American photographer and photojournalist Russell Lee is best known for his work for the Farm Security Administration (FSA). His images documented the ethnography of various American classes and cultures. In New Orleans, Lee captures the leisure, labor, and exhaustion of New Orleans life during the Great Depression.

Title: American photographer and photojournalist Russell Lee is best known for his work for the Farm Security Administration (FSA). His images documented the ethnography of various American classes and cultures. In New Orleans, Lee captures the leisure, labor, and exhaustion of New Orleans life during the Great Depression.
Description: Russell Lee
Coverage: New Orleans, Louisiana
Date: September 1938
uri: LOT 1680; LOT 1685; LOT 1679

Media: Unloading oysters from packet boat arriving at New Orleans, Louisiana; Unloading oysters from packet boat arriving at New Orleans, Louisiana; Group of Italians talking, Decatur Street, New Orleans, Louisiana; Saloon, Decatur Street, New Orleans, Louisiana; Front of fisherman's supply house, Decatur Street, New Orleans, Louisiana; Sign, Decatur Street, New Orleans, Louisiana; Negro stevedores sleeping on pile of lumber on bow of packet boat on Mississippi River below New Orleans; Negro stevedores handling drums, New Orleans, Louisiana; Negro stevedores handling drum, New Orleans, Louisiana; Negro stevedores "snaking" drums down ramp to boat, New Orleans, Louisiana; First mate of packet boat El Rito sitting on ladder to boat deck, Louisiana; Carrying dry cleaned articles to store from boat, Burrwood. Articles to be cleaned must be sent to New Orleans; People sitting on dock, New Orleans, Louisiana; Negro stevedore carrying lumber on his head, New Orleans, Louisiana; Negro stevedore, with lumber on shoulder, New Orleans, Louisiana