Russell Lee - Mothers and Children, ctd

Here's another set of photos by Russell Lee of mothers and their children.

 Mrs. Paul Rauhauser and two of her seven children in their home at Ruthven, Iowa, 1936

 People living on river side of levee, Caruthersville, Missouri, 1938

 Spectators at the contests for miners at the Labor Day celebration, Silverton, Colorado, 1940

Tub of stringbeans in sharecropper's home, New Madrid County, Missouri, 1938

 Wife of carpenter and her baby who live in community camp, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, 1939

 Woman teaching children at home, Transylvania, Louisiana, 1939

 Woman and child, flood refugees in schoolhouse, Sikeston, Missouri, 1937

Young Indian mother and baby, blueberry camp, near Little Fork, Minnesota, 1937

Russell Lee - Mothers and Children

Here's another set from Russell Lee. Mother with their children. There's something very primal about all of these images.

 Agricultural workers wait in the clinic at the FSA farm workers community,
Woodville, California, 1942

 Farmer's wife washing clothes and watching son at same time, near Morganza, Louisiana, 1938

 Mexican mother and child in doorway, San Antonio, Texas, 1939

 Mexican mother and child in home. Crystal City, Texas. 

This woman had given birth to baby on bed while she had an advanced case of gonorrhea, 1939

 Mexican woman and son looking out of window into corral, San Antonio, Texas, 1939

 Mother and child of agricultural day laborers family encamped
near Spiro, Sequoyah County, Oklahoma, 1939

 Mother and child, FSA clients, former sharecroppers,
just before moving to Southeast Missouri Farms, 1938

Mrs. John Scott, wife of a hired man, with one of her six children, near Ringgold, Iowa, 1937

G. G. Bain

George Grantham Bain was a prolific photographer in the late 1800s and early 1900s. He founded a news photography agency. Over 40,000 Bain service photos can be seen in raw form at the Library of Congress.

 Actors Benefit for Crippled Children, 1908

 Actors' strike, New York, 1919

[It's a sea of boaters!]

 Anatomy Class circa 1905

 Babe Ruth and John McGraw, 1923

[Here are two of the most iconic figures in baseball history.]

 Children in swings, Hamilton Fish Park, New York

 Children playing in steerage, Friedrich der Grosse

[The Friedrich der Grosse was a civilian passenger liner in the late 1800s.]

 Delivering matzos & matza flour, 1908

 East Side women discussing price of meat during meat boycott, 1910

[The 1910 meat boycott, to protest high prices,
began in Cleveland, Ohio and spread across the nation.]

Flathead Indians holding family gatherings on the west side of Glacier National Park