Vivid color photos of America during the 30s & 40s

Wow, The American Library of Congress has an amazing Flickr Set of the 1930-40s Great Depression & World War II era.

4 thoughts on “Vivid color photos of America during the 30s & 40s”

Eric Gao on 19 January, 2008 at 2:17 pm said:

I can’t understand the first pic. What are that lady doing? Print on rope?
Maybe I don’t know much of Americans’ lives, because I’m a Chinese.

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Alistair on 18 January, 2008 at 4:23 pm said:

Incredible, a truly amazing collection of images.

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cookie on 18 January, 2008 at 4:03 pm said:

I know, didn’t even realise they had colour film back in those days!

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Bob on 18 January, 2008 at 3:55 pm said:

These are just amazing. They look like they are shot on film sets.
Excellent find Cookie!

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