photos by Russell Lee
Little girl taking her nap at the Work Projects Administration nursery school at the Casa Grande Valley Farms, Pinal County, Arizona, 1940
Farm mother with children in town during the National Rice Festival, Crowley, Louisiana, 1938
Negro family with supplies in wagon ready to leave for the farm, Saturday afternoon, San Augustine, Texas, 1939
Farm woman using songbook as sunshade during dinner at all day community sing, Pie Town, New Mexico, 1940
Children of farmer sitting in automobile waiting for father to come out of general store, Jarreau, Louisiana, 1938
Day laborers, cotton pickers, in field, Lake Dick Project, Arkansas, 1938
FSA clients near Carutherville, Missouri, 1938
Husband and wife sitting on settee encamped by the roadside, Wagoner County, Oklahoma, 1939
Migrant child, near Harlingen, Texas, 1939
Veteran migrant worker and his wife camped in Wagoner County, Oklahoma, 1939
Young migratory couple living at the Agua Fria Migratory Labor Camp, Arizona, 1940
Boys on sacks of wool, Malheur County, Oregon, 1941
Group of people assembled under tree to listen to revival rally on Saturday afternoon, Tahlequah, Oklahoma, 1939
Group of Negro cotton pickers resting during lunch hour, Lehi, Arkansas, 1938
Lunch at FSA's migratory labor camp, Odell, Oregon, 1941
Mother of FSA client, Southeast Missouri Farms, 1938
Miner's family on top of truck watching Labor Day contests, Silverton, Colorado, 1940
Farmers and spectators at auction, Sikeston, Missouri, 1938
El Centro (vicinity), California. Young people at the Imperial County Fair, 1942
Cajun girl at National Rice Festival, Crowley, Louisiana, 1938
Cotton pickers resting while waiting to be paid. Lake Dick Project, Arkansas, 1938
Indian children in camp near Little Fork, Minnesota, 1937
Little boy taking his nap at the Work Projects Administration nursery school at the Casa Grande Valley Farms, Pinal County, Arizona, 1940
A family picnic on the Fourth of July at Vale, Oregon, 1941
Audience listening to orchestra playing outside grocery store on Saturday afternoon, Phoenix, Arizona, 1940
Children of migrants from west Texas sitting on mattresses just unloaded from trailer. Harlingen, Texas, 1939
Children of Alonzo Heath, farmer near Black River Falls, Wisconsin, 1937
Southeast Missouri Farms. FSA clients preparing greens for canning, 1938
Mexican beet workers, near Fisher, Minnesota, 1937
Eating dinner at the all day community sing, Pie Town, New Mexico, 1940
Family of FSA client, former sharecropper, on porch of old shack home, New Madrid County, Missouri, 1938
Gernie Marshall and family, near Ringgold, Iowa, 1937
Part of sharecropper family on porch of cabin, 1938
Mr. and Mrs. Andrew Ostermeyer, homesteaders, Miller Township, Woodbury County, Iowa, 1936
Farm children playing on homemade merry-go-round. Williams County, North Dakota, 1937
Children of day laborer work in cane fields near New Iberia, Louisiana, 1938
Children of FSA client, former sharecropper, Southeast Missouri Farms, 1938
Migrant agricultural workers camped near Vian, Oklahoma, 1939
Baby in crib, Earl Pauley's home near Smithland Iowa, 1936
Children of Frank Moody, Miller Township, Woodbury County, Iowa, 1936
Family of Henry McPeak, near Black River Falls, Wisconsin, 1937
Family of Glen Cook, who rents his farm from a loan company, Woodbury County, Iowa, 1936
Wife of carpenter and her baby who live in community camp, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, 1939
Heaping the plates at dinner on the grounds, all day community sing. Pie Town, New Mexico, 1940
Daughters of wage laborer working in the sugarcane fields near New Iberia, Louisiana, 1938
Children playing in the gutter on 139th Street just east of St. Anne's Avenue, Bronx, New York, 1936