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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
Farmland in the vicinity of Mt. Sneffels, Ouray County, Colorado: photo by Russell Lee, October 1940
The world less ugly, the people less sad
Hay stack and automobiles of peach pickers, Delta County, Colorado: photo by Russell Lee, October 1940
A harvest ascending to the sky
Llano de San Juan, New Mexico, Catholic church: photo by Russell Lee, July or October 1940
Movement of clouds, the beautiful day
Stand of virgin ponderosa pine, Malheur National Forest, Grant County, Oregon: photo by Russell Lee, July 1942
Swept through us there, waiting
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
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
Farmland, cherry orchards and irrigation ditch at Emmett, Idaho: photo by Russell Lee, July 1941
The fullness disguised as bareness, remembering
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
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
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
