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Agriculture

Bumper Crop: 1941

July 1941. "Adding new storage space to wheat elevator at Dayton, Washington. High yields of wheat this year were taxing storage facilities; they were getting ready for a bumper crop." Acetate negative by Russell Lee. View full size.

July 1941. "Adding new storage space to wheat elevator at Dayton, Washington. High yields of wheat this year were taxing storage facilities; they were getting ready for a bumper crop." Acetate negative by Russell Lee. View full size.

 

Dairy Inspector: 1941

June 1941. "The cat drinks foamy, fresh milk. Dairymen's Cooperative Creamery. Caldwell, Canyon County, Idaho." Medium format acetate negative by Russell Lee for the Farm Security Administration. View full size.

June 1941. "The cat drinks foamy, fresh milk. Dairymen's Cooperative Creamery. Caldwell, Canyon County, Idaho." Medium format acetate negative by Russell Lee for the Farm Security Administration. View full size.

 

Route Forty-Nine: 1939

November 1939. "Truck with bales of cotton from Hopson Planting Company gin going up highway to warehouse near Clarksdale, Mississippi Delta." Photo by Marion Post Wolcott for the Farm Security Administration. View full size.

November 1939. "Truck with bales of cotton from Hopson Planting Company gin going up highway to warehouse near Clarksdale, Mississippi Delta." Photo by Marion Post Wolcott for the Farm Security Administration. View full size.

 

Heavy Cream: 1940

November 1940. "Tulare County, California. Son of worker weighing up milk at Mineral King cooperative farm. Accurate milk records of each cow are kept." Photo by Russell Lee for the Farm Security Administration. View full size.

November 1940. "Tulare County, California. Son of worker weighing up milk at Mineral King cooperative farm. Accurate milk records of each cow are kept." Photo by Russell Lee for the Farm Security Administration. View full size.

 

Character Study: 1940

May 1940. "Farm Security Administration client Roger Spence and two of his sons. Two miles out of Princess Anne, Maryland." Medium format acetate negative by Jack Delano for the FSA. View full size.

May 1940. "Farm Security Administration client Roger Spence and two of his sons. Two miles out of Princess Anne, Maryland." Medium format acetate negative by Jack Delano for the FSA. View full size.

 

Twenty-Mule Team: 1941

July 1941. "Twenty-mule-team-drawn combine. Walla Walla County, Washington. This outfit gets to work at 6 in the morning. Knocks off at 11 for rest, food and water for mules and men, goes back to work at 1 and works till 6." Medium format negative by Russell Lee for the Farm Security Administration. View full size.

July 1941. "Twenty-mule-team-drawn combine. Walla Walla County, Washington. This outfit gets to work at 6 in the morning. Knocks off at 11 for rest, food and water for mules and men, goes back to work at 1 and works till 6." Medium format negative by Russell Lee for the Farm Security Administration. View full size.

 

Baby Steps: 1941

June 1941. "Farm worker's wife teaches her baby girl to walk at the FSA labor camp. Caldwell, Idaho." Medium format negative by Russell Lee. View full size.

June 1941. "Farm worker's wife teaches her baby girl to walk at the FSA labor camp. Caldwell, Idaho." Medium format negative by Russell Lee. View full size.

 

Rural Pacification: 1941

May 1941. "Farm worker with his wife and their twin babies at the FSA  migratory labor camp mobile unit. Wilder, Idaho." Medium format acetate negative by Russell Lee for the Farm Security Administration. View full size.

May 1941. "Farm worker with his wife and their twin babies at the FSA migratory labor camp mobile unit. Wilder, Idaho." Medium format acetate negative by Russell Lee for the Farm Security Administration. View full size.

 

This Land: 1940

December 1940. "Japanese fruit farmer and his son. Placer County, California." Photo by Russell Lee for the Farm Security Administration. View full size.

December 1940. "Japanese fruit farmer and his son. Placer County, California." Photo by Russell Lee for the Farm Security Administration. View full size.

 

Box Elder County: 1940

August 1940. Box Elder County, Utah. "Farm Security Administration cooperative tractor." Medium format negative by Russell Lee for the FSA. View full size.

August 1940. Box Elder County, Utah. "Farm Security Administration cooperative tractor." Medium format negative by Russell Lee for the FSA. View full size.

 

Utopian Picnic: 1936

July 1936. "Hillhouse, Mississippi. Girls with food for Fourth of July celebration at Delta Cooperative Farm settled by evicted sharecroppers from Arkansas, organized in 1935 by Sherwood Eddy, a New York writer and reformer." Photo by Dorothea Lange for the Farm Security Administration. View full size.

July 1936. "Hillhouse, Mississippi. Girls with food for Fourth of July celebration at Delta Cooperative Farm settled by evicted sharecroppers from Arkansas, organized in 1935 by Sherwood Eddy, a New York writer and reformer." Photo by Dorothea Lange for the Farm Security Administration. View full size.

 

Modern Ranch: 1940

November 1940. Tulare County, California. "One of the homes at Mineral King cooperative farm, an old ranch of 500 acres raising cotton, alfalfa, and dairy products for cash crops. Ten families [including the Schmidts] have been established here by the Farm Security Administration in modern houses." Forerunner of the suburban ranch house that characterized so much postwar residential development. Medium format negative by Russell Lee. View full size.

November 1940. Tulare County, California. "One of the homes at Mineral King cooperative farm, an old ranch of 500 acres raising cotton, alfalfa, and dairy products for cash crops. Ten families [including the Schmidts] have been established here by the Farm Security Administration in modern houses." Forerunner of the suburban ranch house that characterized so much postwar residential development. Medium format negative by Russell Lee. View full size.

 

Government Mules: 1939

September 1939. "Ernest W. Kirk Jr., whose team of mules was bought with a Farm Security Administration loan. Near Ordway, Colorado." Medium format negative by Russell Lee for the Farm Security Administration. View full size.

September 1939. "Ernest W. Kirk Jr., whose team of mules was bought with a Farm Security Administration loan. Near Ordway, Colorado." Medium format negative by Russell Lee for the Farm Security Administration. View full size.

 

But Seriously: 1940

August 1940. "Farm Security Administration cooperative truck. Oneida County, Idaho." Medium format negative by Russell Lee for the FSA. View full size.

August 1940. "Farm Security Administration cooperative truck. Oneida County, Idaho." Medium format negative by Russell Lee for the FSA. View full size.

 

The Egg and I: 1940

May 1940. "Member of the Arizona part-time farms (last seen here), Chandler Unit, in bedroom of his apartment on the project studying for civil service examination in poultry culture. Maricopa County, Arizona." Medium format negative by Russell Lee for the Farm Security Administration. View full size.

May 1940. "Member of the Arizona part-time farms (last seen here), Chandler Unit, in bedroom of his apartment on the project studying for civil service examination in poultry culture. Maricopa County, Arizona." Medium format negative by Russell Lee for the Farm Security Administration. View full size.

 
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