SACO INVEST: Rare Color Photos From the Depression Era

sábado, 22 de outubro de 2011

These vivid color photos from the Great Depression and World War II capture an era generally seen only in black-and-white. Photographers working for the United States Farm Security Administration (FSA) and later the Office of War Information (OWI) created the images between 1939 and 1944.

The FSA/OWI pictures depict life in the United States, including Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands, with a focus on rural areas and farm labor, as well as aspects of World War II mobilization, including factories, railroads, aviation training, and women working.

The original images are color transparencies ranging in size from 35 mm. to 4×5 inches. They complement the better-known black-and-white FSA/OWI photographs, made during the same period. (Source: US Library of Congress)

1176 Rare Color Photos From the Depression Era

Woman aircraft worker, Vega Aircraft Corporation, Burbank, Calif. Shown checking electrical assemblies.

2125 Rare Color Photos From the Depression Era

Day laborers picking cotton, near Clarksdale, Miss. 1939 Nov.

387 Rare Color Photos From the Depression Era

Instructor explaining the operation of a parachute to student pilots, Meacham field, Fort Worth, Tex.

467 Rare Color Photos From the Depression Era

Gathering corn in the field, Pie Town, New Mexico

556 Rare Color Photos From the Depression Era

Jim Norris, homesteader, Pie Town, New Mexico 1940 Oct.

648 Rare Color Photos From the Depression Era

Lincoln, Nebraska.

742 Rare Color Photos From the Depression Era

Smokestack, 1942.

835 Rare Color Photos From the Depression Era

Shasta dam under construction, California.

930 Rare Color Photos From the Depression Era

General view of a classification yard at C & NW RR’s Proviso yard, Chicago, Ill.

1027 Rare Color Photos From the Depression Era

Mike Evans, a welder, at the rip tracks at Proviso yard of the C & NW RR, Chicago, Ill.

1177 Rare Color Photos From the Depression Era

General view of a classification yard at C & NW RR’s Proviso yard, Chicago, Ill.

1222 Rare Color Photos From the Depression Era

Retiring a locomotive driver wheel, Shopton, Iowa. The tire is heated by means of gas until it can be slipped over the wheel. Contraction on cooling will hold it firmly in shape.

1318 Rare Color Photos From the Depression Era

Ens[ign] Noressey and Cadet Thenics at the Naval Air Base, Corpus Christi, Texas.

1419 Rare Color Photos From the Depression Era

An army practice.

1517 Rare Color Photos From the Depression Era

Photograph shows store or cafe with soft drink signs. Diamond-shaped sign: Fresh Orange-Crush”; above it: Relax and enjoy Royal Crown Cola.

1618 Rare Color Photos From the Depression Era

Day laborers picking cotton, near Clarksdale, Miss. 1939 Nov.

1716 Rare Color Photos From the Depression Era

Sawmill at the Greensboro Lumber Co., Greensboro, Ga.

1816 Rare Color Photos From the Depression Era

Instructor and students studying a map, Meacham Field, Fort Worth, Tex.

1915 Rare Color Photos From the Depression Era

Jack Whinery, homesteader, and his family, Pie Town, New Mexico.

209 Rare Color Photos From the Depression Era

Cutting the pies and cakes at the barbeque dinner, Pie Town, New Mexico Fair. 1940 Oct.

2126 Rare Color Photos From the Depression Era

School children singing, Pie Town, New Mexico 1940 Oct.

2217 Rare Color Photos From the Depression Era

Garden adjacent to the dugout home of Jack Whinery, homesteader, Pie Town, New Mexico.

2316 Rare Color Photos From the Depression Era

Loading cargo on a freighter in the harbor of Frederiksted, St. Croix, Virgin Islands. Because there is no pier, the ship must anchor far from shore.

2417 Rare Color Photos From the Depression Era

Lincoln, Nebraska.

2514 Rare Color Photos From the Depression Era

Answering the nation’s need for womanpower, Mrs. Virginia Davis made arrangement for the care of her two children during the day and joined her husband at work in the Naval Air Base, Corpus Christi, Texas. Both are employed under Civil Service in the Asse.