Russell Lee: Everything Must Go


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Image, Source: intermediary roll film

Signboard on land near Iron River, Michigan: photo by Russell Lee, April 1937

Image, Source: digital file from intermediary roll film

Sign advertising land for farm purposes, pine area, New Jersey: photo by Russell Lee, January 1938

Image, Source: intermediary roll film

Los Angeles, California. Auction sale sign in Little Tokyo. The stock belongs to a Japanese subject to evacuation from West Coast areas under Army war emergency order: photo by Russell Lee, April 1942

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Sign of farm for sale, Malheur County, Oregon. The notice of eighty shares of water is indicative of the dependence of agriculture on irrigation water: photo by Russell Lee, May 1937

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Auctioning pigs at Frank Sheroan's closing-out sale near Montmorenci, Indiana: photo by Russell Lee, February 1937

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Notice which appeared in a Montmorenci, Indiana newspaper. Frank Sheroan sale: photo by Russell Lee, February 1937

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Men taking bed apart at S.W. Sparlin auction sale, Orth, Minnesota, photo by Russell Lee, August 1937

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Goods to be auctioned at Sparlin sale, Orth, Minnesota, photo by Russell Lee, August 1937

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Farmer at S.W. Sparlin's auction sale, Orth, Minnesota, photo by Russell Lee, August 1937

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Speculators at S.W. Sparlin's auction sale, Orth, Minnesota, photo by Russell Lee, August 1937

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The auctioneer at S.W. Sparlin sale, Orth, Minnesota, photo by Russell Lee, August 1937

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Group of children at Sparlin sale, Orth, Minnesota, photo by Russell Lee, August 1937

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An old farmer at the Sparlin auction sale, Orth, Minnesota, photo by Russell Lee, August 1937

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Women at the Sparlin auction sale, Orth, Minnesota, photo by Russell Lee, August 1937


Photos by Russell Lee from Farm Security Administration/Office of War Information Collection, Library of Congress