Captured America in colour

[benjiboy]

One of my sons sent me a link of pictures that were taken for the FSA in the thirty's and forties I thought other member might like to see Dead Link Removed

 

[Sirius Glass]

Thank you, I enjoyed that.

Steve

 

[Ken Nadvornick]

Magnificent.

And an interesting quote #11 from the comment posts which follow the photos:

James Dyas Davidson says:
"A wonderful set of pictures. Thanks for sharing them. Makes me want to go back to film cameras!"

Ken

 

[blansky]

That's pretty cool.

99% of all those people are dead now.

They lived pretty hard lives as well.

Poverty is a bitch.


Michael

 

[Jeff Kubach]

Those photos are great! Really enjoyed looking at them. Thanks Ben.

Jeff

 

[MartinCrabtree]

Something has been lost in the time between now and then. Most of those pictured are not poor. It's just a simpler lifestyle than we're familiar with. Rampant consumerism and debt do not equate wealth only the choice to live outside your means. There is no shame in being poor.

Those are some wonderful images.

 

[andrewkirkby]

Beautiful. The Library of Congress has a flickr account with thousands of beautiful colour images. I'll post the link when i get home

 

[blansky]

Something has been lost in the time between now and then. Most of those pictured are not poor. It's just a simpler lifestyle than we're familiar with. Rampant consumerism and debt do not equate wealth only the choice to live outside your means. There is no shame in being poor.

Those are some wonderful images.

Not to belabor the point but back then there was no real middle class as today. These people in these pictures are very much lower middle (as we define it today) and lower class.

I was born in 1951 and even at that, these people look poor. Most people of that time didn't live much past their sixties, if that. The hard work took its toll.

As for shame, I never brought it up and these people look proud.


Michael

 

[bobwysiwyg]

Beautiful. The Library of Congress has a flickr account with thousands of beautiful colour images. I'll post the link when i get home

Please do post that link, I'd love to see them. These were great too, thanks for posting. Makes you wonder if we have come a long way... or not.

 

[andrewkirkby]

Please do post that link, I'd love to see them. These were great too, thanks for posting. Makes you wonder if we have come a long way... or not.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/library_of_congress/sets/72157603671370361/

That's it

There are also thousands of other beautiful B&W images in there too.

 

[bobwysiwyg]

Thank you. I really like tripping back through old pics. Some of the mouse-over info. on the images was informative, and on occasion, humorous.

 

[benjiboy]

Looking at these images and images I see of the same period in Britain makes me sad, and think how true it is that " The past is another country"

 

[benjiboy]

How about this one I just came across today http://www.discoveringhawaii.com/Dr..._Maui,_Kauai,_Molokai_and_The_Big_Island.html theres loads of stuff on here if you scroll down.

 

[Jeff Kubach]

Those are very good photos. Thanks Ben.

Jeff

 

[bonk]

awsome: America in Color during the great depression 1939-1943

http://extras.denverpost.com/archive/captured.html

This is beautiful. Has anyone more background info around this. What is the story of those pictures.

Also (where) an I buy a book with these pictures somehwere?

 

[AgX]

There is already a thread on this started a few days ago.

 

[bonk]

Do you have the link? I can`t find it.

 

[MattKing]

Here is the link:

(there was a url link here which no longer exists)

I think the reason you couldn't find it is that "colour" is spelled correctly

I'll try to alert the moderators

 

[Dan Daniel]

Library of Congress photo collection- FSA color photos-
http://www.loc.gov/pictures/collection/fsac/

 

[Dan Daniel]

Not sure if the Library of Congress flickr account is a straight duplicate, but here is the LOC's collection-
http://www.loc.gov/pictures/collection/fsac/

 

[SuzanneR]

Threads merged.

 

[2F/2F]

That's pretty cool.

99% of all those people are dead now.

They lived pretty hard lives as well.

Poverty is a bitch.


Michael

Indeed...and all this time later, people are still starving and homeless in this country.