America in Color 1939-1943

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America in Color from 1939-1943
Manual advance
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• America in Color from 1939-1943
• These images, by photographers of the Farm
  Security Administration/Office of War
  Information, are some of the only color
  photographs taken of the effects of the
  Depression on Americas rural and small town
  populations. The photographs are the property of
  the U.S. Library of Congress and were included in
  a 2006 exhibit Bound for Glory America in
  Color..

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Faro and Doris Caudill, homesteaders ,Pie Town,
New Mexico, 1940
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Farm auction. Derby, Connecticut, 1940
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Gathering potatoes. Caribou, Maine, 1940
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Trucks outside starch factory. Caribou, Me., 1940
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Children in tenement district. Brockton,
Massachusetts, 1940
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Going to town on Saturday afternoon. Green
County, Georgia ,1940
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Chopping cotton on rented land. White plains,
Georgia, 1941
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Barker at grounds of state fair. Rutland,
Vermont, 1941
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Backstage at the girlie show at the state fair.
Ruthland, Vermont, 1941
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Orchestra at square dance. McIntosh County,
Oklahoma,1939
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Children asleep during square dance. McIntosh
County, Oklahoma, 1939
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Homesteader and his family. Pie Town, New Mexico,
1940
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The Faro Caudill family eating dinner at their
dugout. Pie Town, NM, 1940
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Saying grace before barbeque dinner at NM fair.
Pie Town, NM, 1940
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Homesteader and his children eating barbeque at
fair. Pie Town, NM, 1940
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School children singing. Pie Town Fair, NM, 1940
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Distributing surplus commodities. St. Johns,
Arizona, 1940
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Hauling crates of peaches from orchard. Delta
County, colorado, 1940
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On main street. Cascade, Idaho, 1941
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Boy building model airplane. Robstown, Texas, 1942
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Grand Grocery Company. Lincolen, Nebraska, 1942
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Young African American boy. Cincinnati, Ohio, 1942
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4th of July celebration. St. Helena Island, South
Carolina, 1939
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A store with live fish for sale. Natchitoches,
Louisiana, 1940
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Children aiming sticks as guns. Washington, D.C.
1941
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Shulmans market. Washington, D.C. 1941
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Throwing a switch. Chicago, Illinoise, 1943
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Women having lunch at work. Clinton, Iowa, 1943
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Street corner. Dillon, Montana, 1942
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Rural school children. San Augustine County,
Texas, 1943
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Rural school children. Texas, 1943