Color Photos of the Great Depression

Submitted by Grace Lillevig [1] on Fri, 08/06/2010 - 3:51pm

The Denver Post Photo Blog [2] has an amazing set of photos - Captured: America in Color from 1939-1943 [3] - from the Prints and Photographs Division [4] of the Library of Congress. They are reproductions from color slides taken by the US Farm Security Administration [5] from 1939-1943. The photos are from all over the country, including some from Texas, Louisiana, Oklahoma, and New Mexico. I think my favorite photo from the set is a real life "Rosie the Riviter [6]," I love how her face is mirrored in the side of the "Vengeance" dive bomber.

Rosie the Riviter

via Boing Boing [7]

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[1] http://www.hcpl.net/users/grace-lillevig
[2] http://blogs.denverpost.com/captured/
[3] http://blogs.denverpost.com/captured/2010/07/26/captured-america-in-color-from-1939-1943/
[4] http://www.loc.gov/pictures/
[5] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Farm_Security_Administration
[6] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosie_the_Riveter
[7] http://www.boingboing.net/2010/08/04/the-depression-in-co.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+boingboing%2FiBag+%28Boing+Boing%29
[8] http://www.hcpl.net/category/tags/farm-security-administration
[9] http://www.hcpl.net/category/tags/library-congress
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