Photographs by David Leeson -- [MS 52]
These are large photographs that were taken by David Leesonand published in the Dallas Morning News between 1985 and 1990
| Caption | Date | Size |
| Harvey offers Venus his sandwich at a Dallas homeless shelter. | 1986 | 27x35 |
| Tennis star John McEnroe argues with a line coach in Dallas. | 1986 | 21x35 |
| Three-year-old Megan peers from her "home" in a Ford Maverick in downtown Dallas. | 1986 | missing |
| Maxwell Maxey, a homeless mentally ill person, collapsed in frustration as he walked to a food line. He had suffered from debilitating side effects of psychotropic medication. | 1986 | 40x49 |
| Maxwell lies on a couch in a Dallas homeless shelter. | 1986 | 34x50 |
| Pam Lovejoy pauses for a break with her ten-month-old son Joshua. Most of their possessions hang from the stroller as they walk to a homeless shelter. | 1986 | 26x35 |
| Ten-year-old Venus waits for her Sunday morning breakfast in a food line for Dallas homeless. | 1986 | 25x35 |
| Angry Blacks flee teargas fired by government soldiers in a township near Capetown, South Africa. | 1985 | 39x50 |
| A wounded man is carried by his comrades after he was shot by police during riots in Panama City. He reportedly died the following week. | 1988 | 25x35 |
| In DeSoto, TX, a police officer reaches for his partner who slipped into swift currents while searching for a small boy. | 1987 | 27x35 |
| The finish line at Louisiana Downs. | 1989 | 17x35 |
| Children view the bodies of FMLN rebel soldiers killed in fighting in El Salvador. | 1989 | 23x34 |
| A woman in west Dallas expresses her joy as teenagers from a Church of Christ work camp repair her house. | 1988 | 24x35 |
| A Salvadoran soldier rides in a tank past government propaganda in San Salvador, El Salvador. The sign reads, "Innocent Victims of FMLN Mines...Is This Human Rights?" | 1989 | 37x34 |
| Ninety-year-old Gena Scarborough displays the gun she used to stop a burglar. | 1990 | 27x34 |
| An Indian woman walks past a government soldier in Huancayo, Peru. The soldier wears a mask to hide his identity from members of the Maoist rebel group, "Shining Path." | 1989 | 23x30 |
| Young girls and women carry cow dung (used for heating their homes) in a village in South Africa. | 1985 | 32x50 |
| A young boy in his home in Tenancingo, El Salvador. | 1989 | 23x35 |
| Eighty-nine-year-old Cambodian refugee in her east Dallas apartment. | 1989 | 23x35 |
| Grief and resolve at a funeral for three boys killed in riots in Soweto, a Black township near Johannesburg, South Africa. | 1985 | 36x50 |
| David Leeson. | 1989 | 13x18 |
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