Hay stack and automobile of peach pickers, Delta County, Colorado

Russell Lee was known for his ability to enter a community and document every aspect of it, becoming friendly with the locals and capturing honest moments of their daily lives. Unlike his fellow FSA photographers, Lee loved shooting in series rather than single images, feeling that was the only way to truly capture the story of a society.

His time in Delta County, Colorado was spent photographing onion and peach farmers at work, at home, and most notably, at their county fair. This particular scene of peach pickers' automobiles he shot in both color and black-and-white film, showing his thoroughness in documenting the lives of the people around him.