Similar
Locust plagues in Palestine. Methods of fighting the locust plague. Tramping down a pit of locusts. A smelly job as shown by the labourers holding their noses
Just Ten Days (7 Photographs) - Public domain, Federal Theatre Project 1935-1939
American Great Depression, 1935. Farm Security Administration photographs.
Hamburger stand. Imperial County Fair, California
Backwash (8 Photographs) - Public domain, Federal Theatre Project 1935-1939
Related
White migrant and his wife in camp near Sebastian, Texas. Both are west Texans who have come to the valley for the winter vegetable harvest
A black and white photo of a man and a woman - FSA / Office of War Information Photograph
White migrant in camp near Harlingen, Texas. He is one of the three traveling separately but who have set up camp together. Each cooks and eats alone. They were attracted to the lower valley by reports of plentiful work, but have been unable to compete with the local Mexican labor in that section
White migrant sitting in front of his fire in camp near Harlingen, Texas. He is one of the three traveling separately but who have set up camp together near Harlingen, Texas. Each cooks and eats alone. They were attracted to the lower valley by reports of plentiful work but have been unable to compete with the local Mexican labor in that section
White migrant in camp near Harlingen, Texas. He is one of the three traveling separately but who have set up camp together. Each cooks and eats alone. They were attracted to the lower valley by reports of plentiful work, but have been unable to compete with the local Mexican labor in that section
White migrant sitting in front of his fire in camp near Harlingen, Texas. He is one of the three traveling separately but who have set up camp together near Harlingen, Texas. Each cooks and eats alone. They were attracted to the lower valley by reports of plentiful work but have been unable to compete with the local Mexican labor in that section
White migrant talking in camp near Edinburg, Texas. These people claimed that they were not migrants, even though it was obvious that they were doing migrant day labor and the condition of their tents showed that they had been on the road for a long time. They expressed themselves as needing nothing and desiring no governmental aid. However they agreed to having the pictures made since they felt that there were other people that might be helped in that way
Daughter of white migrants reaching for stick of wood. Sebastian, Texas
Batavia, New York. Elba FSA (Farm Security Administration) farm labor camp. The Red Cross serving migrants from West Virginia their first hot meal since leaving home
White migrant and his wife in trailer home near Sebastian, Texas. He is from west Texas and she from Virginia. These migrants around Sebastin expressed a fear of regimentation under various governmental projects, saying that they had heard that under FSA (Farm Security Administration) all food bought and eaten was prescribed by the government
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
Temp. note: usf34batch3
Film copy on SIS roll 29, frame 1527.
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.