Awesome, and they just kept on getting better and better.
Wow !!!! thanks for the post. Really brings back memories, especially the pic’s with the dinner setting. I ate many a meal with such a setting. We were poor but, we were a very happy family and we that are still alive, (family) wish we could return to this era.
A different time, that’s for sure. Thanks.
Thanks for the post. Those are REALLY cool pictures!
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.
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.
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.
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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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