I dont like Angelfire....
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?
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 ;-)
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(1) There are no fat people.
(2) Issues like gay-rights and universal health care didn't exist when people were just trying to survive. Much of today's liberal agenda exists only because of the prosperity the people in these photos brought to America through their hard work, ingenuity and faith.
Thank you so much.
thank you for posting these photos. Margaret Post Wolcott was a true artist — the other pictures interesting because of the subject matter, but not great works on their own.
Wow, THAT was impressive. I’m not quite old enough to remember those kinds of scenes, but by the time I was old enough to participate in life, things hadn’t really changed an awful lot. We had steam trains, wooden buildings, one-room schools, barefoot kids everywhere. The industrial photos are especially interesting. We have come a long way, but it illustrated just what kind of economy America was capable of producing. I will be saving that link.