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Subcontracting (Beery and Sons). A special jig on this milling machine at the shop of Beery and Sons meant a considerable cut in schedule on a small part ordered by a war subcontractor. If repeat orders for this part come, the time will be cut to one- eighth of the original schedule

A black and white photo of a man working on a machine, Great Depression. FSA/OWI Photograph

Harrington brothers, sawmilling, West Greenwich, Rhode Island

FSA/OWI - Farm security administration and Office of War Information photograph.

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Mexican girl sewing in their home. Robstown, Texas. Contrary to the prevalent idea, Mexicans generally are extremely neat and clean even when they live in most crowded conditions

Mexican woman in kitchen corner of her one-room dwelling made out of discarded tin ceiling material. Notice dirt floor. Robstown, Texas

Mexican woman in kitchen corner of her one-room dwelling made out of discarded tin ceiling material. Notice dirt floor. Robstown, Texas

Spanish-American women making plaster of straw and mud to replaster house. Chamisal, New Mexico

Mexican girl straightening corner of her kitchen. San Antonio, Texas

Mexican woman washing in front of house in corral. Mexican section, San Antonio, Texas

Mexican woman washing in front of house in corral. Mexican section, San Antonio, Texas

Mexican woman cleaning her backyard. San Antonio, Texas

Backyard of Mexican district. Robstown, Texas

Mexican girl sewing in their home. Robstown, Texas. Contrary to the prevalent idea, Mexicans generally are extremely neat and clean even when they live in most crowded conditions

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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

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Film copy on SIS roll 22, frame 1151.

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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Date

01/01/1939
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Russell Lee

Russell Lee for Farm Security Administration (FSA)
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Location

nueces county
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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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Burning mesquite in process of clearing land, El Indio, Texas

F.F. Cole, junior chemical engineer, keeps data on rate of dehydration of potatoes. Regional agricultural research laboratory, Albany, California

Day laborer resting on sign near railroad platform, Raymondville, Texas

Unloading wholesale grocery truck at retail store, San Angelo, Texas

Fort Worth, Texas. Meacham Field. Instructor and students

Conversion. Floor waxer plant. One of the few lathes bought by a small Eastern manufacturing firm. Unable to purchase much new machinery, the owner of the company installed and remodelled old equipment to produce war essentials under subcontract. First orders were delivered thirty days after contract, an amoazingly short time considering that conversion of machines took two weeks of it. Floorola Products Inc., York, Pennsylvania

A black and white photo of two men working on a camera, possibly related to: Surveyors at work, Shasta Dam. Shasta County, California

Production. Tin smelting. "Bars" of pure tin are trimmed and cleaned before removal from the molds in which they were formed in a Southern smelter. All the trimmings are returned to the "pot boilers" for remelting. The plant, finest and most modern in the world, extracts the pure metal from South American ore

An oil refinery in Groves, Texas, near Port Arthur

Jerusalem water works. Pumping station at Solomon's pools

Remains of wood heater used in former lumber camp at Craigville, Minnesota

Clerk measuring customer for trousers. San Augustine, Texas

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