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Title: A veteran and his house
Identifier: e_rl_13943iief_0011
Creator: Lee, Russell, 1903-1986
Topic: Latin Americans, Housing
Dates: 1949
Resource: Russell Lee photograph collection
Description: A veteran employed in the city bought this lot and small house in Molina addition, adjacent to the airport and outside the city limits. He bought the trailer and moved it out to live in. No I don't want any GI house. They want too much for them. War workers lived in trailers, so why can't I? he said. His wife will have a store selling patent medicines in the small house. Corpus Christi, Texas.

Title: A veteran and his house
Identifier: e_rl_13943iief_0012
Creator: Lee, Russell, 1903-1986
Topic: Latin Americans, Housing
Dates: 1949
Resource: Russell Lee photograph collection
Description: A veteran employed in the city bought this lot and small house in Molinas addition, adjacent to the airpor and outside the city limits. He bought a trailer and moved it out to live in. No I don't want any GI house. They want too much for them. War workers lived in trailers, so why can't I? he said. His wife will have a store selling patent medicines in the small house. Corpus Christi, Texas.

Title: Veteran studying for night class
Identifier: e_rl_13918bc_0012
Creator: Lee, Russell, 1903-1986
Topic: Latin Americans, Veterans, Barbershops
Dates: 1949
Resource: Russell Lee photograph collection
Description: Veteran studying for night class, Corpus Christi, Texas, 1949.Night adult classes at Central and Winn Seal High Schools are composed largely of Latin-American veterans who are completing grade and high school. Corpus Christi, Texas

Title: Waiting in the pre-natal clinic.
Identifier: e_rl_13943iidf_0019
Creator: Lee, Russell, 1903-1986
Topic: Latin Americans, Medical care
Dates: 1949
Resource: Russell Lee photograph collection
Description: Waiting in the pre-natal clinic. Corpus Christi, Texas. On this day there were 15 Latin-Americans, one Anglo and one Negro at the clinic. About 75% of all public health activity is devoted to the Latins; up to 90% of the Memorial Hospital's part-pay and charity patients are Latins. Corpus Christi, Texas.

Title: Waiting room
Identifier: e_rl_13943iidf_0012
Creator: Lee, Russell, 1903-1986
Topic: Latin Americans, Medical care
Dates: 1949
Resource: Russell Lee photograph collection
Description: Waiting room of the out-patient clinic at the City-County Memorial hospital. This is the only hospital in eleven counties which takes part-pay and charity patients. Corpus Christi, Texas.

Title: We fix our houses
Identifier: e_rl_13943iidf_0023
Creator: Lee, Russell, 1903-1986
Topic: Latin Americans, Housing
Dates: 1949
Resource: Russell Lee photograph collection
Description: We fix our houses; but, no sewer, no street; how can we keep clean? asked one of the women. Corpus Christi, Texas.

Title: Wiggins Homes
Identifier: e_rl_13918_0017
Creator: Lee, Russell, 1903-1986
Topic: Latin Americans, Housing
Dates: 1949
Resource: Russell Lee photograph collection
Description: [Wiggins Homes] See captions for e_rl_13918_0015 and e_rl_13918_0016.

Title: Wiggins Homes
Identifier: e_rl_13918_0019
Creator: Lee, Russell, 1903-1986
Topic: Latin Americans, Housing
Dates: 1949
Resource: Russell Lee photograph collection
Description: [Wiggins Homes] See captions for e_rl_13918_0015 and e_rl_13918_0016.

Title: A woman getting water
Identifier: e_rl_13918ef_0017
Creator: Lee, Russell, 1903-1986
Topic: Latin Americans
Dates: 1949
Resource: Russell Lee photograph collection
Description: A woman getting water from outdoor faucet. She lives in one of the twenty houses shown on e_rl_13918ad_0017, 13918ad_ 0018 and 13918ad_ 0019. Corpus Christi, Texas.

Title: Woman with children.
Identifier: e_rl_13918af_0014
Creator: Lee, Russell, 1903-1986
Topic: Latin Americans
Dates: 1949
Resource: Russell Lee photograph collection
Description: Woman with children. Please note--family relationship not ascertained. Corpus Christi, Texas.

Title: Young girl in doorway of home
Identifier: e_rl_13918ef_0020
Creator: Lee, Russell, 1903-1986
Topic: Latin Americans, Housing
Dates: 1949
Resource: Russell Lee photograph collection
Description: A thirteen year old girl who is in the third grade standing in the doorway of her home. See e_rl_139l8ad_0003, 13918ef_0017, 13918ef_0018 and 13918ef_0019.Interiors of this house 13918ef_0006, 13918ef_0007, 13918ef_0008.The little girl, whose mother spoke no English and whose father is a carpenter, seems to have taken over the management of family affairs with outsiders. She is exceptionally quick-minded. Corpus Christi, Texas