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Photos: More Rare Color photos from Depression Era and the 40s - Comment
May 20, 2011 05:06 PM EDT
Rare color photos from the Great Depression and World War II that may give you a glimpse of the taste of what it was like in the 30s and 40s- decades that were normally known and seen only in black-and-white.
Photographers working for the United States Farm Security Administration (FSA) and later the Office of War Information (OWI) created the images between 1939 and 1944.
The pictures depict life in the United States, including New Mexico, Chicago, Georgia, with a focus on farmlands and rural labor, as well as World War II factories, railroads, and women working.
The original images are color transparencies ranging in size from 35 mm. to 4x5 inches. They complement the better-known black-and-white FSA/OWI photographs, made during the same period.
House, Houston, Texas, 1943 May,
Source: US Library of Congress / Vachon, John, Date:05/20/2011
Saying grace before the barbecue dinner at the Pie Town, New Mexico Fair, 1940 Oct.,
Source: US Library of Congress Date:05/20/2011
At the Vermont state fair, Rutland, 1941 Sept.,
Source: US Library of Congress / Delano, Jack,, Date:05/20/2011
At the Vermont state fair, Rutland, 1941 Sept.,
Source: US Library of Congress / Delano, Jack,, Date:05/20/2011
At the Vermont state fair, Rutland, 1941 Sept.,
Source: US Library of Congress / Delano, Jack,, Date:05/20/2011
1942 Dec.,
Source: US Library of Congress Date:05/20/2011
Part of the South Water Street freight depot of the Illinois Central Railroad in Chicago, Illinois, May 1943
Source: US Library of Congress Date:05/20/2011
Couples dance in Oklahoma, McIntosh County, 1939
Source: US Library of Congress / Lee, Russell, Date:05/20/2011
Farm auction. Derby, Connecticut (September 1940)
Source: US Library of Congress Date:05/20/2011
1940
Source: US Library of Congress Date:05/20/2011
1940
Source: US Library of Congress Date:05/20/2011
Women workers having lunch in their rest room, Chicago and Northwest Railway Company. Clinton, Iowa (April 1943)
Source: US Library of Congress Date:05/20/2011
Distributing surplus items, St. Johns, Arizona (October 1940)
Source: US Library of Congress Date:05/20/2011Most Popular Picture This
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