Russell Lee

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

 A member of the Forest Service who is participating in Indian dances at the fiesta, 

Taos, New Mexico, 1940

 Activity in pool and barroom, Pilottown, Louisiana, 1938

 Adding a length of drilling pipe at oil well in Seminole oil field, Oklahoma. 

Wrenches applied to loosen pipe, 1939

 At the annual field day of the FSA farmworkers community, Yuma, Arizona, 1942

 Audience listening to orchestra playing outside grocery store on Saturday afternoon, 

Phoenix, Arizona, 1940

 Buckboard Charlie, a squatter near Iron River, Michigan, 1937

 Camp cook working over an open fire, cattle ranch near Spur, Texas. The old attitude 

of the inferiority of the cook on the range is still prevalent. 

This cook said "the boys treat me awfully good", 1939

 Camp of migrant workers near Prague, Oklahoma. Lincoln County, 1939

 Chuck and bedroll wagon of the tank gang on the highway. 

Near Marfa, Texas, 1939

 Clearing space to pile topped sugar beets; this makes scooping them up easier.

East Grand Forks, Minnesota, 1937

Cotton pickers being loaded onto truck for transportation to fields.

Pine Bluff, Arkansas, 1938

Lewis Hine - Farm Work

 Annette Roy, the youngest worker. Said 7 years old. Picked last year. 

Smart's Bog, Massachusetts, 1911

 Group of children carrying in their pecks to the "bushel man." 

Theodore Budd's Bog at Turkeytown near Pemberton, NJ, 1910

 Mary Christmas, nearly 4 years old. Picks cranberries sometimes. She is now picking up berries spilled at the barrels by Grandfather. Falmouth, Week's Bog, Massachusetts, 1911

[who names their kid "Mary Christmas"??]

 Merilda. Carrying cranberries. Rochester, Eldridge Bog, Massachusetts, 1911

 Smallest girl is Rosie. Carries cranberries. Whites Bog, Brown Mills, NJ, 1910

 Susie Fava. Picks 8 pails a day. Said 8 years old. Gets 8 cents a pail. 

Rochester, Eldridge Bog, Massachusetts, 1911

 Young pickers on Swift's Bog. All working. 

Falmouth, Swift's Bog, Massachusetts, 1911

 Annie Bissie, a little picker in the fields near Baltimore, 1909

 Benkendorfer farm near West, Texas. Owned by father and well kept up. Mandy, six years old, picks twenty-five pounds a day. Sophie, nine years old picks ninety pounds a day, 1913

 Laura Petty, a 6 year old berry picker on Jenkins farm, 

Rock Creek near Baltimore, Maryland, 1909

In front of shacks at noon, Florence colony, Whites Bog, Browns Mills, NJ, 1910

Dorothea Lange - Migrants

More portraits of Depression-era American migrants by Dorothea Lange.

 "We made good money in the cherries this year. From then on we made just beans." 

Merrill, Klamath County, Oregon, 1939

 Aged woman from Oklahoma. Kern County migrant camp, California, 1936

 Camp talent provides music for dancing at Shafter camp for migrants. 

Halloween party, Shafter, California, 1938

 Drought refugee from Polk, Missouri. Awaiting the opening of orange picking season at Porterville, California, 1936

 Drought refugees from Oklahoma looking for work in the pea fields of California. 

Near San Jose Mission, 1935

 Drought refugees in California migrant camp, 1936

 Family between Dallas and Austin, Texas. The people have left their home and connections in South Texas, and hope to reach the Arkansas Delta for work in the cotton fields. Penniless people, 1936

Children of Oklahoma drought refugee in migratory camp in California, 1936

Japanese Internment - Francis Stewart

I just recently discovered a comprehensive archive of photos taken in the internment camps for Japanese-Americans during World War II. (It's here.) I've been culling the best from this collection and cleaning them up. The photos are fairly low resolution compared to others I have been posting here, but they are good enough.

I have to say, I find these photos immensely poignant. To be sure, there is a propaganda factor at play here, depicting the camps in the best light possible, and I'm sure that behind these smiling faces there were some dark undercurrents. Nonetheless, I am truly impressed with how these people coped with their situation and made the best of it.

 A group of children evacuees enjoying a game of Black Jack 

at the War Relocation Authority center, Poston, Arizona, 1942

 A group picture of the sewing school, Poston, Arizona, 1943

 A small evacuee of Japanese ancestry amuses himself while his parents are entertained by an outdoor musical show at this War Relocation Authority center, Poston, Arizona, 1942

 A view at a dance given to celebrate the Harvest Festival at Camp 2, Thanksgiving day, Rivers, Arizona, 1942

 A view at a dance given to celebrate the Harvest Festival at Camp 2, Thanksgiving day, Rivers, Arizona, 1942

 A view of cauliflower, which is being grown for its seed, Rivers, Arizona, 1943

 A view of the Reports Office, at this War Relocation Authority Center. Russell Bankson, Reports Officer, is shown on the far right. Topaz, Utah, 1943

 A young evacuee of Japanese ancestry entertains her fellow evacuees with a demonstration of her tap dancing ability. This was one number in an outdoor musical show, Poston, Arizona, 1942

 Barn dance given in Block 12. No music was available so evacuees of Japanese descent sang "Pop Goes the Weasel" and clapped hands while dancing the Virginia Reel. Poston, Arizona, 1942

 Beauty shop. Maye Morikawa, Poston, Arizona, 1943

 Butte Nursery and Kindergarten children's snack hour. Rivers, Arizona, 1944

 Cheiko Neeno, Nurse's Aid student at the Poston Hospital, 

attending a baby patient in the children's ward, 1943

 Dry goods canteen, camp 1, Poston, Arizona, 1943

Editors on the Topaz Times, who have volunteered for combat duty in the army. 

All male members of the staff have volunteered. Topaz, Utah, 1943

Harris & Ewing - Suffragettes

More photographic documentation of the women's suffrage movement.

 Suffragettes with banner, 1918

 Woman suffrage parade, 1914

 Woman suffrage pickets, 1917

 Woman suffrage, open-air meeting, 1913

 Woman suffrage. At Capitol, 1917

 Woman suffrage. Groups before Capitol, 1913

 Woman suffrage. Mrs. Swing, picketing White House, 1917

 Woman suffrage. Posters for parade, 1914

Woman suffragettes, 1913