Records of the Solid Fuels Administration for War. 1937 - 1948. Photographs of the Medical Survey of the Bituminous Coal Industry. 1946 - 1947. Mr. and Mrs. Tommy Swafford and their son in the doorway of their four room house; they pay $9 monthly rental plus $2.50 for electricity. They carry water 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. Mr. and Mrs. Tommy Swafford and their son in the doorway of their four room house; they pay $9 monthly rental plus $2.50 for electricity. They carry water from outside well, have outside privy; there are no garbage collections. The house contains one closet in a bedroom and a built-in pantry in kitchen. Panther Red Ash Coal Corporation, Douglas Mine, Panther, McDowell 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 ...