Documentary photography
Subject
Subject Source: Local sources
Found in 561 Collections and/or Records:
Saudi Arabia [shot for Aramco], 1955
Item — Box 20, item: WG330
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:
1955
Scene along the Arkansas river bottom at Webber Falls, Oklahoma, 1939
Item — Box 14, item: WG192
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
Scene in the sage brush county, south of Costilla, Taos County, New Mexico, 1939
Item — Box 14, item: WG203
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
School children at the Farm Security Administration Farm Workers Community, Eleven Mile Corner, Arizona, 1941
Item — Box 16, item: WG284
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
School girls give a musical number at the 4H Club spring fair. Adrian, Oregon, 1941
Item — Box 16, item: WG267
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
School teacher at rural school, winner of the prettiest girl contest at the pie supper, Muskogee County, Oklahoma, 1940
Item — Box 15, item: WG224
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
Selling apples, Jacksonville, Texas, 1939
Item — Box 14, item: WG136c
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
Senate resolution in memory of Russell Lee presented to Jean Lee, September 4, 1986
Item — Box 3, Folder: 1
Series Description
From the Series:
This seriesincludes some of the awards given to Russell Lee throughout his career, arranged in chronological order, beginning with one from his high school, Culver Military Academy, dating from 1919-1920. Lee’s World War II Air Medal and other WWII decorations, as well a Resolution commemorating Lee’s efforts on behalf of the Coal Mine Administration (1947) are also included in this series. A Texas State Senate Resolution presented to Jean Lee in 1986 in memory of Russell Lee is also...
Dates:
September 4, 1986
Separating the whole meats from the broken ones. Union plant, San Antonio, Texas, 1939
Item — Box 14, item: WG152a
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
Services at the Pentecostal Church of God. Lejunior, Harlan County, Kentucky, 1946
Item — Box 18, item: WG321
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
Services at the Pentecostal Church of God. Lejunior, Harlan County, Kentucky, 1946
Item — Box 18, item: WG321a
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
[Shirley Smith] (mother of Jean Lee), undated
Item — Box 12, item: WG044f
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:
undated
Signs in the oil town of Hobbs, New Mexico, 1940
Item — Box 15, item: WG228
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
Silver cup [from Culver Military Academy]: Presented by “D” Co. to Cadet Russell W. Lee who has shown the most company spirit and done the most for the company during the school year , 1919-1920
Item — Box 6
Series Description
From the Series:
This seriesincludes some of the awards given to Russell Lee throughout his career, arranged in chronological order, beginning with one from his high school, Culver Military Academy, dating from 1919-1920. Lee’s World War II Air Medal and other WWII decorations, as well a Resolution commemorating Lee’s efforts on behalf of the Coal Mine Administration (1947) are also included in this series. A Texas State Senate Resolution presented to Jean Lee in 1986 in memory of Russell Lee is also...
Dates:
1919-1920
[Snowy street scene, New York City], 1935-1936
Item — Box 13, item: WG082
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
Soda jerker flipping ice cream into malted milk shakes, Corpus Christi, Texas, 1939
Item — Box 14, item: WG145
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
Soda jerker flipping ice cream into malted milk shakes, Corpus Christi, Texas, 1939
Item — Box 14, item: WG145b
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
Soldiers in front of Pyramids, Cairo, Egypt. [On the left is Hiram Brailer and on the right is Russell Lee], 1943
Item — Box 11, item: WG043
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:
1943
Son of a day laborer living in Arkansas river bottom at Webber Falls, Oklahoma, Muskogee County, Oklahoma, 1939
Item — Box 14, item: WG190
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
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