'America In Color: 1939-1943'

What a beautiful tapestry of that era! Some pictures are very poignant!

I was amazed to see a few pictures from Caribou, Maine. I grew up not even an hour from there. I can remember my cousins, who lived in Maine, having almost a month off of school, so they could go pick potatoes. They would get paid by the barrel. Good memories!

I was really touched by some of the pictures, especially the one where children fell asleep on a bed, during a Square Dance event. Then you have a picture of a little African-American boy, just staring in the camera with a solemn expression on his face. Beautiful in its simplicity. I loved the picture of the cowboy with his shepherd dog, then the one with the 4 boys at a rural school in Texas, and finally, the one of the worker at the carbon plant.

Great find P. ! Thanks for posting the link here. I don't spend enough time at the Nikon Café!
 
Great post!! This is really great. Thanks P!


Not often I can find 40s architecture!:wiggle:
 
....Great photos. Maybe many were shot using Ektachrome film due to the 'warmth-glow' one feels in looking at them. But maybe it's just a nostalgia thing looking for a simpler period in American history.....
 
brad kaste said:
....Great photos. Maybe many were shot using Ektachrome film due to the 'warmth' one feels in looking at them. But maybe it's just a nostalgia thing looking for a simpler period in American history.....
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Nicely said Brad...there's just something about the "simple life", that's missing nowadays.
 
Great photos Panther, and thanks for that link. Amazing how things have changed. Of the photos showing New England, imagine trying to find those exact places today.

I wish I had my familes photos from back in the 30s, 40s, and even the 50s to show kids today what life was like back then.
 
A wonderful find! Thank You!!.....Trouble is it can remind some just how life was..the dam depression,and into a great dam world war...Those people today are refereed to by some, as the greatest generation,hell they did not think so then,..life was tough ,yet the true American dreams gave all hope!
Again thanx for the memories..These pictures are keepers.museum quality,.It was a great experience growing up then.......Vin!
 
Wonderful photos. What an eye opener. These photos just look like they were taken yesterday! Life looks so much more simple in those photos...there were poor families living in makeshift abodes, look at the children and their bare feet. An unique glimpse into life in the early 1940's through these color photos. Thanks P for sharing them with us.
 
These are powerful and emotional images, Panther, and it seems to me that the collection has been enhanced since the last time I went to see it. Not sure.

But who said that living poor was simple ? It's actually awfully complicated, stressful and not enjoyable at all :engel016:!
 
Wow. Those are some poignant pics. Beautifull media and well crafted, but the content of the pics made me squirm...life looked pretty damn rough. Especially shot #70 of the guy at the carbon black plant. I've got it easy.

I enjoyed my time living New England, also. Portsmouth, New Hampshire was a great little place.
 
We white folk sure wore some drab clothes in those days. And black ladies still wear hats with their Sunday best! Great nostalgia Panther, seeing an African-American woman working on the airplane, I never knew there were any black Rosies, ditto the wipers in the RR yards, I never knew women did that in those days either.

And one thing is universal to this day, we all like BBQ.

Caz
 
Recognized a lot of the photographer's work, especially Russell Lee and Jack Delano.
Their pictures really stood out to me.
I've seen so much of their Black and White photography for years over at Shorpy's

Great stuff, have to bookmark that.
So much stuff being put up from the National Archives and the Time/Life library, it's great to see.

If you like old B&W photography from the past couple centuries too, I'm going to plug Shorpy's again and again. :d
"#15 Best Blog of 2010 as voted by Time Magazine"...

http://www.shorpy.com/
 
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