Posted on 08/07/2010 7:18:23 AM PDT by re_tail20
They continued the tradition of the Jamestown settlers and all the generations which followed them--one of individual responsibility, pride in family and hard work, faith in a Divine Providence, and loyalty to principle, and America's promise of opportunity and freedom. They helped America feed the world and offer liberty to oppressed peoples.
Today's wannabe political dictators and apologists for America cannot hold a candle to the nobility of those faces in the photos.
more like today than I thought.
You all are right with your analysis on the religious aspect. I also think it has to do with Patriotism. The leftist knew back then they couldn't do the whole"America is a stupid,backward,ignorant, nations" thing, at least out in public because people still had pride in their country, they wanted to be Americans.
Sadly today many people think being an American is a bad thing.
Awesome! A much simpler time. Yeah, I know people were poor but sometimes I think I would prefer that to what we have now. There is a feeling of evil in the air now that wasn’t there then.
They do; the LOC does distribute JPEGs and TIFF files of these photos. See my posts, above. However, the originals are very high contrast, with over-saturated colors, blocked up shadows, and blown highlights. They need lots of work in PS before they are as good as the examples here. Whoever worked on these photos did a good job.
Its sickening isn't it? There are even increasing numbers of folks who call themselves "post-Americans." Even if they get past such ridiculousness (IE by living in a foreign country or in an immigrant-heavy community, and realizing how "American" they are) they nevertheless see patriotism as retrograde or a "farce." Sad to say the % of Americans who "love their country" seems to be declining with every generation.
These are absolutely amazing.
Strangely they steal the bleakness always present in the black and white/ sepia toned depression era shots we’ve grown accustomed to. These pictures show thriving Americans!
Totally cool. It seems that bare feet among the children, even at a school event, was pretty common.
“You’re welcome” to all those who’ve thanked me for posting this. I keep an eye out for early authentic color photos like this. I’ve seen many color photos like this from World War II, both in the U.S. and Germany. But I’d never seen color photos from pre-World War II, in the United States, and of simple normal rural life.
I guess color film was more expensive than black and white film to make and print back then, and probably still so today. So black and white film was mostly used, even though it cuts out all the color of the image it photographs.
You can forget that even in those Depression days, they had blue sky and sunshine.
boggles my mind
Thanks. I got these in a email a few days ago. I was born in 33 and lived through scenes like some of these in western FResno County...
Yep, and we can include the internationalist corporations who export our factories and jobs and consider themselves citizens of the world but nevertheless don't mind contributing mightily to the candidates who perpetuate them in the good old USA.
They must have did a lot of processing to get them to the presentable form we see on the Denver Post web site.
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Where’s the Latte stands, the tanning salons, and nail salons?
I just came across these images on another site - came here to see if they’d been posted, and they had: twice after your thread as well. Thanks for doing so, even if I’m late to the party.
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