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Two men standing next to each other at a podium. Pie Town, New Mexico. Farm Security Administartion photograph.

A group of people standing around a microphone. Pie Town, New Mexico. Farm Security Administartion photograph.

Young farm boy leading community sing. Pie Town, New Mexico

Mr. Keele, merchant and president of the Farm Bureau, making out bill for a farmer. Pie Town, New Mexico

A group of singers from Quemado who are competing for the Catron County championship at the Pie Town, New Mexico, singing convention

A black and white photo of a group of people. Pie Town, New Mexico. Farm Security Administartion photograph.

Farmer and his wife leading the singing at Sunday school. Pie Town, New Mexico

Farmers at Farm Bureau meeting. Mr. Craig is on the right. Pie Town, New Mexico

Pie Town singers who are competing for the championship. New Mexico

President of the singing convention. He is also a homesteader, on the right presenting the banner to Mr. Whinery as representative of one group of the contesting singers. Pie Town, New Mexico

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Public domain photograph of United States agriculture in the 1930s, country, farmer, farm, great depression, migration, dust bowl refugees, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

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.

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01/01/1940
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Lee, Russell, 1903-1986, photographer
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Pie Town, 1940

Pie Town F.S.A. photographs
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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 black and white photo of a cow pulling a wagon. Pie Town, New Mexico. Farm Security Administartion photograph.

John Adams, homesteader. He drags ties down from the mountains with his burros to get some cash to get his farm started. He always has time to help a neighbor build a dugout or do any other heavy work. Pie Town, New Mexico

Farmer and his younger brother with tractor which has been adapted from truck. Pie Town, New Mexico

A black and white photo of a man leading a horse. Pie Town, New Mexico. Farm Security Administartion photograph.

A couple of young girls sitting under a shelter. Pie Town, New Mexico. Farm Security Administartion photograph.

A black and white photo of a woman. Pie Town, New Mexico. Farm Security Administartion photograph.

A man riding on the back of a white horse. Pie Town, New Mexico. Farm Security Administartion photograph.

Mr. and Mrs. George Hutton, Sr., homesteaders from Oklahoma. Mr Hutton says, "There is nothing I'd rather see less than a cotton field." Pie Town, New Mexico

A black and white photo of a man standing on a log. Pie Town, New Mexico. Farm Security Administartion photograph.

A group of people standing around a horse drawn wagon. Pie Town, New Mexico. Farm Security Administartion photograph.

A black and white photo of a man on a horse A black and white photo of a man on a horse. Pie Town, New Mexico. Farm Security Administartion photograph.

A black and white photo of a truck and a horse. Pie Town, New Mexico. Farm Security Administartion photograph.

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