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Title: San Diego housing addition, Corpus Christi, 1949
Identifier: e_rl_13918_0005
Creator: Lee, Russell, 1903-1986
Topic: Latin Americans, Housing
Dates: 1949
Resource: Russell Lee photograph collection
Description: G. H. Swartner, builder of the original 120 units in San Diego addition, did some landscaping and furnished seed to the buyers. He also sponsored a landscaping, garden and lawn contest. In 1949 he guessed that the majority of the San Diego home owners were employed at the Naval Air Station; he further said that the turnover in ownership had been below the average for this price-range house. He believes that there is a profitable market for such houses among the Latin-Americans if the monthly payments are not more than $25 or $30. Swartner also said that a main difficulty in this type of building is that the Latin-American has not a credit rating and has little conception of long-term credit culture. The outside venetian blinds, seen on many houses in this addition, were added in the summer of 1948 by the home-owners; the entire addition showed excellent home maintenance and improvement. Corpus Christi, Texas.

Title: Scene at Navarro Place
Identifier: e_rl_13918_0001
Creator: Lee, Russell, 1903-1986
Topic: Latin Americans, Housing
Dates: 1949
Resource: Russell Lee photograph collection
Description: Scene at Navarro Place, a 210-unit public low-rent housing project occupied exclusively by Latin-Americans.The maximum income limit for admission for families with two or less minors is $2280; for families with three or more minors this maximum income limit is $3000. Corpus Christi, Texas.

Title: Second floor and open court of tenement houses
Identifier: e_rl_14920_0045
Creator: Lee, Russell, 1903-1986
Topic: Latin Americans, Housing
Dates: 1949
Resource: Russell Lee photograph collection
Description: Second floor and open court of tenement houses, southern section of El Paso.

Title: Side of three story tenement house.
Identifier: e_rl_14920_0022
Creator: Lee, Russell, 1903-1986
Topic: Latin Americans, Housing
Dates: 1949
Resource: Russell Lee photograph collection
Description: Side of three story tenement house occupied by Spanish-speaking people, southern section of El Paso.

Title: A sign of lots for sale.
Identifier: e_rl_14646_0208
Creator: Lee, Russell, 1903-1986
Topic: Latin Americans, Housing
Dates: 1949
Resource: Russell Lee photograph collection
Description: A sign of lots for sale--in the city limits--desirable particularly because they have water, gravel streets and are near a bus.

Title: Slum corrals built in 1913
Identifier: e_rl_14646_0189
Creator: Lee, Russell, 1903-1986
Topic: Latin Americans, Housing
Dates: 1949
Resource: Russell Lee photograph collection
Description: Slum-corrals built in 1913 and occupied continuously since then. The twenty two units now rent for $5.50 monthly each. Six outdoor flush type toilets and one shower are provided for the more than one hundred people. There was no evidence of any regular repair or maintenance work by the landlord; however the interiors were neat and clean and many tenants had painted the inside walls, repaired screens, etc. San Antonio, Texas.

Title: Slum corrals built in 1913
Identifier: e_rl_14646_0190
Creator: Lee, Russell, 1903-1986
Topic: Latin Americans, Housing
Dates: 1949
Resource: Russell Lee photograph collection
Description: Slum-corrals built in 1913 and occupied continuously since then. The twenty two units now rent for $5.50 monthly each. Six outdoor flush type toilets and one shower are provided for the more than one hundred people. there was no evidence of my regular repair or maintenance work by the landlord; however the interiors were neat and clean and many tenants had painted the inside walls, repaired screens, etc.

Title: Spanish-speaking workmen mixing concrete for the foundation of a house, El Paso, Texas, 1949
Identifier: e_rl_14920_0094
Creator: Lee, Russell, 1903-1986
Topic: Latin Americans, Housing
Dates: 1949
Resource: Russell Lee photograph collection
Description: Spanish-speaking workmen mixing concrete for foundation of house, San Juan addition, El Paso

Title: Stairway and toilet of tenement house.
Identifier: e_rl_14920_0011
Creator: Lee, Russell, 1903-1986
Topic: Latin Americans, Housing
Dates: 1949
Resource: Russell Lee photograph collection
Description: Stairway and toilet of tenement house, southern section of El Paso.