Russell LeePhotograph Collection, 1938-1942

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Russell LeePhotograph Collection, 1938-1942

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The collection consists of 71 vintage silvergelatin prints created in conjunction with the Farm Security Administration(FSA) 1938-1942. In addition to the 67 photographs by Russell Lee, thecollection includes two prints by Wayne Albee, one by Dorothea Lange, and oneby an unknown photographer. Organized into four series: I. Agua Fria MigratoryFarm Workers Camp. II. Arizona Part-time Farms, Chandler Unit. III. Casa GrandeValley Farms, Pinal County. IV. Lee Miscellaneous, Unidentified or Non-Lee.arranged by set and photographer.

1.25 linear feet

University of Arizona Libraries, Library Special Collections

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SNAC Resource ID: 6633990

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Albee, Wayne

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United States. Works Progress Administration

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Organizational History President Franklin D. Roosevelt established the Works Progress Administration (WPA) in 1935 as a part of his New Deal to curtail the Depression's effects on the United States. The WPA attempted to provide the unemployed with jobs that allowed individuals to preserve skills or talents. The Federal Writers' Project (FWP), one branch of the WPA, provided work for over 6,600 unemployed writers, journalists, edit...

United States. Farm Security Administration

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The Farm Security Administration (FSA) was established within the United States Department of Agriculture to implement the provisions of the Bankhead-Jones Tenant Act of 1937. The agency also took over certain functions of its predecessor, the Resettlement Administration (RA). The FSA made available and administered long-term loans to tenants and sharecroppers, loaned funds to rural cooperatives, and operated camps for migrant farm workers. The FSA was abolished in 1946; the Farmers Home Adminis...

United States. Resettlement Administration

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Lange, Dorothea, 1895-1965

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Dorothea Lange (1895-1965), American documentary photographer and photojournalist, was born Dorothea Margarette Nutzhorn in Hoboken, New Jersey. She worked for the Farm Security Administration during the Great Depression. From the description of Lange, Dorothea, 1895-1965 (U.S. National Archives and Records Administration). naId: 10582293 In the spring of 1942, Dorothea Lange was hired by the War Relocation Authority to document the movement of Japanese-Americans during relo...

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 ...