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A little boy in a cowboy hat standing in the dirt - FSA / Office of War Information Photograph

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Title and other information from a possibly related negative. Image came to Library of Congress untitled. (There was no caption for this image in the FSA/OWI shelflist.)

Appears to be related to negative LC-USF33-013276-M1 http://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/fsa1998003487/PP/

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.

Large WWII photograph collection made with aid of image recognition.

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arizona yuma county yuma nitrate negatives russell lee photo farm security administration field day farmworkers community ultra high resolution high resolution office of war information united states history home front wwii great depression world war 2 library of congress wwii photographs
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1940 - 1945
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in collections

Russell Lee

Russell Lee for Farm Security Administration (FSA)

Armies in World War 2

Photograhs of the largest military conflict in history
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arizona
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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

label_outline Explore Farmworkers Community, Field Day, Yuma County

Two men sitting on a bench in front of a building, possibly related to: Son of sharecropper sitting on front porch of shack home, New Madrid County, Missouri

Carlisle, Pennsylvania. U.S. Army medical field service school. Army doctors listening to lecture on various methods of constructing incinerators in the field. Various types of incinerators are constructed in what is called the sanitary area of the barracks

Lightning Troop, 3rd Squadron, 2nd Cavalry Regiment

Sign at outskirts of Tombstone, Arizona

Arizona dairy heard [sic], Panoramic Photograph

U.S. Marine with 3rd Battalion, 3rd Marine Regiment,

Daniel Field, Georgia. Air Service Command. Lining up for "chow" at the mess hall

Miners at Dougherty's mine, near Falls Creek, Pennsylvania, sharpening their axes at the end of a day's work

U.S. Marines with Echo Company, 2nd Battalion, 6th

Wellton-Mohawk Irrigation System, Building No. 1 (House), 30601 Wellton-Mohawk Drive, Wellton, Yuma County, AZ

Tennessee Valley Authority. Construction of Douglas Dam. Inside the log cofferdam of TVA's new Douglas Dam on the French Broad River. This dam will be 161 feet high and 1,682 feet long, with a 31,600 acre reservoir area extending forty-three miles upstream. With a useful storage capacity of approximately 1,330,00 acre feet, this reservoir will make possible the addition of nearly 100,000 kilowatts of continuous power to the TVA system in dry years and almost 170,000 kilowatts in the average year

Arizona - Oraibi through Yuma aerial photograph, The U.S. National Archives

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arizona yuma county yuma nitrate negatives russell lee photo farm security administration field day farmworkers community ultra high resolution high resolution office of war information united states history home front wwii great depression world war 2 library of congress wwii photographs