San Antonio, Texas, Privy and Water Supply in the Mexican District
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San Antonio, Texas, Privy and Water Supply in the Mexican District
193920th Century
10 in. x 8 1/8 in. (25.4 cm x 20.64 cm)
Russell Lee, American, (1903–1986)
Object Type:
Photography and Video
Creation Place:
North America, United States
Medium and Support:
Gelatin silver print
Credit Line:
Gift of Susan Herzig and Paul M. Hertzmann
Accession Number:
2003.29.6
As a documentary photographer, Russell Lee took a special interest in disadvantaged and neglected communities. This image, taken at the tail end of the Great Depression, emphasizes the unsanitary and dangerous conditions many people were forced into through poverty, evidenced by the drinking water supply being placed right next to the outhouse, with no separation or distinction. Many of Lee’s photographs from the Mexican quarter of San Antonio depict similar situations of squalor and lack of support. These photographs were taken for the use of the Farm Security Administration, which was created by the New Deal in 1937 to try and combat rural poverty and help support very poor land-owning farmers. This piece displays the need for assistance in rural areas populated mostly by Mexican migrant workers, many of whom worked for those the FSA intended to support.
--Sydney Pearce, December 2020
--Sydney Pearce, December 2020
Exhibition List
This object was included in the following exhibitions:
- Shifting Perspectives Mills College Art Museum , 12/2/2020 - 3/7/2021
Dimensions
- Image Dimensions: 9 1/2 in. x 6 5/8 in. (24.13 cm x 16.83 cm)
- Mat Dimensions: 20 in. x 16 in. (50.8 cm x 40.64 cm)
- Sheet Dimensions: 10 x 8 1/8 in. (25.4 x 20.64 cm)
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