Check out these pictures! I love looking at old photos and seeing the history and culture of the time. But what is also impressive about these is the rich quality; a lot of them were reproduced from slides.

Captured: America in Color from 1939-1943 – Plog Photo Blog

Love the photo's thanks for posting them. I see history is soon about to repeat itself, only we have no manufacturing jobs now.

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Fidelis Ad Mortem

Amazing photos, thanks for posting!

Very well done, thanks for the post.

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THOSE PHOTOGRAPHS REMIND ME OF THIS SONG Jamey Johnson - In Color - YouTube

Photo #33....notice the number of stars on the flag...........AK and HI were not states yet.

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...amazing slides. A lot of them look like Kodachrome in 4x5 format. The color saturation is really high, as Kodachrome always did.

Can you imagine the size of the enlargement? 16x20, at the least.

Boy howdy, those bring back a lot of memories. The cars, the clothes, and the faces all remind me of growin' up.

Thanks for sharing.

I was just a kid in the early 1940s, but I do remember scenes like these. During WWII, the country was trying to recover from the Great Depression, and a lot of folks had to save up to be poor...

I sure hope history is not trying to repeat itself - those days were really tough on the country.

John

Waiting not-so-patiently for November, 2012.

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Great photos! Thanks for the link!

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Misty

When I was young, we were so poor that at Christmas if I hadn't been a little boy, I wouldn't have had anything to play with!

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Dick Burg

I was born in 1940, and the images in those photos were the same things I remember from rural Oklahoma during the War years.

I've seen this same set of photos before, but I'm always intrigued every time I look at them.

I started life in Dover and Kingfisher, Oklahoma, very near Vance AAFB in Enid. I remember the training aircraft in the sky all the time. I remember the war materials and troops passing on the trains daily. The "rural poverty" as seen in those pictures was quite familiar.

My very first memories were from around one year old....and those were the images I saw.

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G.P. Charlie

Extremely difficult times.

My mom grew up in that period, never wasted a thing at home.
She smoked 3 cigarettes a day her entire life, Chesterfields. I guess I know why, they really had it bad. We all should count our blessings.

Great photos, thank you for posting

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Born in '41, I recall many similar scenes as I grew up. Thanks for those!

I HOPE we CHANGE!

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I was born in 1941 and I remember. I didn't see any pictures from NC but it was the same here. Some of the good old days were not so good. Larry

Gorgeous pics!! That early Kodachrome was exceptionally slow (ASA 10 or so) and gave a very fine detailed picture.(Lots of pixels.... so it enlarges well)

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SWCA #680 SWHF #446

Maybe the times weren't good, but it built you to become a great American. I love those people in these photos. God Bless them all.

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In all those pictures, I did not see anyone with pink and green hair,
flashing a peace sign at the photographer. Think maybe that wasn't so healthy back then? Or maybe, everybody knew what the problem was?
TACC1

Now I want to buy a hat.

There was a link to some great Pacific theater WWII pictures there, too:

http://blogs.denverpost.com/captured...ource=ARK_plog

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Thanks for posting, Back when times were tough and men and women actually worked for a living, not like now when they complain about everything.

Great pictures. I especially like the ones of families, and the strength of character you can see in the parents' faces. Those were not the sort of people to trifle with.

As Sig220.45 says, check out the Pacific War pictures, too. Very, very good.

Oranges were a penny. I wonder if that figures out to have been a good deal when one takes inflation into account.

Great photos, thanx for sharing!

Yes, #21 even shows the UUVV edge notch used on Kodachrome in that time period. The edge notch allowed technicians to identify the film type and emulsion side in total darkness.

Kodachrome was introduced in professional sizes starting in September 1938. 2.25 x 3.25", 3.25 x 4.25", 4x5", 5x7", 8x10" & 11x14". Sheet film sizes were discontinued in April 1951.

A penney in 1939 is like 15.666 cents today. Checked it here.
DollarTimes.com | Inflation Calculator

Then why is a "penny postcard" now 29 cents???

John

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Just found these. Thanks for posting. Some of the best photos I've ever seen.