"Rupert, Idaho—Children Go to Swimming Classes in the School Bus"
Photograph
By: Russell Lee
Date: July 1942
Source: Lee, Russell. "Rupert, Idaho—Children Go to Swimming Classes in the School Bus." July 1942. Library of Congress. Card number fsa2000050772/PP. Available online at http://lcweb2.loc.gov/pp/mdbquery.html (accessed April 3, 2003).
About the Photographer: Russell Lee worked as a photographer for the Farm Security Administration during the Great Depression of the 1930s and into the 1940s, publicizing the conditions of America's rural poor to the public through his images. He continued to work at various posts as a photographer until his death in 1986.
Introduction
In 1937, Frank W. Cyr, a professor of rural education at Teachers College, Columbia University, conducted the first survey to investigate how students were getting to school. He found that most students...
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