color photos of america 1939-1943

these are awesome:

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

http://denverpost.slideshowpro.com/albums/001/496/album-125171/cache/color066.sJPG_950_2000_0_75_0_50_50.sJPG?1299151632

i'd also like to give props to the denver post for not making this a clickable slideshow.

thanks for this post, these are great

amazing! its crazy seeing these times in colour. i remember somewhere else i saw pics of russia taken in like 1910 + it was the same sort of deal

the russian ones are linked on that page! right at the bottom

ha whoops i hadnt got to the bottom when i posted that

Picture No. 30 . . . on the one hand, 25 cents for 4 pounds of apples. On the other hand, good luck scrounging up 25 cents.

Someone stop me before I make a Napoleon Dynamite joke . . .

http://denverpost.slideshowpro.com/albums/001/496/album-125171/cache/color016.sJPG_950_2000_0_75_0_50_50.sJPG?1299159046

lol yeah it's a good-looking family except for

i think i know them. web designers who moved to western mass from brooklyn. plus, she sells those hand-made dresses on etsy.

definitely locavores

These are pretty amazing, thanks for the link..

this is where I try to rep for ILP

let us now catalogue famous people

I mean, not to be on some "I was on this before anybody" tip, just tryna spread the word about ILP (the other one), you know

yah when i saw it was from last year i thought it might be posted somewhere but a cursory search didn't yield an obvious thread title.

I saw the exhibition at the Amon Carter Museum a coupla years back, it's fantastic. I heart prints made from that old Kodachrome, beyond the subject matter you can get lost in the color.

loving the comments section

RUTH CALVIN says:
March 2, 2011 at 11:31 am

These pictures were absolutely wonderful. I was born in 1941 but have always had a feel for those earlier times. I love antiques from that era also. My granddaughter is only 22 and she will love these pictures!! I said, OMG after almost every picture.

Clara Cooke says:
February 28, 2011 at 7:40 am

Thanks. Being a ‘33 baby, I, like the Maine boys picking potatoes, also tried to pick potatoes during the WWII. I wore printed grain bag dirndle skirts. I do not look through rose colored glasses; those days were horrible, little to eat, shoes with cardboard stuffed inside to cover the holes in the soles, rationed sugar etc. With all our strife in this world today, I would not trade it for yesteryear. I pray for the wisdom of our leaders to solve the pressing problems.

Pie Town, New Mexico!

These are really amazing. Last one of carbon black plant worker is wow...