Russell Lee - Kids

Photos of children by Russell Lee. He seems to have specialized in photographing children. There are hundreds of them.

 A migrant child in her playhouse. The rusted scales represented a clock to the little girl. 

Near Harlingen, Texas, 1939

 African American boys clowning around, 1941

 Baby in crib, Earl Pauley's home near Smithland Iowa, 1936

 Boy resting on bed in attic of sharecropper shack. New Madrid County, Missouri, 1938

 Boys in front of A&P market waiting for jobs to cart home groceries of shoppers, 

Chicago, Illinois, 1941

 Boys on sacks of wool, Malheur County, Oregon, 1941

 Boys' sack race, Labor Day celebration, Ridgway, Colorado, 1940

 Child of agricultural day laborer in string bean field near Muskogee, Oklahoma, 1939

 Child of family encamped by the roadside near Spiro, Oklahoma. This family is doing agricultural day labor to secure funds to continue westward, 1939

 Child of farmer in cotton field, Lake Dick Project, Arkansas, 1938

 Child of migrant adding water to boiling beans on stove which was set up immediately after reaching camping grounds near Harlingen, Texas, 1939

Detroit Publishing - Atlantic CIty

Photos from America's playground in the first decade of the 20th century.

 A life saver on the lookout, 1880-1906

 Along the beach, Atlantic City, New Jersey, 1905

 Atlantic City, New Jersey, on the beach, 1890-1910

 Atlantic City, New Jersey, the bathing hour, 1900-1910

 Bathers, Atlantic City, New Jersey, 1905-1920

 Bathing hour, Atlantic City, New Jersey, 1900-1910

 Bathing hour, Atlantic City, New Jersey, 1908

 Dolly's go-cart, Atlantic City, New Jersey, 1905

 Getting their picture took, 1890-1910

Hands up on the beach at Atlantic City, New Jersey, 1900-1920

Ben Shahn - Ohio

Photos taken by Ben Shahn in Ohio, in 1938.

 Along main street, Lancaster, Ohio

 At the Ashville July 4th celebration, Ashville, Ohio

 Dairy show horses at county fair, central Ohio

 Family on relief, Lancaster, Ohio

 Farmpeople at fair in central Ohio

 Lineup for pony race at county fair, central Ohio

 Main street, Lancaster, Ohio

[is the guy on the right surreptitiously giving us the finger??]

 Members of threshing crew, central Ohio

 Mr. Thaxton, farmer, near Mechanicsburg, Ohio, feeding his pigs

 Preparing dinner for hands at wheat harvest time, central Ohio

Relief clients, central Ohio

Lewis Hine - Mill Workers, ctd

 Arthur Sarasin. Works in weaving room. At his house his people said he was fourteen last week. New Bedford, Massachusetts, 1911

 Family of Albert Senter. Eleven year old Mandy has learned to spin by "helping." The three girls work and Mandy helps, with one eye on a steady job. Fries, Virginia, 1911

 Lillian Nettles, an eleven year old spinner in Magnolia Cotton Mills, Magnolia, Miss. Her sister said, "She ain't old 'nuff to draw pay," but she helps regularly, and says she can run two sides. 1911

 Lillie Robertson, a young spinner in Century Cotton Mills, South Boston, Virginia. 

Runs four sides, 1911

 One of the young spinners in the Quidwick Co. Mill, Anthony, R.I. (A Polish boy Willie) who was taking his noon rest in a doffer-box, 1909

 Pearl said she was 10 years old and helps her mother in the weave room 

of the Pickett Cotton Mill, High Point, NC, 1912

 Ruth Barnhill (elder). Been at it 4 years. Run 6 sides. Emma Barnhill 4 years in mill. 4 sides. 

Looked 10 years old. Maple Mills, Dillon, South Carolina, 1908

 Smith Family, West Point, Miss. Three girls (in front) work in the mill. This boy and others work up town. Came from an Alabama farm six months ago, 1911

 T.J. Fields and family. The father cards, two girls spin, boy on right end picks up bobbins, Washington Cotton Mills, Fries, Virginia, 1911

This boy has worked in Payne Cotton Mill, for 2 yrs Macon, Georgia. Runs 4 sides and earns 52 cents a day. Overseer has hand on boy's shoulder, 1909

Ansel Adams - Manzanar

Ansel Adams was best known for his transcendent landscape photography, but he took time out from that pursuit during World War II to visit the Manzanar internment center for Japanese Americans. According to the Wikipedia entry, "Adams was distressed by the Japanese American Internment that occurred after the Pearl Harbor attack. He requested permission to visit the Manzanar War Relocation Center in the Owens Valley, at the foot of Mount Williamson. The resulting photo-essay first appeared in a Museum of Modern Art exhibit, and later was published as Born Free and Equal: The Story of Loyal Japanese-Americans."

Although this is a very different kind of photography than Adams usually practiced, one can easily see that he just couldn't keep the artistry out of it.

This is the first of several sets of Adams' Manzanar photos, all taken in 1943.

 Entrance to Manzanar Relocation Center

Manzanar Relocation Center from tower

 Benji Iguchi with squash, Manzanar Relocation Center

 Birds on wire, evening, Manzanar Relocation Center

 Buddhist service, Manzanar Relocation Center, California

 Burning leaves, autumn dawn, Manzanar Relocation Center, California

 Calisthenics at Manzanar Relocation Center

Calisthenics at Manzanar Relocation Center

 Chicken farm, Mori Nakashima, Manzanar Relocation Center

Dressmaking class, Manzanar Relocation Center, California