The Russell Lee Collection Melissa (Calabria, Italy) 1960
New York City, 1936
Little girls getting tickets for the merry-go-round at the carnival on the Fourth of July. Vale, Oregon 1941
John Adams, homesteader. He drags ties down from the mountains with his burros to get some cash to get his farm started. He always has time to help a neighbor build a dugout or do any other heavy work. Pie Town, New Mexico 1940
The Whinery children playing in their house. Pie Town, New Mexico 1940
Pie Town, New Mexico. A community settled by about 200 migrant Texas and Oklahoma farmers who have filed homestead claims. Josie Caudill looking over slab fence on her father's farm 1940
Pie Town, New Mexico. A community settled by about 200 migrant Texas and Oklahoma farmers who filed homestead claims. Wife of homesteader with WPA music class. These children walk eight miles for their music lessons 1940
Jigger at the square dance. Pie Town, New Mexico 1940
Cable tool driller in Seminole Oil Field, Oklahoma 1939
White migrant mother with children, Weslaco, Texas 1939
Kitchen of Mexican house, San Antonio, Texas 1939
"Bootmaker lining up a pair of boots. Cowboy boot shop, Alpine, Texas" 1939
Texan, Waco, Texas 1939
Wrestling match sponsored by American Legion, Sikeston, Missouri 1938
Fortune teller, state fair, Donaldsonville, Louisiana 1938
Kunming, China 1944
Children of miners look out the kitchen window of the Monroe Jones house. The windows have no panes, the door frames have no doors; old quilts and boxes are used during the winter for protection. Kentucky Straight Creek Coal Company, Belva Mine, abandoned after explosion Dec. 1945, Four Mile, Bell County, Kentucky 1946
Coal miner's child in grade school. Lejunior, Harlan County, Kentucky 1946
Double muggers waiting for their turn at the rodeo [at the Texas Cowboy Reunion], Stamford, Texas 1959
Oil refinery, Texas [shot for Standard Oil New Jersey] 1949