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Title: Mrs. Estella Cortez
Identifier: e_rl_13918af_0003
Other IDs: rwl13918af_0003
Description: Mrs. Estella Cortez and her daughter standing in the doorway of their three room house which rents for $4 weekly. The only utility available is gas; their bill for cooking and heating gas varies from $5 to $8 monthly. Corpus Christi, Texas.
Creator: Lee, Russell, 1903-1986
Date: 1949
Date Created: 1949
Resource: Russell Lee photograph collection
Subject Topic: Latin Americans
Housing
Subject Geographic: Texas--Corpus Christi
Physical Genre: Photographs
Negatives (photographs)
Extent: 4 x 5 inches
Box: 3Y183
Folder: left
Collection Strength: Texas History
Photography
Documentary Photography
Project: Study of the Spanish-Speaking People of Texas
Project Theme: Corpus Christi, Texas
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