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Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 561 Collections and/or Records:

, 1977

 File — Box 1, Folder: 4-5
Contents

Includes 2 versions of the manuscript. The first version was sent to Lee with a letter dated May 11. The second version has changes made to page 33.

Dates: 1977

2 note cards, in Lee’s hand (possibly from one of the notebooks), undated

 File — Box 1, Folder: 22
Series Description From the Series: This series contains three of Russell Lee’s FSA field notebooks (late 1930s-early 1940s), with his notes which were later used to write captions for his FSA photographs. After a certain point in time, Jean Lee took over the duty of gathering this information and maintaining notebooks for this purpose. The notebooks maintained by Jean Lee are presumed to have been discarded by Ms. Lee after Russell Lee’s death. Other materials in this series include family documents such as Russell Lee’s...
Dates: undated

3 FSA field notebooks, circa 1935-1945

 File — Box 1, Folder: 18-20
Series Description From the Series: This series contains three of Russell Lee’s FSA field notebooks (late 1930s-early 1940s), with his notes which were later used to write captions for his FSA photographs. After a certain point in time, Jean Lee took over the duty of gathering this information and maintaining notebooks for this purpose. The notebooks maintained by Jean Lee are presumed to have been discarded by Ms. Lee after Russell Lee’s death. Other materials in this series include family documents such as Russell Lee’s...
Dates: circa 1935-1945

A customer trying on a pair of boots in boot making shop. Alpine, Texas, 1939

 Item — Box 14, item: WG178
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

A family picnic on the Fourth of July at Vale, Oregon, 1941

 Item — Box 16, item: WG259
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

A flood refugee and his family in the schoolhouse at East Prairie, Missouri, 1937

 Item — Box 21, item: WG093
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: 1937

A flood refugee and his family in the schoolhouse at East Prairie, Missouri, 1937

 Item — Box 13, item: WG092
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: 1937

A miner. PV&K Coal Company, Clover Gap Mine, Lejunior, Harlan County, Kentucky, 1946

 Item — Box 18, item: WG318
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

A patient in isolation for her protection at State Institution for the Elderly, Terrell, Texas, 1959

 Item — Box 19, item: WG359
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: 1959

Activity in front of the courthouse, San Augustine, Texas, 1939

 Item — Box 14, item: WG167
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

Activity in front of the courthouse, San Augustine, Texas, 1939

 Item — Box 14, item: WG167a
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

Adding a length of drilling pipe at oil well in Seminole Oil Field, Oklahoma. Clamps are put in place, 1939

 Item — Box 14, item: WG131
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

Adding a length of drilling pipe at oil well in Seminole Oil Field, Oklahoma. Lower end of traveling block is attached to pipe in rat hole by means of rope operated off winch, 1939

 Item — Box 14, item: WG132
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

Aged Mexican woman, Crystal City, Texas, March 1939

 Item — Box 19, item: WG374
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: March 1939

Air Transport Command, 1943-1944

 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: 1943-1944

Air Transport Command Camera Bag

 Item — Box 10
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: 1919-1986

Air Transport Command cap

 Item — Box 8
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: 1919-1986

[Air Transport Command crew (Russell Lee is fourth from the left) in] Morocco, circa 1942-1945

 Item — Box 11, item: WG036
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 1942-1945

[Air Transport Command crew (Russell Lee is fourth from the left) in] Morocco, circa 1942-1945

 Item — Box 11, item: WG037
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 1942-1945

[Air Transport Command crew (Russell Lee is fourth from the left) in] Morocco, circa 1942-1945

 Item — Box 11, item: WG038
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 1942-1945