Posted on 08/09/2010 5:41:39 AM PDT by navysealdad
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.
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I dont like Angelfire....
why?
Fantastic pictures. Thanks for sharing.
Considering the fact that sending photographers out to take pictures was kind of a make work program, it was actually kind of a worthy waste of money in the long run. It was a great means of documenting history.
Just wow.
Great Pictures....
the girl in #16 looks like Napoleon Dynamite in drag.
#52 is my favorite....beer and trains!!
Those are great. Thanks.
Wonderful images of some lost bits and pieces of America. Funny: you forget how much advertising used to be devoted to tobacco and liquor. Also, look at the faces of the people in many of these images; there is a grit and determination in their eyes that appears sadly lacking from many of our contemporaries.
Really cool. Something about them being in color that makes them “hit home”.
Where are all the fat people?
probably wasnt their fault, but l got a virus there once...
Great pictures
Thanks for posting, this is really cool.
I can’t believe how...HARD everyone looks in those pics. Men, women, and children. Not an easy life back then at all...
Whatever, dude. I have it on good authority that no colors existed before 1937, when color was invented by Russians as a wartime research project.
one of differences, this time we don’t see the effects of the depression because the gubmint is paying for everything now (with credit cards ;-)
I had no clue the Russians invented color !
I live just outside of Derby, CT - where a Farm photo was taken. That town is utter sh!t these days. It’s rich history has been trampled on by years of ... I dunno what to call it. Malaise. Crime. What-have-you.
But Stonington CT is still beautiful. Always has been.
LOL I remember an old Calvin and Hobbs strip where Calvin’s dad was explaining why old photos were black and white but paintings were in color.
He explained that there was no color before the 1940s but artists painted in color because they were insane.
I did check out the pics and they really are a treasure...documents a time in our history...
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