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Title: Ditch
Identifier: e_rl_13918_0002
Creator: Lee, Russell, 1903-1986
Topic: Latin Americans
Dates: 1949
Resource: Russell Lee photograph collection
Description: A ditch directly across the street from Navarro Place public low-rent housing project, Corpus Christi, Texas.

Title: A doctor's secretary and office assistant.
Identifier: e_rl_13943iidf_0010
Creator: Lee, Russell, 1903-1986
Topic: Latin Americans, Medical care
Dates: 1949
Resource: Russell Lee photograph collection
Description: A Latin-American doctor's secretary and office assistant. Typing and secretarial training is available in the unsegregated schools but job opportnities for Latin-Americans so trained are fairly limited. Corpus Christi, Texas.

Title: Doorway of house.
Identifier: e_rl_13918ef_0024
Creator: Lee, Russell, 1903-1986
Topic: Latin Americans, Housing
Dates: 1949
Resource: Russell Lee photograph collection
Description: Doorway of house.See rwl13918ef_0018. Family relationship of the children and woman not ascertained.

Title: Drainage ditch
Identifier: e_rl_13918bc_0016
Creator: Lee, Russell, 1903-1986
Topic: Latin Americans
Dates: 1949
Resource: Russell Lee photograph collection
Description: Drainage ditch. Corpus Christi, Texas.

Title: Employment agency sign.
Identifier: e_rl_13918ef_0014
Creator: Lee, Russell, 1903-1986
Topic: Latin Americans
Dates: 1949
Resource: Russell Lee photograph collection
Description: Employment agency sign. Corpus Christi, Texas.

Title: Employment agency which specializes in recruiting agricultural workers
Identifier: e_rl_13943iief_0022
Creator: Lee, Russell, 1903-1986
Topic: Latin Americans, Labor
Dates: 1949
Resource: Russell Lee photograph collection
Description: Employment agency which specializes in recruiting agricultural workers for out-of-state jobs. This is also an informal local hiring corner. Corpus Christi, Texas.

Title: The entrance to a Presbyterian Church.
Identifier: e_rl_13918_0011
Creator: Lee, Russell, 1903-1986
Topic: Latin Americans, Presbyterian Church, Church buildings
Dates: 1949
Resource: Russell Lee photograph collection
Description: The entrance to a Presbyterian Church which has an exclusively Latin American membership. Corpus Christi, Texas.

Title: Estella Cortez gives her brother-in-law a hypodermic.
Identifier: e_rl_13918af_0009
Creator: Lee, Russell, 1903-1986
Topic: Latin Americans, Tuberculosis, Medical care
Dates: 1949
Resource: Russell Lee photograph collection
Description: Estella Cortez gives her brother-in-law a hypodermic.The family doctor, a Latin-American, taught her home nursing techniques so that she might care for this man and his wife, both of whom had tuberculosis. The wife died the week before; this man has been in bed at home for four months. The city health officer, Dr. Gordon Fisher, estimates that there are 8000 cases of tuberculosis in the county; there are only twenty beds in the county tuberculosis sanitarium which is designed to supplement the state sanitarium at which there is a long waiting list. Corpus Christi, Texas.

Title: Exterior of house
Identifier: e_rl_13918ef_0023
Creator: Lee, Russell, 1903-1986
Topic: Latin Americans, Housing
Dates: 1949
Resource: Russell Lee photograph collection
Description: Exterior of house whose interiors are shown in rwl13918ef_ 0011 and 13918ef_0012.

Title: Father with his child
Identifier: e_rl_13918r3_0002
Creator: Lee, Russell, 1903-1986
Topic: Latin Americans, Presbyterian Church, Sunday schools
Dates: 1949
Resource: Russell Lee photograph collection
Description: Father with his child at the Presbyterian sunday school. Corpus Christi. Texas.

