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A black and white photo of a man with a camera. Office of War Information Photograph

A black and white photo of a man with a camera. Office of War Information Photograph

A black and white photo of a man with a camera. Office of War Information Photograph

A black and white photo of a man with a camera. Office of War Information Photograph

Farm security administration office of war information black and white negatives

Farm security administration office of war information black and white negatives

Farm security administration office of war information black and white negatives

Farm security administration office of war information black and white negatives

Farm security administration office of war information black and white negatives

A black and white photo of a man with a camera. Office of War Information Photograph

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Summary

Title and other information from caption card.

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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california shasta county nitrate negatives lot 103 russell lee photo shasta dam ultra high resolution high resolution office of war information farm security administration united states history wwii home front workers great depression world war 2 library of congress japan wwii photographs
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Date

01/01/1941
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Russell Lee

Russell Lee for Farm Security Administration (FSA)
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california
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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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A couple of men standing next to each other. World War Two Era FSA/OWI Photograph.

Feet of a Negro farmer. Greene County, Georgia

De Land pool. Babcock airplane plant. Joe Wheeler Miller of De Land, Florida is doing his part in making machinery that will keep American fighting planes in the air. He was named after a southern general, Joe Wheeler, by a father who thought the General was "the fightinest man he knew" and wanted his son to be likewise. He ran a fishing tackle business that went out with priorities. Although he never had an arc welding holder in his hands before entering the De Land vocational school, he and another similarly trained man have acquired speed that has doubled the Babcock production

Pre-WWII collection of Farm Security Administration - Office of War Information

A black and white photo of a man on a ladder. World War Two Era FSA/OWI Photograph.

A black and white photo of a man and a dog, possibly related to: Construction worker, Shasta Dam, Shasta County, California

Workmen at Shasta Dam. Shasta County, California

Shasta Dam, Shasta County, California. Pipe fitter

Fort Belvoir, Virginia. Constantine P. Lihas, a twenty-one year old Greek-American soldier, formerly a material handler at the General Electric Company plant at Pittsburgh. Both parents were born in Greece; father came to the United States in 1906, mother in 1921. He was born in this country and has been in the army five months. Lihas in a decontamination outfit

Cincinnati, Ohio. Preparing canned pork (Russian: "svinaia tushonka") for lend-lease shipment to the USSR at the Kroger grocery and baking company. Girls placing lard, spice and onions in cans before the pork is added. Left to right: Bonnie Williams, age twenty-one, used to work in shirt factory, has a husband in the U.S. Army; Elta Wininger, age twenty-nine, ex-housewife, has a brother in North Africa

Conversion. Toy furniture to dies for incendiary bombs. This worker in a small Midwest factory is handling dies for use in producing incendiary bombs. The company, which formerly made doll's furniture, is now operating under subcontract for war production Sivon Machine Company, Painesville, Ohio

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california shasta county nitrate negatives lot 103 russell lee photo shasta dam ultra high resolution high resolution office of war information farm security administration united states history wwii home front workers great depression world war 2 library of congress japan wwii photographs