The Russell Lee Collection Melissa (Calabria, Italy) 1960 New York City, 1936 Little girls getting tickets for the merry-go-round at the carnival on the Fourth of July. Vale, Oregon 1941 John Adams, homesteader. He drags ties down from the mountains with his burros to get some cash to get his farm started. He always has time to help a neighbor build a dugout or do any other heavy work. Pie Town, New Mexico 1940 The Whinery children playing in their house. Pie Town, New Mexico 1940 Pie Town, New Mexico. A community settled by about 200 migrant Texas and Oklahoma farmers who have filed homestead claims. Josie Caudill looking over slab fence on her father's farm 1940 Pie Town, New Mexico. A community settled by about 200 migrant Texas and Oklahoma farmers who filed homestead claims. Wife of homesteader with WPA music class. These children walk eight miles for their music lessons 1940 Jigger at the square dance. Pie Town, New Mexico 1940 Cable tool driller in Seminole Oil Field, Oklahoma 1939 White migrant mother with children, Weslaco, Texas 1939 Kitchen of Mexican house, San Antonio, Texas 1939 "Bootmaker lining up a pair of boots. Cowboy boot shop, Alpine, Texas" 1939 Texan, Waco, Texas 1939 Wrestling match sponsored by American Legion, Sikeston, Missouri 1938 Fortune teller, state fair, Donaldsonville, Louisiana 1938 Kunming, China 1944 Children of miners look out the kitchen window of the Monroe Jones house. The windows have no panes, the door frames have no doors; old quilts and boxes are used during the winter for protection. Kentucky Straight Creek Coal Company, Belva Mine, abandoned after explosion Dec. 1945, Four Mile, Bell County, Kentucky 1946 Coal miner's child in grade school. Lejunior, Harlan County, Kentucky 1946 Double muggers waiting for their turn at the rodeo [at the Texas Cowboy Reunion], Stamford, Texas 1959 Oil refinery, Texas [shot for Standard Oil New Jersey] 1949