Post depression years and pre WW2 Pictures from around the USA in Colour!

[hollydolly]

From the Mail today...
Around 1,600 of the vivid images were released by The Library of Congress, which depict what it was like on rural farmlands in America, Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands, from nearly 80 years ago.


I'm re- posting some of the photos because the Mail is notorious for removing articles in minutes if not hours...

Schriever, Louisiana, in 1940. The boys were described as 'Cajun children' of Terrebonne Parish

Corpus Christi, Texas, in August 1942. The image was captioned: 'With a woman's determination, Lorena Craig takes over a man-size job. Before she came to work at the Naval air base she was a department store girl. Now she is a cowler under civil service'

 

[hollydolly]

A family sit on the porch of their house in the Bayou Bourbeau plantation, a FSA cooperative, in the city of Natchitoches, in Louisiana

Several women appeared to cut cake and prepare food as they ready themselves to serve a barbecue dinner at a fair in Pie Town, New Mexico in October 1940

The Faro Caudill family can all be seen eating dinner in their dugout, in Pie Town, New Mexico. Here they are pictured in October 1940

 

[hollydolly]

Taken on Gravelly Range in Madison County, Montana in August 1942.

Three women drill bulkhead screws into a transport plane wing at the Consolidated Aircraft Corporation plant, Fort Worth, Texas in October 1942

 

[hollydolly]

Several men and a few women can be seen at an area where surplus commodities were being distributed. The image was taken in St. Johns, Arizona in October 1940

One man can be seen walking into Grand Grocery Company Farmers Seed Store, in Lincoln, Nebraska, in 1942.

Two-story home in Houston Texas, in May 1943. in the background baskets of what appears to be produce can be seen at a nearby stand along with an advertisement that could read 'Pepsi-Cola'

 

[hollydolly]

Several children sit on the steps of a home in the tenement district in Brockton, Massachusetts in December 1940

A row of establishments on one of the main streets in Cascade in Idaho in July 1941. There appears to be at least two bars

Located on this dusty track in Melrose, Louisiana, is a cross roads store, a bar, a gas station and a 'juke joint' - an establishment for music, dancing, gambling and drinking often run at the time by African Americans. Pictured in June 1940


You'll find the rest here..... https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/ar...ble-color-photographs-life-rural-America.html

 

[hollydolly]

Fantastic photos..... .

Does anyone live in or near any of these places ?...what are they like now 80 years on?

 

[Aunt Bea]

Great photos!

 

[Pink Biz]

Love these pics...drooling over that dessert table!

 

[hollydolly]

I think they're fantastic photos , I agree with you Pinks... ..for the time the colour brings them so much to life and somehow not 80 years old despite the clothing and the old buildings... my mum would have been just around 6 years old at the time these were taken.....