America in Color: 1939-1943

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Photographers working for the FSA/OWI were sent out to photograph the effects of the Depression and, later, the war effort, on rural and small-town America. Some of them were color slides. And they are amazing evocations of another era:

http://blogs.denverpost.com/captured/2010/07/26/captured-america-in-color-from-1939-1943/

[Catinca]

If you are interested in these types of photographs, you should take a look at the work of Dorothea Lange and Walker Evans. There were a bunch of other photographers involved in the movement, but those two are probably the most famous. As I majored in photography, I had to learn a LOT about this era, which (if you want to Google it) was called the "FSA" or "Farm Security Administration" movement.

[Retrospectiv]

Those were really fantastic, thanks for sharing : )