Captured: America in Color from 1939-1943

[namvet]

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 America’s rural and small town populations. The photographs are the property of the Library of Congress and were included in a 2006 exhibit Bound for Glory: America in Color.

Images here

what caught my eye

Assembling B-25 bombers at North American Aviation. Kansas City, Kansas, October 1942. Reproduction from color slide. Photo by Alfred T. Palmer. Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress

this is the plant my mom worked in during the war. the Fairfax plant. which is today a GM assembly plant

[Sweetchuck]

Yellow?

I thought they were green.

[namvet]

Yellow?

I thought they were green.

ever here of paint jobs????

[Sweetchuck]

ever here of paint jobs????

Here here!!

[namvet]

Here here!!

my guess is the camera had a filter on it

the finished product

[Sweetchuck]

Ok - I get it now. Yellow primer.

Ah, the good ol' days when wars drove manufacturing.

[namvet]

Ok - I get it now. Yellow primer.

Ah, the good ol' days when wars drove manufacturing.

you may be right

[LuvRPgrl]

ever here of paint jobs????

I havent heard of any kind of jobs since Obama took over