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A black and white photo of a man sitting at a desk. Pie Town, New Mexico. Farm Security Administartion photograph.
Mr. Keele taking crate of grapefruit from truck. General store, Pie Town, New Mexico
Mr. Keele, merchant and president of the Farm Bureau, in front of the general store. Pie Town, New Mexico
A black and white photo of a man standing in front of a store. Pie Town, New Mexico. Farm Security Administartion photograph.
A black and white photo of two men loading wood onto a truck. Pie Town, New Mexico. Farm Security Administartion photograph.
Mr. Keele examining oranges before buying them from trucker. General store. Pie Town, New Mexico
A black and white photo of a man cutting a banana. Pie Town, New Mexico. Farm Security Administartion photograph.
Mr. Keele slicing bacon in the general store at Pie Town, New Mexico
Mr. Craig works on his bills in the warehouse store. Pie Town, New Mexico
Mr. Keele looks over accounts of the general store. Pie Town, New Mexico
Summary
Picryl description: Public domain image of a department store, commerce, shopping, main street, city downtown, early 20th-century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
Pie Town, New Mexico, is a town with a population of about two hundred that’s named for its famous baked goods. Pie Town photographs, along with 164,000 others taken by F.S.A. photographers, are now stored at the Library of Congress. Russell Lee’s made his photographs in 1940, while on assignment for the Farm Security Administration. Lee, who had trained as a chemist and then as a painter, was assigned to take pictures “of most anything he can find.” He made six hundred images that give a look at the daily life of a small desert community. Many photographs are color Kodachromes. It was the time of the Great Depression when lower commodity prices crippled domestic prosperity and price declines destroyed the purchasing power of farmers and other primary producers.