Records of the Solid Fuels Administration for War. 1937 - 1948. Photographs of the Medical Survey of the Bituminous Coal Industry. 1946 - 1947. His grandfather was a miner for sixty years; his father is a miner now unable to work due to injuries received in a mine explosion. Kentucky Straight Creek
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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 ...
