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Make Our School a Place of Art and History

We'd like to cover the walls of our school with beautifully printed and framed Russell Lee photographs. Help us do that by sponsoring a print of your choice.

Project by: Russell Lee Elementary School

Backers

Cathryne McNamara

Oct 26, 7:54am

$100.00

April 1941... Boys on Easter morning, Southside Chicago. Acetate negative by

For our love Wade, who understands we do not choose the conditions into which we are born, who realizes we are all more the same than different and who wants to help everyone... Happy Birthday to you, empathizing soul, we love you. Cathryne, Lucia and Elliot

Suzanne van der Feest

Oct 20, 9:57am

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Boys at National Rice Festival, Crowley, Louisiana

So much going on in this photo - different dresses, most kids focusing on the activity in front of them that we cannot see. But two boys are aware of the camera and giving it a weary look, the same look we can still see in kids nowadays when we pull yet another camera at them!

Kellie Eiler-Leifeste

Oct 18, 5:06pm

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Daughter of migrant in doorway of trailer, Sebastin, Texas

This image represents the history and the future of the Leifeste family which includes 3 generations of Lee Elementary students and a current staff member, Philip, Nigel, Kellie & Evelyn Leifeste. Proud members of the Russell Lee Elementary Roadrunner Family.

Eugenie Long

Oct 17, 6:38am

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Old resident of Crystal City, Texas now living on town relief. He was an oldtime trail driver

This photo reminds me of my father. All that's missing is his beloved pipe.

Kristin, Matt & Arlo Irving

Oct 15, 3:52pm

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Child of farmer sitting in automobile waiting…

Caren Pinzur

Oct 13, 3:35pm

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1939 Feb. girl with baby sister in front of hut

Erin Buckingham

Oct 13, 2:48pm

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Schoolchildren waiting in line to go to the movies, San Augustine, Texas

Lee school fundraiser for photos

John Hewlett

Oct 12, 5:18pm

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Shoeshine boy

I love this picture. It reminds me of so many of our kids today and that hairstyle has stood the test of time.

Daniel Oppenheimer

May 08, 1:12pm

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From the Grogan/Oppenheimer family: Gideon, Asa, Jolie, Jessica, and Daniel

Eugenie Long

May 02, 3:40pm

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Perks

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Untitled photo, possibly related to: East Texan, Jacksonville, Texas

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Untitled (baker and friends), Corpus Christi, TX, 1949

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1939 Feb. girl with baby sister in front of hut

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A sick child sleeping in trailer home of his father

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April 1941... Boys on Easter morning, Southside Chicago. Acetate negative by

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Butte, Montana. Part of Columbia Gardens, an outdoor amusement resort

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Butte, Montana. Porch of pavilion at Columbia Gardens

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Mexican carrot worker near Edinburg, Texas

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Child of farmer sitting in automobile waiting…

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Couples at square dance, McIntosh County, Oklahoma

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Distributing surplus commodities, St. Johns, Ariz

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Freighter outbound from the Port of Houston, Houston, Texas

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Grain elevators, Caldwell, Idaho

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Japanese-American camp, war emergency evacuation, [Tule Lake Relocation Center, Newell, Calif.

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Japanese-American child waiting for a train to take her

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Jerry, famous Taos Indian, artist's model and fisherman, Taos, New Mexico

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Jim Norris, homesteader, Pie Town, New Mexico, 1940

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Little girl petting calf. Tenant purchase client near Weslaco, Texas

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Migrant boy removing guitar before family leaves for California.

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Musicians in cajun band contest at National Rice Festival. Crowley, Louisiana

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Negro musicians playing accordion and washboard in automobile. Near New Iberia, Louisiana

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Negro musicians playing accordion and washboard in front of store, near New Iberia, Louisiana

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Sabine Farms homesteaders sign contract for medical care with Dr. A.O. Lee, Negro physician of Marshall, Texas

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Sign near Weslaco, Texa

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Spectators at auction of horses at the west Texas stockyards, San Angelo, Texas

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Sun bathers at the park swimming pool in Caldwell, Idaho

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Texan, Waco, Texas

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The evacuation of Japanese-Americans from West Coast areas under U.S. Army war emergency order Japanese try to sell their belongings

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Truckload of baskets for citrus fruit, Pharr, Texas

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Untitled photo, possibly related to: East Texas farm owner near Harleton, Texas

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Untitled photo, possibly related to: Spanish-American musicians at fiesta, Taos, New Mexico

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West Texans sitting on fence at horse auction, Eldorado, Texas

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West Texans sitting on top of grandstand roof at horse auction, Eldorado, Texas

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Wheat land, Walla Walla, Washingto

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White migrant and his wife in trailer home near Sebastian, Texas.

