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July 30, 2010
America in Color, 1939-1943.
In the 1930s and 40s the Farm Security Administration and Office of War Information sent photographers to document the effects of The Great Depression, the Dust Bowl, and the effects of farm mechanization. The Library of Congress has a public archive of over 160,000 of these images.
A tiny fraction of them are in color, and they're beautiful.
More at denverpost.com's photo blog.
Mike Evans, a welder, at the rip tracks at Proviso yard of the Chicago and Northwest Railway Company. Chicago, Illinois, April 1943. Reproduction from color slide. Photo by Jack Delano. Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress
Woman is working on a "Vengeance" dive bomber Tennessee, February 1943. Reproduction from color slide. Photo by Alfred T. Palmer. Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress
Rural school children. San Augustine County, Texas, April 1943. Reproduction from color slide. Photo by John Vachon. Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress
