Farm Security Administration Migrant Worker Photographs 1937, 1941

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Farm Security Administration Migrant Worker Photographs 1937, 1941

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Photographs of Mexican or Mexican American agricultural workers in their families in the American Midwest taken by the New Deal agency Farm Security Administration.

19 8x10 in. photoprints, 18 4x5 in. photonegatives

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Benson Latin American Collection, General Libraries, The University of Texas at Austin

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SNAC Resource ID: 6646018

Benson Latin American Collection, General Libraries, The University of Texas at Austin

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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 ...

United States. Farm Security Administration. Historical Section

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Vachon, John

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