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 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 561 Collections and/or Records:

Detail of cleaning apparatus on portable type mechanical hop picker, Yakima Chief Hop Ranch. Yakima County, Washington, 1941

 Item — Box 16, item: WG262
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

Detail of farmer's boots and spurs, Pie Town, New Mexico, 1940

 Item — Box 15, item: WG210
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

Detail of nineteenth century home in Texas, 1961

 Item — Box 20, item: WG344
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: 1961

Detail of square-dance in hills near McAllister, Oklahoma. Pittsburgh County, sharecropper's home, 1939

 Item — Box 14, item: WG198
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

Diary of Mrs. Burton (Adeline) Cook Lee, Lee’s mother, October 10, 1900-May 29, 1901

 Item — Box 1, Folder: 17
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: October 10, 1900-May 29, 1901

Dillard Eldridge, his wife and children, at supper in the four-room house for which they pay nine dollars monthly. This is one of the new houses in this camp, and is about twenty years old. Kentucky Straight Creek Coal Company, Belva Mine, 1946

 Item — Box 18, item: WG311
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

Dillard Eldridge, his wife and children, at supper in the four-room house for which they pay nine dollars monthly. This is one of the new houses in this camp, and is about twenty years old. Kentucky Straight Creek Coal Company, Belva Mine, abandoned, 1946

 Item — Box 18, item: WG312
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

Divorce papers, Doris Lee and Russell Lee, December 7, 1939

 Item — Box 2, Folder: 3
Series Description From the Series:

Documents including and relating to the will of Russell Lee’s maternal grandmother, Eva Werner, comprise the first subseries of this series, and relate in part to a half-sister of Lee’s. Other documents include a divorce decree for Russell Lee and his first wife, birth and marriage certificates for Russell and Jean Lee, passports for both Lees, and financial records related to a household employee.

Dates: December 7, 1939

Documents Relating to Eva Werner’s Will, 1949, 1986, 1990

 File — Box 2, Folder: 2
Contents

Will, dated June 11, 1914 (copy from March 9, 1949)

Trustee Report from March 1, 1983 to August 28, 1986

Form Complaint (contest), October 15, 1986

Legal correspondence to Jean Lee (October 28, 1986 to July 1, 1990)

Dates: 1949, 1986, 1990

Double muggers waiting for their turn at the rodeo [at the Texas Cowboy Reunion], Stamford, Texas, 1959

 Item — Box 19, item: WG351
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

Double muggers waiting for their turn at the rodeo [at the Texas Cowboy Reunion], Stamford, Texas, 1959

 Item — Box 19, item: WG352
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

Double muggers waiting for their turn at the rodeo [at the Texas Cowboy Reunion], Stamford, Texas, 1959

 Item — Box 21, item: WG353
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

Double row houses; garbage and trash are disposed of in this meager stream of water; there is a well and pump at each end of the row of houses. Panther Red Ash Coal Corporation, Douglas Mine, Panther, McDowell County, West Virginia, August 26, 1946

 Item — Box 18, item: WG381
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: August 26, 1946

Driving fat lambs to Cimarron, Colorado for shipping to Denver, Colorado, 1940

 Item — Box 15, item: WG256
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

Druggist in front of medicine shelf, San Augustine, Texas, 1939

 Item — Box 14, item: WG156
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

Druggist making up prescription, San Augustine, Texas, 1939

 Item — Box 14, item: WG155
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

Dugout home of Faro and Doris Caudill, Pie Town, New Mexico, 1940

 Item — Box 15, item: WG234
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

Entrance to San Augustine County Fair, San Augustine, Texas, 1939

 Item — Box 14, item: WG166a
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

[Eugene Smith portrait] taken by unknown studio photographer (father of Jean Lee), undated

 Item — Box 12, item: WG044e
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

Exhibits and Publications, 1947-1986

 Series
Series Description

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: 1947-1986