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OxQQme

(2,550 posts)
Sun Jul 15, 2012, 11:06 AM Jul 2012

America in Color from 1939-1943

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.


http://extras.denverpost.com/archive/captured.asp

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America in Color from 1939-1943 (Original Post) OxQQme Jul 2012 OP
Wonderful pictures... each one tells a story. femmocrat Jul 2012 #1
Thanks! Dyedinthewoolliberal Jul 2012 #2
Shoeless...yes OxQQme Jul 2012 #3
Amazing shots - beautiful color work GoneOffShore Jul 2012 #4
K&R! DeSwiss Jul 2012 #5
The story behind the Farm Security Administration is very interesting Major Nikon Jul 2012 #6
Wonderful photos, thanks for posting. In pic 9 I'm pretty sure they are NOT "chopping cotton"... Scuba Jul 2012 #7
Great pictures! thanks for the link. nt raccoon Jul 2012 #8
These are wonderful! Dalai_1 Jul 2012 #9
For later . . . HughBeaumont Jul 2012 #10

OxQQme

(2,550 posts)
3. Shoeless...yes
Sun Jul 15, 2012, 09:34 PM
Jul 2012

I went shoeless often as a youngster with fast growing feet.
I was born in '40, so these resonated in me.
My parents migrated (separately) from dust bowl states, met up picking lemons in the San Joaquin valley , married in 1939.
Mom's 94 now and still kickin' and has some stories to tell.

GoneOffShore

(17,309 posts)
4. Amazing shots - beautiful color work
Sun Jul 15, 2012, 10:30 PM
Jul 2012

Just rediscovered A. Aubrey Bodine - who was a staff photographer for the Baltimore Sun from 1920 - 1970 - Pictorialist and in my opinion the America Henri Cartier-Bresson

Some shots here http://www.baltimoresun.com/entertainment/bal-bodine-pg,0,4112830.photogallery

Major Nikon

(36,814 posts)
6. The story behind the Farm Security Administration is very interesting
Sun Jul 15, 2012, 11:49 PM
Jul 2012

It was created out of the New Deal effort and was eventually absorbed by the military during WWII. Some of the most famous and influential photographers in America came out of the program. Dorothea Lange, Gordon Parks, and Ben Shahn all came out of that program.

 

Scuba

(53,475 posts)
7. Wonderful photos, thanks for posting. In pic 9 I'm pretty sure they are NOT "chopping cotton"...
Mon Jul 16, 2012, 07:31 AM
Jul 2012

... as there is no cotton present. Looks like they're using hoes to prepare the field for planting.

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