todaysdocument:It’s National Lipstick Day! “Daughter of neighbor applied lipstick in
todaysdocument: It’s National Lipstick Day! “Daughter of neighbor applied lipstick in home of Harry Fain, coal miner. Inland Steel Company, Wheelwright #1 & 2 Mines, Wheelwright, Floyd County, Kentucky.”, 9/24/1946 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. There are currently 1,300 digitized photos from the project now available in the National Archives Catalog. (Today’s find comes courtesy of @usnatarchives staff member Kirstin Holm, a museum registrar in the Presidential Materials Division.) -- source link