Box 18
Container
Contains 1 Result:
Son of Clabe Hicks, miner. Ten people, two adults and eight children live in a four room house for which they pay eleven dollars monthly, plus one dollar monthly for water and two dollars monthly for electricity. They have running water in the kitchen; the Hicks put in a sink, have repapered the house, supply electric wiring from the outlet fixtures in each room. Mrs. Hicks said, “all the company furnishes is the roof and it leaks.” The roof is tar paper. Southern Coal Corporation, Bradshaw Mine, Bradshaw, McDowell County, West Virginia, 1946
Item — Box: 18, item: WG308
Series Description
From the Series:
Arranged in chronological order by following Lee’s career, this series consists of 352 photographs. Two-hundred forty-eight of these photographs by Russell Lee were taken for the Farm Security Administration (FSA) between 1936 and 1942. The gems of this part of the collection are the 130 vintage prints; most are complete with captions typed on the back by FSA staff. Making up the balance of the FSA group are 94 modern prints, 6 panels from the 1965 retrospective at the University of Texas,...
Dates:
1946
