Friday, October 22, 2010

25 Early-Color, American, Photographs Mapped on SepiaTown


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Links to More photos...

Rutland, Vermont

Brockton, Massachusetts

Caribou, Maine

Southington, Connecticut

Melrose, Louisiana

Campton, Kentucky

St. Helena Island, South Carolina

Romney, West Virginia

Beaumont, Texas

Kansas City, Kansas

Lincoln, Nebraska
http://www.sepiatown.com/812370-Looking-NE-Across-P-Street

Pie Town, New Mexico

Cascade, Idaho


Above are links to 25 color photographs taken by U.S. Farm Security Administration (FSA) photographers between 1939 and 1944.

Here's the Library of Congress's description of these photographs...

"Photographers working for the U.S. government's Farm Security Administration (FSA) and later the Office of War Information (OWI) between 1939 and 1944 made approximately 1,600 color photographs that depict life in the United States, including Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands. The pictures 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 4x5 inches. They complement the better-known black-and-white FSA/OWI photographs, made during the same period."

Learn more about these photos here.

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