A friend posted on a forum some classic photos taken from 1939-1943 in color! Photos in color were rare back then, and these photos are so vivid and gritty ... I really can't put into words the emotions some of them evoke. This one, in particular, really struck me. It looks like it could have been set and taken today.
Women workers employed as wipers in the roundhouse having lunch in their rest room, Chicago and NW Railway Company. Clinton, Iowa. April 1943. Photo by Jack Delano. (Library of Congress) |
Woman working on a "Vengeance" dive bomber. Tennessee. February 1943. Photo by Alfred T. Palmer. (Library of Congress) |
You can view the rest of these photos by clicking here. Check out No. 30! (Shout out to Lincoln, Nebraska, there!)
5 comments:
Mokumalef says:
These images are indeed quite something else! For something similar(home movies in color!) that recently turned up about pre-1948 Israel, go here:
http://www.blip.tv/file/2915188
Those photos are amazing!
Thanks for posting these! My hometown is in #6 and #7 :))
These are so vivid! I'm going to use a couple of them as story starters for my middle school English students. Thanks!
really cool photos.
i am too lazy to log in - this is glutenfreebay. i just left a comment on the teaneck thread, too
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