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November 1941. "Mr. and Mrs. Lee Wagoner Wagner, who farm on the Black Canyon Project. Canyon County, Idaho." Photo by Russell Lee, Farm Security Administration. View full size.
October 1941. Cowlitz County, Washington. "Holdings and operations of the Long Bell Lumber Company. Highway goes under wooden trestle for railroad." Medium format acetate negative by Russell Lee for the Farm Security Administration. View full size.
October 1941. "Waterfront of Bay City, Oregon, a fishing town." Medium format acetate negative by Russell Lee for the Farm Security Administration. View full size.
September 1941. Hermiston, Oregon. "When workmen at the Umatilla ordnance depot broke a world record by pouring concrete for twenty-four igloos in twenty-four hours, the contractor threw a beer party for them." (The "igloos" were concrete bunkers for storing munitions.) Medium format acetate negative by Russell Lee. View full size.
September 1941. Hermiston, Oregon. "Housing for workmen at the Umatilla ordnance depot discloses its temporary nature by the unfinished interior." Medium format acetate negative by Russell Lee for the Farm Security Administration. View full size.
September 1941. Hermiston, Oregon. "Crowded halls in high school between classes." Another look at the Kids in the Hall last seen here, including That Guy With the Eyebrows. Medium format acetate negative by Russell Lee for the Farm Security Administration. View full size.
September 1941. "By the Pacific Ocean. Seaside, Oregon." Medium format acetate negative by Russell Lee for the Farm Security Administration. View full size.
October 1941. "Lumberjack ready to sink the hook into a log. Long Bell Lumber Company, Cowlitz County, Washington." Acetate negative by Russell Lee. View full size.
September 1941. "High school boys and girls. Hermiston, Oregon." Medium format acetate negative by Russell Lee for the Farm Security Administration. View full size.
September 1941. "Sign. Seaside, Oregon." Medium format acetate negative by Russell Lee for the Farm Security Administration. View full size.
September 1941. "Traffic on main street of Hermiston, Oregon. Defense boom town housing workers for the Umatilla Ordnance Depot." Acetate negative by Russell Lee. View full size.
October 1941. Bremerton, Washington. "Navy shipyard workers in the community room for women at the FSA duration dormitories." Medium format acetate negative by Russell Lee for the Farm Security Administration. View full size.
July 1941. "Farming land as seen from Whitebird Hill. Idaho County, Idaho." Medium format acetate negative by Russell Lee for the Farm Security Administration. View full size.
February 1940. "Secondhand store. Oklahoma City, Oklahoma." Medium format acetate negative by Russell Lee for the Farm Security Administration. View full size.
July 1941. "Harrowing summer fallow (wheat land). Nez Perce County, Idaho." Medium format acetate negative by Russell Lee for the Farm Security Administration. View full size.