Title: Front yards at Wiggins Homes
Identifier: e_rl_13918_0015
Creator: Lee, Russell, 1903-1986
Topic: Latin Americans, Housing
Dates: 1949
Resource: Russell Lee photograph collection
Description: Front yards at Wiggins Homes, a 158 unit public low rent housing project. Wiggins Homes were originally restricted to Anglos; in 1948 the Corpus Christi Public Housing Authority opened this project to Latin-Americans. Some Anglos moved to other housing projects; some Anglos with above maximum incomes moved to private housing. Wiggins Homes is now almost exclusively occupied by Latins but at no time has there been conflict, according to the Corpus Christi Public Housing Authority. Corpus Christi, Texas.

Title: Garbage collector.
Identifier: e_rl_13918af_0015
Creator: Lee, Russell, 1903-1986
Topic: Latin Americans
Dates: 1949
Resource: Russell Lee photograph collection
Description: Garbage collector. Corpus Christi, Texas..

Title: Girls at Sunday school.
Identifier: e_rl_13918r3_0031
Creator: Lee, Russell, 1903-1986
Topic: Latin Americans, Sunday schools
Dates: 1949
Resource: Russell Lee photograph collection
Description: Girls at Sunday school. Corpus Christi, Texas.

Title: A hospital ward
Identifier: e_rl_13943iir2_0035
Creator: Lee, Russell, 1903-1986
Topic: Latin Americans, Medical care
Dates: 1949
Resource: Russell Lee photograph collection
Description: A ward in the City-County Memorial hospital. The largest wards in the hospital have six beds and segregation of Latins and Anglos is practiced. However, both Latins and Anglos were seen in the same room in the children's wards. Corpus Christi, Texas.

Title: A house
Identifier: e_rl_13918bc_0020
Creator: Lee, Russell, 1903-1986
Topic: Latin Americans, Housing
Dates: 1949
Resource: Russell Lee photograph collection
Description: A house in which three families live. Corpus Christi, Texas.

Title: House
Identifier: e_rl_13918af_0019
Creator: Lee, Russell, 1903-1986
Topic: Latin Americans, Housing
Dates: 1949
Resource: Russell Lee photograph collection
Description: House typical to the Latin-American section of town. Corpus Christi, Texas.

Title: A house in San Diego addition
Identifier: e_rl_13918_0003
Creator: Lee, Russell, 1903-1986
Topic: Latin Americans, Housing
Dates: 1949
Resource: Russell Lee photograph collection
Description: A house in San Diego addition. 120 such houses were constructed in 1944-45 by G. H. Swartner, private builder, with priority orders, for Latin-American war workers. The houses average 650 square feet each and sold for $3450 and $3550; each carried a $2900 FHA loan under Title Six and the monthly payments, including interest and insurance, averaged $25. Corpus Christi, Texas.

Title: A house in the Molinas addition
Identifier: e_rl_13943iief_0006
Creator: Lee, Russell, 1903-1986
Topic: Latin Americans, Housing
Dates: 1949
Resource: Russell Lee photograph collection
Description: A house in the Molinas addition, adjacent to the airport and outside the city limits. Electricity and running water are available but these houses often have neither electrical nor sewer connections. Corpus Christi, Texas.

Title: A house where two adults and eight children live.
Identifier: e_rl_13918ad_0016
Creator: Lee, Russell, 1903-1986
Topic: Latin Americans, Housing
Dates: 1949
Resource: Russell Lee photograph collection
Description: Two adults and eight children live in this house which is approximately 22 by 14 feet in size; it has running water, gas and electricity. The mother did not think that the $30 monthly shelter rent was excessive and expressed surprise that anyone would think so. Corpus Christi, Texas.

Title: Houses.
Identifier: e_rl_13943iiac_0003
Creator: Lee, Russell, 1903-1986
Topic: Latin Americans, Housing
Dates: 1949
Resource: Russell Lee photograph collection
Description: Houses. Corpus Christi, Texas.

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