Spend some time with this interesting collection of color photographs from the 1940s. It’s a collection presented by the Denver Post:
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 and captions are the property of the Library of Congress and were included in a 2006 exhibit Bound for Glory: America in Color.
Very powerful images- when color photos were the new media.
This week I was showing my Mother’s HIgh School photo to one of the nursing home aides. That would have been from the same time period but it was a “hand colored” black and white photograph.
I just spent the last 45 minutes writing comments on 10 of the photos–many to which I identify. Instead of hitting post comment, for some reason, I hit the delete button and lost the whole d****d thing.