Jim Norris, Homesteader, Pie Town, New Mexico
Russell Lee · 1940
Why it's great
Jim Norris, a homesteader in Pie Town, New Mexico, in 1940, photographed in rare color film by Russell Lee for the government. The color makes it feel as if the Depression is happening now.
🏛️ Part of history
The Great Depression (1929–1939) — Jim Norris, a homesteader in Pie Town, New Mexico, in 1940, photographed in rare color film by Russell Lee for the government.
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Russell Lee was an American photographer born in Ottawa, Illinois, in 1903. He worked for the Farm Security Administration, took thousands of pictures of rural life in the 1930s and 1940s, and later taught photography in Texas. He died in Austin in 1986.
