Captured: America in Color from 1939-1943

[Wayne02]

Thought some of you guys would enjoy the photo's on this site.

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. The photographs are the property of the Library of Congress and were included in a 2006 exhibit Bound for Glory: America in Color.

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

 

[sgt.207]

Wow - those photo's are amazing

 

[rondo]

Thought some of you guys would enjoy the photo's on this site.

Did just that, thank you!

 

[Thicker]

Great pictures of Our American Past..... Thanks for the post.....

 

[sgt.207]

Follow the links at the bottom of that site and there are a lot of photo's of our guys in Afghanistan. God Bless them all.

 

[Bullseye 2620]

Really good stuff. Thanks for posting these!


Bullseye

 

[JimJeep]

Very nice...makes you thankful for what you have.

 

[Stonecove]

Great post. Thanks, Stonecove

 

[sgt.207]

Not to hijack your post Wayne but i found a link to these WWII photo's on the website.

On War: Joe Rosenthal & Iwo Jima – Plog Photo Blog

 

[Old 44 Guy]

This really brought back the memories. Tough times & tough people. My mother worked in Kaiser shipyards in Richmond,Ca. during WW2. She was an ambulance driver then a guard at the gate. Dad worked for the telephone company & never went in the service as he was too old. I remember the kids all having clothes sewn out of flour sacks like is in these pictures. Lots of men in the service & women doing their jobs. We bought saving stamps [10 cents]at school, when we had $18.75 we got a $25 dollar bond good in 10 years.

 

[DCWilson]

Fascinating photos. How can something look so familiar and so remote at the same time? I remember a lot of towns that looked like those from the early to mid-1950s when my parents took me and my brothers on driving vacations. I remember Pie Town, which we passed through on one national parks trip.

The group photos are heartening: the parents look like survivors and the kids look optimistic. A good combo.

I wonder where those children are now and what they think.

 

[TOM BECKWITH]

Thank you - will share them!!!!

 

[medxam]

Thank you so very much for this site! 1940 was my birth year and there is not much around, especially in color, to tell me what it was like in those days.

 

[ladder13]

I am humbled to be a citizen of the greatest country this world has ever known.
Thanks for the pictures.

 

[leswad]

#58 is awesome! Thanks for the Post!

 

[ancient-one]

The America in Color brings back lots of memories. I was sixteen when i graduated from HS in 1941. The WW11 pictures were also very good.
Going to look at some of the others. Thanks for the post.

 

[jag312]

I love old photographs. They are a window to our past. I wonder where the children are today.

 

[Duke426]

Thanks for the links!!

One thing I noticed is that there were no fat people in any of the pictures. Couldn't take a photo nowadays without it being full of fatties. I think Americans were a lot healthier and heartier back then.

 

[ohiobuckeye]

Many of those pictures bear a striking resemblance to some of my own childhood memories. Many of them good...some not so good.

 

[cowboy117]

Great pics!I put the page into My Favorites.