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White migrant worker leaning on headlamp of his car near Harlingen, Texas.

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Winner at the Delta County Fair, Colorado

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Japanese-American camp, war emergency evacuation, [Tule Lake Relocation Center, Newell, Calif.

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Shoeshine boy

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Saturday morning shoppers

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watch repair man, san antonio

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Playing bingo and a church party

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A city bus. San Antonio.

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These boys were born in this house

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Parking meters and parked automobiles. San Antonio

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host for your toast. San Antonio

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Children who live in a slum corral

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at a district meeting of the pan-American progressive association (PAPA)

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Printer at the Munguia printing plant

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at a church bingo party

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Detail of tenement house, southern section of El Paso

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Spanish-speaking girl at doorway to her apartment home in tenement house

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Spanish-speaking boy peering out of door of apartment in tenement house

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interior of a bar

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tenement houses

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Spanish-speaking boys in their apartment home in tenement house

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Man with sign, New York City, ca. 1935-1936

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Basilica and town, Matera, Italy, 1960

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Couple, Monterotondo, Italy, 1960

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Lake and Beach, Nova Scotia, ca. 1951-52

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Men bargaining at meat market, Sicily, 1960

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Oil exploration crew with truck, Saudi Arabia, 1955

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Vegetable garden, Piazza Armerina, Sicily, 1960

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Woman of Calabria, Italy, 1960

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Father Divine followers, New York, ca. 1935-1936

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Veteran studying for night class

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Texas Confederate Veterans Home, Austin, Texas, 1959

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young man on street corner, Rockdale, August 1951

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Young cowboys at Austin Livestock Show, 1954

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South-western Colorado

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First snow of the season in the foothills of the Little Belt Mountains, Lewis and Clark National Forest, Meagher County, Montana

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Scrap and salvage depot, Butte, Montana

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Cattle in corrals on ranch, Beaverhead County, Mont

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View of Mount Shasta, Calif.

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Shasta dam under construction, California

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Jack Whinery and his family, homesteaders, Pie Town, New Mexico

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Jack Whinery, homesteader, with his wife and the youngest of his five children, Pie Town, New Mexico

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Saying grace before the barbeque dinner at the Pie Town, New Mexico Fair

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School children singing, Pie Town, New Mexico

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Serving pinto beans at the Pie Town, New Mexico Fair barbeque

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Jim Norris and wife, homesteaders, Pie Town, New Mexico

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Mr. Leatherman, homesteader, tying up cauliflower, Pie Town, New Mexico

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Faro and Doris Caudill, homesteaders, Pie Town, New Mexico

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Children asleep on bed during square dance, McIntosh County, Okla.

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Million dollar highway [U.S. 550] is cut through massive rocks in Ouray County, Colorado

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Cherry orchards, farm lands and irrigation ditch at Emmett, Idaho

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Road cut into the barren hills which lead into Emmett, Idaho

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Shrimp fisherman, squatter on Nueces Bay, erecting wind charger for running his radio. Corpus Christi, Texas

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Part of Corpus Christi, Texas with freighter passing through drawbridge

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Migrant father and daughter near Harlingen, Texas

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Poster in real estate window, Harlingen, Texas

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Sign, Harlingen, Texas (reflection of Russell Lee)

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Waiting for the movie to open, Sunday afternoon, Pharr, Texas

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Former cowboy now traveling around the country. He is supported by a private income. Weslaco, Texas

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White migrant and his wife in camp near Sebastian, Texas.

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Sign showing need for replacing parts in tractors, Robstown, Texas

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Children of white migrants from west Texas sitting on mattresses just unloaded from trailer. Harlingen, Texas

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Son of spinach grower, La Pryor, Texas

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Man erecting sign near Alice, Texas

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Men leaning on mailbox, Crystal City, Texas

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Old resident of Crystal City, Texas now living on town relief. He was an oldtime trail driver

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Front of cafe, Crystal City, Texas

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Monument erected to Popeye, Crystal City, Texas

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Men sitting along railroad platform waiting for work as day laborers, Raymondville, Texas

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Houses at Port Aransas, Texas

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Pigeon cote of Mexican farmer near Combes, Texas

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Sign on causeway from Port Aransas to Pass Aransas, Texas

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Front of hardware store, Corpus Christi, Texas

