Lee came to Pie Town as part of an FSA project to document how the Depression had ravaged rural America. Or as the Magdalena News put it in its issue of June 6, 1940: “Mr. Lee of Dallas, Texas, is staying in Pietown, taking pictures of most anything he can find. Mr. Lee is a photographer for the United States department of agriculture. Most of the farmers are planting beans this week.”
I stumbled on photos taken by Lee in Pie Town,NM in 1940...mostly of homesteaders during the deprression. I find that perusing through the various photo from the Library of Congress ( access via Flickr) to be really addicting.....
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