The DenverPost.com recently highlighted some wonderful photographs taken by photographers of the Farm Security Administration/Office.
The photographs are the property of the Library of Congress and are some of the only color photographs taken of the effects of the Depression on America’s rural and small town populations.
This interesting collection of photographs is searchable by keyword, location, and subject. Click Here to view the whole collection.
Here are just a few of my favorites:
At the Vermont state fair. Rutland, Vermont, September 1941. Reproduction from color slide. Photo by Jack Delano. Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress
Women workers employed as wipers in the roundhouse having lunch in their rest room, Chicago and Northwest Railway Company. Clinton, Iowa, April 1943. Reproduction from color slide. Photo by Jack Delano. Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress
Children in the tenement district. Brockton, Massachusetts, December 1940. Reproduction from color slide. Photo by Jack Delano. Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress
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2 comments:
Those are some amazing photos; I went and looked up a few more on the website. They don't quite look like modern photos, yet they don't look old, either.
I think seeing them in color throws us off. We are used to period photos being black and white. It's like looking at them in a whole new way; reminding us they did live in a world of color :-)
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