America in Color from 1939-1943

America in Color from 1939-1943America in Color from 1939-1943

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America in Color from 1939-1943

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 are the property of the U.S. Library of Congress and were included in a 2006 exhibit Bound for Glory: America in

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Faro and Doris Caudill, homesteaders ,Pie Town, New Mexico, 1940

Farm auction. Derby, Connecticut, 1940

Gathering potatoes. Caribou, Maine, 1940

Trucks outside starch factory. Caribou, Me., 1940

Children in tenement district. Brockton, Massachusetts, 1940

Going to town on Saturday afternoon. Green County, Georgia ,1940

Chopping cotton on rented land. White plains, Georgia, 1941

Barker at grounds of state fair. Rutland, Vermont, 1941

Backstage at the “girlie” show at the state fair. Ruthland, Vermont, 1941

Orchestra at square dance. McIntosh County, Oklahoma,1939

Children asleep during square dance. McIntosh County, Oklahoma, 1939

Homesteader and his family. Pie Town, New Mexico, 1940

The Faro Caudill family eating dinner at their dugout. Pie Town, NM, 1940

Saying grace before barbeque dinner at NM fair. Pie Town, NM, 1940

Homesteader and his children eating barbeque at fair. Pie Town, NM, 1940

School children singing. Pie Town Fair, NM, 1940

Distributing surplus commodities. St. Johns, Arizona, 1940

Hauling crates of peaches from orchard. Delta County, colorado, 1940

On main street. Cascade, Idaho, 1941

Boy building model airplane. Robstown, Texas, 1942

Grand Grocery Company. Lincolen, Nebraska, 1942

Young African American boy. Cincinnati, Ohio, 1942

4th of July celebration. St. Helena Island, South Carolina, 1939

A store with live fish for sale. Natchitoches, Louisiana, 1940

Children aiming sticks as guns. Washington, D.C. 1941

Shulman’s market. Washington, D.C. 1941

Throwing a switch. Chicago, Illinoise, 1943

Women having lunch at work. Clinton, Iowa, 1943

Street corner. Dillon, Montana, 1942

Rural school children. San Augustine County, Texas, 1943

Rural school children. Texas, 1943

Photo sources: U.S.Library of Congress

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