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Saturday, 7 January 2012

Russell Lee: Windows: Outside Looking In

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Door and window of Spanish-American home, Costilla, New Mexico: photo by Russell Lee, July 1940

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Class in
window display at the San Diego Vocational School, San Diego, California
: photo by Russell Lee, June 1941

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Surrealistic window display, Bergdorf Goodman, New York City
: photo by Russell Lee, January 1938

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Washing windows of bar, Central Valley, California: photo by Russell Lee, December 1940

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Girl washing windows of cafe, Cook, Minnesota: photo by Russell Lee, August 1937


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Negro washing store window, Taylor, Texas: photo by Russell Lee, October 1939

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Little Mexican girl looking in window of her home. San Diego, California: photo by Russell Lee, May 1941


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Detail of window, Crystal City, Texas, Mexican section: photo by Russell Lee, March 1939

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Detail of construction of window in white farmer's house, McIntosh County, Oklahoma: photo by Russell Lee, June 1939

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Detail of window of sharecropper's cabin, New Madrid, Missouri photo by Russell Lee, May 1938

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Neckties being displayed in window, New Iberia, Louisiana: photo by Russell Lee, November 1938

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Sign in post office window announcing baby clinic, Taos, New Mexico: photo by Russell Lee, July 1940


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Sign in store window, Little Fork, Minnesota: photo by Russell Lee, August 1937

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Sign on store window in Yakima, Washington. The crop referred to is hops: photo by Russell Lee, September 1941

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Window shopping, Los Angeles, California: photo by Russell Lee, April 1942

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Sign in window. San Jose, California: photo by Russell Lee, June 1942

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Drugstore window, Ray, North Dakota
: photo by Russell Lee, October 1937

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Drugstore window, Ray, North Dakota
: photo by Russell Lee, October 1937

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Store window, Spencer, Iowa: photo by Russell Lee, December 1936

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Store window, Crosby, North Dakota
: photo by Russell Lee, November 1937

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Hardware store window, Crosby, North Dakota
: photo by Russell Lee, November 1937

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Hardware store window, Ontario, Oregon: photo by Russell Lee, June 1941

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Window display, Windsor Locks, Connecticut
: photo by Russell Lee, October 1939

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Farm family window shopping, Williston, North Dakota, Saturday afternoon
: photo by Russell Lee, October 1937

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Farmer looking at dry goods window, Steele, Missouri: photo by Russell Lee, August 1938

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Poster in drugstore window, Syracuse, Kansas
: photo by Russell Lee, August 1939

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Window in kitchen of house, Williams County, North Dakota. During dust storms in this area, windows have to be stuffed in this manner: photo by Russell Lee, October 1937

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Drugstore window, Washington. D.C.: photo by Russell Lee, January 1938

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Drugstore window, Washington. D.C.: photo by Russell Lee, January 1938

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Drugstore window, Washington. D.C.: photo by Russell Lee, January 1938

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Window of drug store, Washington. D.C.: photo by Russell Lee, January 1938


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

9 comments:

STEPHEN RATCLIFFE said...

Tom,

Another great set from a bygone era-- pictures worth 1000s of words -- "Blueberries/ Bought Here/ 10* A Quart," "Help!/ Save The/ Crop," "Shave/ Without Pain/ Or/ Whiskers Refunded". . . .

1.7

light coming into clouds above shadowed
plane of ridge, red-tailed hawk calling
in foreground, sound of wave in channel

in and and, at first almost
light flowing in from

light, juxtaposed states of
being, more than once

silver of low sun reflected in channel,
shadowed green pine on tip if sandspit

TC said...

Thanks for the good words, Steve.

juxtaposed states of
being,

then and now.

Russell Lee touched so many things, always with objectivity, always with respect, always with an attention to detail that's very moving to me.

These pasts otherwise lost...

awyn said...

Curtain rods for 9 cents, overalls, 49 cents, Mammy Lou butter creams, 33 cents. Franklin "blood stopper" in a hardware store, and a cafe named "Cheer". What a treat, these pictures today, a virtual museum of the past.

vazambam (Vassilis Zambaras) said...

Lost but of course, let's not
Forget Madeleine's lucky

Pitch throat finding
A friend in a light

Smoke.

TC said...

Thank you, awyn, that's the term, virtual museum -- an archeological dig, objects that comprise a "recovered" past, absolutely real (if absolutely gone)... and beyond all judgment.

And the prices are right.


Vassilis,

Well, about all one can say is, that gal Madeleine obviously had one tough throat (and let's hope the price was right).

Julia said...

Thanks, Tom. I enjoyed very much this sort of "window journey". (It's always a pleasure to fly with you)

TC said...

Julia, great to have you on board.

Next stop, Hector's Place, The Palace of Sweets.

ACravan said...

Tom -- these are astonishing. Every single one. And their ordering is poetic. Curtis

gretchen9449 said...

Great pics of the drugstore windows. Thanks for sharing.