in project grove, project families are going to sell them. Mississippi

County supervisor talking to FSA (Farm Security Administration) borrower who is cultivating corn. Door County, Wisconsin

County supervisor talking to FSA (Farm Security Administration) borrower who is cultivating corn. Door County, Wisconsin

Leaves drift down on unused farm equipment. Auburn, California. This is a section which is rapidly declining because of changed market conditions. These fruit farmers raise varieties of plums and pears that are no longer acceptable to the eastern market

Farm scene on farm of FSA (Farm Security Administration) rehabilitation borrower Nyssa Heights, Oregon, Malheur County. The first year that this land on the Owyhee irrigation project is farmed it is impossible to grow any crops except hay. The farmers in

Farmer on FSA (Farm Security Administration) project, Sunflower Plantation, Merigold, Mississippi Delta. Picking up pecan nuts in project grove, project families are going to sell them. Mississippi

Destitute farm families come to FSA (Farm Security Administration) distributing depot to apply for food grant. Bakersfield, Kern County, California

Prickly pears. A growth of these threatens to cover pastures of Sheridan County, Kansas. The FSA (Farm Security Administration) is allowing farmers to work off their grants by removal of these prickly pears

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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

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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kansas sheridan county farms farmers nitrate negatives lot 432 russell lee photo pears farm security administration ultra high resolution high resolution office of war information united states history great depression library of congress
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01/01/1939
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Russell Lee

Russell Lee for Farm Security Administration (FSA)
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kansas
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Library of Congress
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https://www.loc.gov/
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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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Ceremonies - Camp Funston thru Camp Lee - Officer in Charge giving instructions to the men at Camp Funston, Fort Riley, Kansas

Cowhand scraping mud off his boots. Quarter Circle 'U' Ranch, Montana

Standard atlas of Rooks County, Kansas : including a plat book of the villages, cities and townships of the county, map of the state, United States and world, patrons directory, reference business directory and departments devoted to general information, analysis of the system of U.S. land surveys, digest of the system of civil government, etc. etc. /

Standard atlas of Lyon County, Kansas : including a plat book of the villages, cities and townships of the county, map of the state, United States and world : patrons directory, reference business directory and departments devoted to general information, analysis of the system of U.S. land surveys, digest of the system of civil government, etc. etc. /

Standard atlas of Rooks County, Kansas : including a plat book of the villages, cities and townships of the county, map of the state, United States and world, patrons directory, reference business directory and departments devoted to general information, analysis of the system of U.S. land surveys, digest of the system of civil government, etc. etc. /

Standard atlas of Rooks County, Kansas : including a plat book of the villages, cities and townships of the county, map of the state, United States and world, patrons directory, reference business directory and departments devoted to general information, analysis of the system of U.S. land surveys, digest of the system of civil government, etc. etc. /

Deister Farmstead, New Chickenhouse, Route 442, Stull, Douglas County, KS

Harvesting pears, Pleasant Hill Orchards. Washington, Yakima Valley. See general caption number 34

Son of white migrant eating lunch of blackberry pie along the highway east of Fort Gibson, Oklahoma

Ditch for sewer pipe at the FSA (Farm Security Administration) trailer camp for workmen at the Umatilla ordnance depot. Hermiston, Oregon

Applicants at registration tent on opening day of mobile unit (FSA - Farm Security Administration). Merrill, Klamath County, Oregon. General caption number 62

Freight train leaving Homestead, Montana

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kansas sheridan county farms farmers nitrate negatives lot 432 russell lee photo pears farm security administration ultra high resolution high resolution office of war information united states history great depression library of congress