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Daughter of migrant in doorway of trailer, Sebastin, Texas

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Mexican boy in front of community water hydrant and sink, San Antonio, Texas

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Funeral director, Mexican district, San Antonio, Texas

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Mexican barber, San Antonio, Texas

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Proprietor of credit clothing store in Mexican district, San Antonio, Texas

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Window shoppers and sign on department store window, Mexican district, San Antonio, Texas

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Mexican boys peering through grating in sidewalk, San Antonio, Texas

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Sign on side of shoe shine parlor, San Antonio, Texas

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Street scene, San Augustine, Texas

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Schoolchildren waiting in line to go to the movies, San Augustine, Texas

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Baseball game at recess, San Augustine grade school, San Augustine, Texas

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Schoolchildren jumping rope, San Augustine, Texa

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Negro farmers talking on the streets of San Augustine, Texas

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Itinerant preacher broadcasting to his audience by means of public address system on streets of Marshall, Texas

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Sign, Quemado, Texas: Helpy-Selfy Laundry--We Use Maytags

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Carrying mesquite to be burned in process of clearing land, El Indio, Texas

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Little boy cutting up inner tube, El Indio, Texas

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Fascism and Uncle Sam sign on box car, Crystal City, Texas

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Oil field worker, Kilgore, Texas

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Oil field worker drinking water, Kilgore, Texas

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Night baseball, Marshall, Texas

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Mass meeting of San Augustine County residents gathered to discuss methods of raising funds to continue WPA (Work Projects Administration) roadwork, San Augustine, Texas

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Displaying a horse for sale on the streets of Alpine, Texas

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Sewing cap into toe of boot. Cowboy bootmaking shop, Alpine, Texas

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Untitled photo, possibly related to: Trimming edge of inner sole. Boot shop, Alpine, Texas

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Oil worker eating lunch, Kilgore, Texas

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Old Negro (former slave) Willis Winn with horn with which slaves were called. Near Marshall, Texas

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School at Pie Town, New Mexico is held at the Farm Bureau Building

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Children resting during recess at a rural school near Tipler, Wisconsin

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Daughter of farmers near La Forge Project, Missouri. Southeast Missouri Farms schoo

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Six-man football, Wildrose, Williams County, North Dakota. High schools have fallen off so much in attendance that many smaller towns play with six men instead of eleven

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High school horse performs before children of construction workers at Summit City School, Summit City, California

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School buses in front of consolidated school. Lake Center, Clay County, Iowa

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Untitled photo, possibly related to: Negro man slashes bale of cotton to take sample as it passes him on a hand truck. Cotton compress, Houston, Texas

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Schoolchildren drinking from the water pump, Southeast Missouri Farms

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Negro Preacher reading the scriptures to Negro man, San Antonio, Texas

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Group of people assembled under tree to listen to revival rally on Saturday afternoon, Tahlequah, Oklahoma

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People gathered in square on Saturday afternoon to listen to religious rally, Tahlequah, Oklahoma

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William Grant, president of the Holy Ghost Society at Petaluma, California

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Tulare County, California. FSA (Farm Security Administration) farm workers' camp. Putting up flags for the President's birthday ball

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Mr. Besson, president of the literary society holds the lamp for Mrs. Caudill, secretary, during a song at the literary society. Pie Town, New Mexico

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Roustabout; a painter. Seminole oil field, Oklahoma

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Sign painter, Sioux City, Iowa

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Snake eater, sideshow, Donaldsonville, Louisiana

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Fortune teller, state fair, Donaldsonville, Louisiana

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Negro boys sitting on bench on street, Waco, Texa

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At the Pie Town Fair, Sept. 1940

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Girls waiting for Episcopal Church to end so they can see the processional, South Side of Chicago, Illinois

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Cajun orchestra at fais-do-do dance near Crowley, Louisiana

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Men's section at fais-do-do near Crowley, Louisiana. Note ticket taker

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Pianist in cajun band contest. National Rice Festival, Crowley, Louisiana

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Farmer at National Rice Festival taking a rest, Crowley, Louisiana

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Cajun girl at National Rice Festival, Crowley, Louisiana

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Boys at National Rice Festival, Crowley, Louisiana

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Princesses, National Rice Festival, Crowley, Louisian

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Clarinet players, Southwestern University band, National Rice Festival, Crowley, Louisiana

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Girl taking picture of crowd, National Rice Festival, Crowley, Louisiana

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National Rice Festival, Crowley, Louisiana

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Truck driver, Seminole oil field, Oklahoma

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