Hey to Your Mama N'em

Family with supplies in wagon ready to leave for the farm, Saturday afternoon, San Augustine, Texas

April 1939

Russell Lee, photographer

U.S. Farm Security Administration/Office of War Information Collection, Library of Congress

Sharecropper and his baby. The family was resettled as part of a New Deal project aimed at transforming tenant farmers to landowners.

Transylvania, Louisiana, January 1939

Russell Wilson, photographer

Library of Congress

The bar at Palm Tavern, Negro restaurant on 47th Street, Chicago, Illinois, April 1941

Russell Lee, photographer

Farm Security Collection, Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, NY Public Library Digital Collection

Farm Security Administration Collection, NYPL Digital Gallery

Kitchen of apartment, South Side of Chicago, Illinois, April 1941

Russell Lee, photographer

Farm Security Administration Collection, NYPL Digital Gallery

Boys atop billboard, National Rice Festival, Crowley, Louisiana

October 1938

Russell Lee, photographer

OWI/FSA Collection, Library of Congress

Pastor of the Pentacostal church. Chicago, Illinois

April 1941

Russell Lee, photographer

Farm Security Administration - Office of War Information Photograph Collection (Library of Congress)

(Source: loc.gov)

Dining room of Negro family which is on relief. Chicago, Illinois, April 1941

Russell Lee, photographer

Library of Congress, FSA/OWI Collection

Negro woman praying at grave of son in cemetery at New Roads, Louisiana on All Saints’ Day

November 1938

Russell Lee, photographer

Street vendor in front of movie theater in Waco, Texas (1939)

Russell Lee, photographer.

Russell Lee – “Snake Eater” (1938)