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Documentary photography

 Subject
Subject Source: Local sources

Found in 561 Collections and/or Records:

Pie Town, New Mexico. A community settled by about 200 migrant Texas and Oklahoma farmers who have filed homestead claims. Side of the house of Jack Whinery, farmer. Whinery came to Pie Town last fall from Texas where he had been a farm day laborer, 1940

 Item — Box 15, item: WG232
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: 1940

Pie Town, New Mexico. A community settled by about 200 migrant Texas and Oklahoma farmers who have filed homestead claims. Side of the house of Jack Whinery, farmer. Whinery came to Pie Town last fall from Texas where he had been a farm day laborer. The dugout was built first, small room in the foreground added later. It is characteristic of these people that they retain their dugouts as they add to their houses, 1940

 Item — Box 15, item: WG231
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: 1940

Pope, Milton (Lee’s uncle), December 20, 1918

 File — Box 1, Folder: 10
Series Description From the Series:

Arranged into subseries for correspondence to Russell Lee and to Jean Lee, this material is filed in alphabetical order by the name of the correspondent. The bulk of the correspondence to Russell Lee is comprised of letters from Jack Hurley regarding their collaboration on the book, Russell Lee: Photographer.

Dates: December 20, 1918

[Portrait of Russell Lee], 1979

 Item — Box 12, item: WG071a
Series Description From the Series:

The collection contains 77 photographs of Russell Lee, the largest group known to exist. This group of photographs range from portraits by unknown studio photographers, to well known photographers such as Ave Bonar. Russell Lee is portrayed both in snapshots by anonymous photographers and candid photographs by military photographers in the Air Transport Command.

Dates: 1979

Post-World War II Texas, 1950-1960

 Sub-Series
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: 1950-1960

[Postcard portrait of Russell Lee sitting on a log fence, out of doors, dressed in a sailor outfit], circa 1907-1910

 Item — Box 11, item: WG005
Series Description From the Series:

The collection contains 77 photographs of Russell Lee, the largest group known to exist. This group of photographs range from portraits by unknown studio photographers, to well known photographers such as Ave Bonar. Russell Lee is portrayed both in snapshots by anonymous photographers and candid photographs by military photographers in the Air Transport Command.

Dates: circa 1907-1910

[Postcard portrait of Russell Lee sitting on a log fence, out of doors, dressed in a sailor outfit] , circa 1907-1910

 Item — Box 11, item: WG006
Series Description From the Series:

The collection contains 77 photographs of Russell Lee, the largest group known to exist. This group of photographs range from portraits by unknown studio photographers, to well known photographers such as Ave Bonar. Russell Lee is portrayed both in snapshots by anonymous photographers and candid photographs by military photographers in the Air Transport Command.

Dates: circa 1907-1910

Poster for exhibit entitled “A Russell Lee Portfolio: early Texas portraits” held at Texas A&M, September 1-October 8, 1986

 File — Box 4
Series Description From the Series:

This series includes catalogs, a booklet, and a poster related to exhibits of Russell Lee’s works (one exhibit by the Coal Mine Administration in 1947, one by the University of Texas at Austin in 1965, and one by Texas A&M in 1986). Articles related Lee’s work in general complete this series

Dates: September 1-October 8, 1986

Pouring water into radiator of migrant's car in the streets of Muskogee, where family has stopped [on the way] to Oklahoma, 1939

 Item — Box 14, item: WG193
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: 1939

Pre-Farm Security Administration (FSA) Photographs, 1935-1936

 Sub-Series
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: 1935-1936

President’s Commission on Coal, 1978-1979, undated

 Series
Series Description

Correspondence, financial documents, and guidelines and working papers comprise this series which relates not to Russell Lee’s work with the Coal Mine Administration, but to his role as consultant to the President’s Commission on Coal in the late 1970s.

Dates: 1978-1979, undated

Prints and Photographs, 1983-1992, undated

 Series
Scope and Contents From the Collection: This collection is comprised of newspaper clippings, a typescript, photographs, prints and posters. Clippings relate to Latino studies and were collected by Ricardo and Harriett Romo; the typescript by UT Austin professor Ramón Saldivar, is entitled “The Dialectics of Difference: Contemporary Chicano Narrative”, which was published in 1990 by the University of Wisconsin Press. Harriett Romo’s collaboration with photographer Alan Pogue documenting the lives of Head Start program families in...
Dates: 1983-1992, undated

Prints and Photographs

 File — Map-case 7
Scope and Contents Chávez, César (2 black and white snapshots of Chávez speaking in Austin, Texas, undated) Montoya, Malaquias. Tomás Rivera lithograph. “Agricultural Workers of the Rio Grande and Rio Bravo Valleys – A portfolio by Alan Pogue with essays by Rolando Hinojosa Smith and Ruperto Garcia” Portfolio and poster“The New Immigration: Ten Etchings” by José Antonio Aguirre, Guillermo Bert, Leo Limón, Malaquias Montoya, and Alejandro Romero, 1989Malaquias...
Dates: 1983-1992, undated

Privy erection - fitting vent stack and lid on sanitary base. Southeast Missouri Farms, New Madrid County, Missouri, 1938

 Item — Box 13, item: WG105
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: 1938

Railroad station and business section of Kilgore, Texas, 1939

 Item — Box 14, item: WG175
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: 1939

Ralph Yarborough in Washington, D.C., [at the] Senate Commerce Committee, circa 1950-1960

 Item — Box 21, item: WG364
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: circa 1950-1960

Re-picker or cleaner who works at a stationary-type mechanical hop picker. Yakima County, Washington. Fifteen persons do the work of 100 hand pickers, 1941

 Item — Box 16, item: WG275
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: 1941

Re-pickers who pick over the hops after original picking by portable-type mechanical picker, Yakima Chief Hop Ranch, Yakima County, Washington, 1941

 Item — Box 16, item: WG261
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: 1941

Receipt from The University Co-Op in Austin; Purchase orders from the U.S. Department of Labor to Russell Lee covering consultant/speaker fee and expenses (2), May 1, 1979, undated

 File — Box 2, Folder: 12
Series Description From the Series:

Correspondence, financial documents, and guidelines and working papers comprise this series which relates not to Russell Lee’s work with the Coal Mine Administration, but to his role as consultant to the President’s Commission on Coal in the late 1970s.

Dates: May 1, 1979, undated

Refreshments at close of meeting of home demonstration club, McIntosh County, Oklahoma, 1940

 Item — Box 15, item: WG226
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: 1940