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America in Color from 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 Color..
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
4 th 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 The Denver Post Music: Kevin Kern - Through the Arbor For comments click here 8/2010
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