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Title: Couple walking down a street in a new housing addition, San Angelo, 1949
Identifier: e_rl_14233_0035
Creator: Lee, Russell, 1903-1986
Topic: Latin Americans, Housing
Dates: 1949
Resource: Russell Lee photograph collection
Description: Looking down a street in a new addition outside the city limits of San Angelo, Texas. Frank Farias, real estate agent who is handling this addition for A. Turner, owner, said that many of the people were moving out here from the crowded and low north side of town because it was better for the children , more space and clean. Some were also moving into San Angelo from the nearby small towns and rural areas.

Title: Father and mother with five of their eight children
Identifier: e_rl_14233_0061
Creator: Lee, Russell, 1903-1986
Topic: Latin Americans, Housing
Dates: 1949
Resource: Russell Lee photograph collection
Description: Father and mother with five of their eight children. They live in the house shown in e_rl_14233_0061. They have rented for the last five years for $8.50 monthly. They use butane for heating and cooking. They have no electricity, use an outdoor privy and carry water from a faucet about 100 feet away. He is a truck driver, hauling gravel. The owner of the truck is also Latin-American.

Title: A house in south San Angelo
Identifier: e_rl_14233_0054
Creator: Lee, Russell, 1903-1986
Topic: Latin Americans, Housing
Dates: 1949
Resource: Russell Lee photograph collection
Description: A house in south San Angelo, Texas, in which live two adults and seven children. Since purchasing this house for $1175 in April of 1949 they have installed electricity and running water. They use an outdoor open pit privy and cook with kerosene. Enough lumber is now stored in the yard to about double the size of the house. The family also owns another house in a low section of town where they were flooded during rainy weather. They plan to keep this house because it has a good garden, fruit trees and chicken yard. They purchased the lot on which it stands for $175 about five years ago and built their own house. The father works for the Western States Utility company in the water pumping station. One daughter is married and lives away from home; the oldest son (not shown in the pictures) also works. Possessions noted around the house include good bedroom furniture; good bedding, a sewing machine, electric washing machine, new bicycle and tricycle and a nine year old automobile. Three of the children are of school age but attendance seemed to be haphazard. San Angelo, Texas.

Title: Houses and street
Identifier: e_rl_14233_0001
Creator: Lee, Russell, 1903-1986
Topic: Latin Americans, Housing
Dates: 1949
Resource: Russell Lee photograph collection
Description: Houses and street which are typical of the Latin-American section in south San Angelo, Texas.

Title: Houses and streets on a rainy day
Identifier: e_rl_14233_0003
Creator: Lee, Russell, 1903-1986
Topic: Latin Americans, Housing
Dates: 1949
Resource: Russell Lee photograph collection
Description: Houses and streets on a rainy day in the south section of San Angelo, Texas. Electricity and running water are available in this section but many of the houses do not have connections. Most families use open privies. San Angelo, Texas.

Title: Looking toward a new addition
Identifier: e_rl_14233_0036
Creator: Lee, Russell, 1903-1986
Topic: Latin Americans, Housing
Dates: 1949
Resource: Russell Lee photograph collection
Description: Looking toward a new addition near Ben Ficklin road outside the city limits of San Angelo, Texas. The lots range in price from $200 to $360; the highest priced ones being on Ben Ficklin road. Electricity and running water are available in most of the addition and sewers are now part of the addition.