Monday, September 27, 2010

Russell Lee: Riches (Along the Million Dollar Highway)


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Rocks and stream along the Million Dollar Highway, Ouray County, Colorado
: photo by Russell Lee, October 1940

The golden silence rained


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Farmland in the vicinity of Mt. Sneffels, Ouray County, Colorado: photo by Russell Lee, October 1940

The world less ugly, the people less sad


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Hay stack and automobiles of peach pickers, Delta County, Colorado: photo by Russell Lee, October 1940

A harvest ascending to the sky


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Llano de San Juan, New Mexico, Catholic church: photo by Russell Lee, July or October 1940

Movement of clouds, the beautiful day


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Stand of virgin ponderosa pine, Malheur National Forest, Grant County, Oregon: photo by Russell Lee, July 1942

Swept through us there, waiting


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Horse breeding ranch, Grant County, Oregon: photo by Russell Lee, July 1942

In the world where we walked where we walked, saw what we saw


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Bands of sheep on the Gravelly Range at the foot of Black Butte, Madison County, Montana: photo by Russell Lee, August 1942

A world of the infinitely small


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Farmland, cherry orchards and irrigation ditch at Emmett, Idaho
: photo by Russell Lee, July 1941


The fullness disguised as bareness, remembering


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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: photo by Russell Lee, August 1942

Junipers shagged with ice


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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: photo by Russell Lee, August 1942

Awaiting the sapphire point of a tomorrow


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View of Mount Shasta, California: photo by Russell Lee, June 1942


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