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GUN BLASTS. Sailors on the battleship USS New Jersey muffle their ears. South China Sea. March 1969.

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“Daughter of Charles B. Lewis, miner, holding her kitten. She is sitting in kitchen of her home in company housing project. Union Pacific Coal Company, Winton Mine, Winton, Sweetwater County, Wyoming.”, 7/10/1946

Lee, Russell, 1903-1986, Photographer. Series: Photographs of the Medical Survey of the Bituminous Coal Industry, 1946 - 1947. Record Group 245: Records of the Solid Fuels Administration for War, 1937 - 1948

In 1946 the Department of Interior and the United Mine Workers agreed to a joint survey of medical, health and housing conditions in coal communities to be conducted by Navy personnel. Under the direction of Rear Admiral Joel T. Boone, survey teams went into mining areas to collect data and photographs on the conditions of these regions, later compiled into a published report. The bulk of the photographs were taken by Russell W. Lee, a professional photographer hired by the Department of Interior for this project.