United States -- Social life and customs -- 1918-1945 -- Pictorial works
Found in 555 Collections and/or Records:
Selling apples, Jacksonville, Texas, 1939
Senate resolution in memory of Russell Lee presented to Jean Lee, September 4, 1986
Separating the whole meats from the broken ones. Union plant, San Antonio, Texas, 1939
Services at the Pentecostal Church of God. Lejunior, Harlan County, Kentucky, 1946
Services at the Pentecostal Church of God. Lejunior, Harlan County, Kentucky, 1946
[Shirley Smith] (mother of Jean Lee), undated
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.
Signs in the oil town of Hobbs, New Mexico, 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
[Snowy street scene, New York City], 1935-1936
Soda jerker flipping ice cream into malted milk shakes, Corpus Christi, Texas, 1939
Soda jerker flipping ice cream into malted milk shakes, Corpus Christi, Texas, 1939
Soldiers in front of Pyramids, Cairo, Egypt. [On the left is Hiram Brailer and on the right is Russell Lee], 1943
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.
Son of a day laborer living in Arkansas river bottom at Webber Falls, Oklahoma, Muskogee County, Oklahoma, 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
Son of sharecropper sitting on front porch of shack home, New Madrid County, Missouri, 1938
Son of white migrants sitting on trunk in tent home, Weslaco, Texas, 1939
Sons of fishermen, Olga, Louisiana, 1938
Southeast Missouri Farms. Son of sharecropper combing hair in bedroom of shack. Reprint from Library of Congress, May 1938
Southwest Texas State University (Francine Carraro)
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.