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School Children Singing, Pie Town, New Mexico Russell Lee, 1940 Photograph
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School Children Singing, Pie Town, New Mexico

Russell Lee Β· 1940

Why it's great

Children sing together in a school in Pie Town, New Mexico, in 1940, in a color photograph by Russell Lee. Pie Town was a farming community in the Depression years.

πŸ›οΈ Part of history

The Great Depression (1929–1939) β€” Children sing together in a school in Pie Town, New Mexico, in 1940, in a color photograph by Russell Lee.

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About the artist

Russell Lee

1903–1986 Β· born in Ottawa Β· died in Austin

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.

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