Russell Lee

 Residents of Section 30. Near Winton, Minnesota, 1937

 

 Revivalist singing at rally under trees in square, 

 Saturday afternoon, Tahlequah, Oklahoma, 1939

 

 Rice farmer getting drink of water from water boy 

on farm near Crowley, Louisiana, 1938

 

 Rustan's daughter reading a Sunday paper, 

Rustan brothers' farm near Dickens, Iowa, 1936

 

 Slot machine spectators, Pilottown, 1938

  

 Southeast Missouri Farms. Negro FSA client cultivating in field of corn, 1938

 

 Spanish-American girls mixing adobe plaster with their hands, 

Chamisal, New Mexico, 1940

 

 Spanish-American women plastering an adobe house, Chamisal, New Mexico, 1940

 

 Spectators at childrens' races, Labor Day celebration, Ridgway, Colorado, 1940

 

Spectators at S.W. Sparlin's auction sale, Orth, Minnesota, 1937

Fourth of July, 1941

These photos were taken at the July 4th celebration in Vale, Oregon, in 1941. The photographer was Russell Lee.

 At the picnic grounds on the Fourth of July. Vale, Oregon, 1941

 

 Boy on float in Fourth of July parade. Vale, Oregon, 1941

 

 Cold drink stand at the picnic grounds on the Fourth of July, Vale, Oregon, 1941

 

 Decorated car in the Fourth of July parade at Vale, Oregon, 1941

 

 Decorating a car for the Fourth of July parade. Vale, Oregon, 1941

 

 Farmer with his granddaughter at picnic on Fourth of July. Vale, Oregon, 1941

 

Fighting a grass fire, Fourth of July. Vale, Oregon, 1941
 

 Fireworks for sale, Fourth of July, Vale, Oregon, 1941

 

 Float in the Fourth of July parade. Vale, Oregon, 1941

 

 Greased pig race, Fourth of July, Vale, Oregon, 1941

 

 Greased pig race, Fourth of July, Vale, Oregon, 1941

  

 Little girl plays with prizes won at concession, Fourth of July, Vale, Oregon, 1941

 

 Motorcycle racers, Fourth of July, Vale, Oregon, 1941

 

 Picnic on the Fourth of July, Vale, Oregon, 1941

 

 The Fourth of July parade at Vale, Oregon, 1941

 

 Tired picnickers, Fourth of July, Vale, Oregon, 1941

 

 Watching greased pig race on the Fourth of July. Vale, Oregon, 1941

 

Watching the parade on the Fourth of July at Vale, Oregon, 1941

Russell Lee

 Old Spanish-American woman, Chamisal, New Mexico, 1940

 

 Oldest daughter of Pomp Hall, tenant farmer, with an ear of corn 

which she is shelling to feed her chickens, Creek County, Oklahoma, 1940

 

 Part of flood refugee family in a tent at Tent City, near Shawneetown, Illinois, 1937

 

 Paying off time for potato pickers near Spiro, Oklahoma, 1939

 

 Pea picker. Nampa, Idaho, 1941

 

 Pecan shellers eating lunch, San Antonio, Texas, 1939

 

 Petaluma, Sonoma County, California. Packing eggs into cartons, 1942

 

Picking oranges near Weslaco, Texas, 1939

 

 Picking peas, labor contractor's crew. Nampa, Idaho, 1941

 

 Princesses at the National Rice Festival, Crowley, Louisiana, 1938

 

Quilting in sharecropper's home near Pace, Mississippi, 1939

Russell Lee

 Negro musicians playing accordion and washboard in automobile. 

Near New Iberia, Louisiana, 1938

 Negro stevedore with sack of oysters on back, Olga, Louisiana, 1938

 Negro stevedores sleeping on pile of lumber on bow of packet boat 

on Mississippi River below New Orleans, 1938

 Negro tenant farmer on his front porch. This farm is owned by an out-of-state woman and has been rented by this family of Negroes for eleven years. South of Muskogee, Oklahoma, 1939

 Negroes kneeling at graves of relatives, and being blessed 

by priest with holy water, New Roads, Louisiana, 1938

 Negroes waiting at streetcar terminal for cars, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, 1939

 New Madrid County, Missouri. Sharecropper's wife chopping cotton, 

Southeast Missouri Farms Project, 1938

 Oil field worker drinking water, Kilgore, Texas, 1939

 Oil field worker, Kilgore, Texas, 1939

Old Negro (former slave) with horn with which slaves were called. Near Marshall, Texas, 1939

Russell Lee - Kids

 Southeast Missouri Farms. Daughter of FSA client, 

former sharecropper, leaning on hoe, 1938

 Spanish-American children waiting for a ride on the merry-go-round, 

Fiesta, Taos, New Mexico, 1940

 Spanish-American boy weeding the garden, Chamisal, New Mexico, 1940

 Spanish-American girls, Chamisal, New Mexico, 1940

 Spanish-American native dance. Fiesta at Taos, New Mexico, 1940

 Spanish-American people at fiesta, Taos, New Mexico, 1940

 Where the Negro and white sections on the South Side meet, the white and Negro children sometimes play together, Chicago, Illinois, 1941

 Young girl holding baby brother in her arms, community camp, Oklahoma City, 1939

 Youngsters, Vale, Oregon, 1941

Visitors to the fiesta, Taos, New Mexico, 1940