Records of the Solid Fuels Administration for War. 1937 - 1948. Photographs of the Medical Survey of the Bituminous Coal Industry. 1946 - 1947. Row of houses in company housing project. This area was flooded about June 1, 1946, when storm sewer (left center in picture) broke. Several families were f

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Records of the Solid Fuels Administration for War. 1937 - 1948. Photographs of the Medical Survey of the Bituminous Coal Industry. 1946 - 1947. Row of houses in company housing project. This area was flooded about June 1, 1946, when storm sewer (left center in picture) broke. Several families were forced to move belongings to second floors of houses. Pursglove Coal Mining Company, Pursglove #2 Mine, Pursglove, Monongalia County, West Virginia.

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Lee, Russell, 1903-1986

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Russell Lee was born in Ottawa, Illinois on 21 July 1903. His childhood, although of comfortable middle-class rural American heritage, was marred by tragedy. His parents were divorced in 1908, when Lee was five, and his mother was killed in an accident in 1913. Lee was then passed between various relatives and guardians until he returned to Ottawa to be raised by family friends. He became interested in photography in 1931 while married to his first wife, artist Doris Emmrick. She introduced him ...