Sucka, you think this country is leanin' left now you ain't seen nothin'!
Posted on 05/18/2011 8:08:53 AM PDT by AnAmericanAbroad
It was an era that defined a generation. The Great Depression marked the bitter and abrupt end to the post-World War 1 bubble that left America giddy with promise in the 1920s. Near the end of the 1930s the country was beginning to recover from the crash, but many in small towns and rural areas were still poverty-stricken. These rare photographs are some of the few documenting those iconic years in colour. The photographs and captions are the property of the Library of Congress and were included in a 2006 exhibit Bound for Glory: America in Color. The images, by photographers of the Farm Security Administration/Office of War Information, shed a bleak new light on a world now gone with the wind.
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Thank you for posting this. One thing about the Dailymail UK, they always have a great photo layout with their stories. I enjoy that.
I’ll be sending these to my step-dad who lived through that era.
Great stuff!
Sucka, you think this country is leanin' left now you ain't seen nothin'!
Later
There is my childhood in living color. The Whinery kids look just like we did as children. Hard times, but we didn’t know it. We were family and had lots of space to be free.
One small quibble..by 1942 ..we were out of the Depression..WW II had solved that problem..there was work for everyone..
Another thought...it was 29 years, from 1940, until 1969, went we sent men to the moon, and now, 40 years after that seminal event, we're out of space.....we seem to be going backwards..
Awesome. Thanks for posting. Neat to see this era in color, as opposed to B&W.
Most are WW II ear which is usually not considered depression era.
But either way they are wonderful photos. !
Most are WW II ear which is usually not considered depression era.
But either way they are wonderful photos. !
My mom tells me about living during that time as a child. She was born in 1933. Although she was too young to remember the worst of the depression, it really didn’t get better until after the war. She talks about how the neighbors stuck together, the rationing that took place during the war, killing chickens or rabbits for that day’s meal. Staying out playing until after dark, running around bare-foot with no worry.
Through it all though, they all stuck together and like you said, the kids didn’t know it was rough; it was just part of the day.
Well dust them off because we’re solidly into The Second GREAT DEPRESSION!
What’s most interesting to me are the photos of working women.
We’re told that the women’s liberation movement didn’t begin until the 60s-70s. Before then all women were stuck in the home barefoot and pregnant.
Looks to me like women were more “equal” to men in the 30s than the are today. Or at least they lived more equally. Today’s women are a bunch on crybabies compared to the women of old. check out the lunch room pic. Those ladies look like they are 50+. Todays 30 year old woman whine about balancing jobs as marketing assistants with picking up their kids at daycare.
Great pics! Thanks for posting!
D’OH!
Yep. My personal favorite.
This is impossible. Everyone knows the world was always in black and white! And everyone walked faster back then too; just watch those old black and white silent films.
Then something strange happened with some dimensional shift and everything became color around 50-60 years ago!
Hey you want to see color photos even more amazing, look at
http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/empire/
These are from Russia from 100 years ago!
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