A Slice Of Life In Color: The 1930s And 1940s

The Library of Congress has a wonderful collection of color images from the 1930s and 1940s online and in their Flickr photo stream. The collection is called 1930s-40s in Color and showcases color images from the Great Depression and World War II.

Photographs taken at this time typically were shot using black-and-white film. These photographs, however, were shot in color by photographers working for the United States Farm Security Administration (FSA) and the Office of War Information (OWI).

The collection is rather large and contains with 1,615 images. All are wonderful slices of life from a time both familiar, yet different, from our own. Some of the images are truly breathtaking. Each of the images have a story to tell. 

I have selected and presented a few of the images here on KerrSplat!! I invite you, though, to go browse and view the entire collection. The Library of Congress has done a wonderful job preserving and making these images available to us.

Enjoy!!