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Title: Survivor of Bataan Death March
Identifier: e_rl_14646_0065
Creator: Lee, Russell, 1903-1986
Topic: Latin Americans, Veterans, Bataan Death March (Philippines : 1942)
Dates: 1949
Resource: Russell Lee photograph collection
Description: A veteran who is a survivor of the Bataan Death March, who was a prisoner of war for three years and seven months. He is holding the award given those on the Bataan Death March. He sits on the front porch of his corral-type house in the slums. Six outside flush type toilets and one shower are provided for the more than one hundred people who live in this twenty-two unit corral. The adults often go together and rent a room in a small downtown hotel so that they can all take hot baths.

Title: Wife of veteran
Identifier: e_rl_14646_0183
Creator: Lee, Russell, 1903-1986
Topic: Latin Americans, Housing
Dates: 1949
Resource: Russell Lee photograph collection
Description: Wife of a veteran, a survivor of the Batann Death March and a prisoner of war for three years and seven months, in the small two-room slum corral house which is home. She is a high school graduate; her veteran husband is now attending school and also working. San Antonio, Texas.