Posted on 07/28/2010 4:29:50 PM PDT by Teflonic
These images, by photographers of the Farm Security Administration/Office of War Information, are some of the only color photographs taken of the effects of the Depression on America’s rural and small town populations. The photographs are the property of the Library of Congress and were included in a 2006 exhibit Bound for Glory: America in Color.
Awesome! While B&W photos have their own charm, color really brings things to life. A view of a mostly vanished world.
Wow. Very good. It is hard not to think in terms of black-and-white when thinking of this era. If there is a ping list for old photographs, I would like to be included.
Thank you for posting.
I thought by ‘43 most aircraft were built in natural Aluminum. Whats with the puke yellow undercoating on these B-25’s?
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Wow!
Magnificent. People of all races had it hard then, but they had faith in God and each other to an extent we have lost today.
Picture 39 almost looks like a painting.
My mother was a child at this time, out in the dustbowl. I can imagine her life looking at these.
Her family all worked for boeing during the war. She saw the first B 52 ever built. Looking at the color pictures of the planes puts me in touch with her.
That woman playing the guitar in photo 14 isn’t the spitting image of Frances McDormand from Fargo.
Those pics were sooooo cool!
the same woman and girls in that iconic Depression-era photograph?-
Dunno, the yellow seemed odd to me as well.
When I was a kid in New Orleans Jax had a brewery along the River where the River Walk is now located.
I don’t think so, nose and ears aren’t a good match. Funny how that bob style haircut is still popular for kids today.
Primer. The OD paint most of ‘em got (see the pics of completed warbirds in this same series, esp the Mustang) didn’t adhere well to the aluminum.
Thanks. I couldn’t go to bed unless someone told me that.
I’m visiting New Orleans now (leaving tomorrow) and the old Jackson Brewery is a modern shopping mall not far from where the Gray Line tours and Natchez Steamboats leave.
http://www.jacksonbrewery.com/about.html
The color photo is ID’s by the Denver Post as “Jack Whinery, homesteader, and his family. Pie Town, New Mexico, October 1940”.
Your BW lady is Florence Owens Thompson of Nipomo, CA, photographed by Dorothea Lange in 1936, and given the title “Migrant Mother”.
More information and a drawing based on another photo in the series at http://www.flickr.com/photos/texaslady_50/3571320365/
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Thanks Teflonic. It's strange to consider how recently this range of years seems -- 71 to 67 years ago. :')Captured: America in Color from 1939-1943... by photographers of the Farm Security Administration/Office of War Information, are some of the only color photographs taken of the effects of the Depression on America's rural and small town populations.Nice that the Depression was still going on from six to ten years after FDR promised to fix the whole problem with Relief, Recovery, and Reform. Then ran for reelection three times, and had his heart not given out thumping his long-term adulterous lover, he'd have stayed in office as de facto dictator through another bunch of VPs, and repacked the Supreme Court. |
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