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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 Americas rural and small town populations. The photographs are the property of the Library of Congress and were included in a 2006 exhibit Bound for Glory: America in Color.
http://extras.denverpost.com/archive/captured.asp
femmocrat
(28,394 posts)Thanks for posting the link.
Dyedinthewoolliberal
(15,608 posts)I liked these. Did you notice in some of the rural pictures the kids were shoeless?
OxQQme
(2,550 posts)I went shoeless often as a youngster with fast growing feet.
I was born in '40, so these resonated in me.
My parents migrated (separately) from dust bowl states, met up picking lemons in the San Joaquin valley , married in 1939.
Mom's 94 now and still kickin' and has some stories to tell.
GoneOffShore
(17,345 posts)Just rediscovered A. Aubrey Bodine - who was a staff photographer for the Baltimore Sun from 1920 - 1970 - Pictorialist and in my opinion the America Henri Cartier-Bresson
Some shots here http://www.baltimoresun.com/entertainment/bal-bodine-pg,0,4112830.photogallery
Major Nikon
(36,827 posts)It was created out of the New Deal effort and was eventually absorbed by the military during WWII. Some of the most famous and influential photographers in America came out of the program. Dorothea Lange, Gordon Parks, and Ben Shahn all came out of that program.
Scuba
(53,475 posts)... as there is no cotton present. Looks like they're using hoes to prepare the field for planting.
raccoon
(31,131 posts)Dalai_1
(1,301 posts)Thank you for posting this
HughBeaumont
(24,461 posts)Want to see this on the good monitor . .