Below is a repost of some amazing and rare Library of Congress photos from the Great Depression. Note that these photographs and captions are the property of the Library of Congress and were included in a 2006 exhibit Bound for Glory: America in Color.
What was he thinking as this picture was taken? A young boy in Cinncinnati, Ohio, in 1942 or 1943
Full plates: Homesteader and his children eating barbeque at the New Mexico Fair in Pie Town, New Mexico, October, 1940
Peace: Boys fishing in a bayou in Schriever, Louisiana, June, 1940
Left, a woman cradles a young child at the Bayou Bourbeau plantation, a Farm Security Administration cooperative in the vicinity of Natchitoches, Louisiana, August, 1940. Right, a welder making boilers for a ship at the Combustion Engineering Company in Chattanooga, Tennessee, June, 1942
Left, Mike Evans, a welder, at the rip tracks at Proviso yard of the Chicago and Northwest Railway Company, in Chicago, Illinois, April 1943. Right, a shepherd with his horse and dog on Gravelly Range Madison County, Montana, August 1942
A woman’s work is never done: Mrs Viola Sievers, one of the wipers at the roundhouse, giving a giant ‘H’ class locomotive a bath of live steam in Clinton, Iowa, April 1943
Part of the South Water Street freight depot of the Illinois Central Railroad in Chicago, Illinois, May 1943
Having a chat: Women workers employed as wipers in the roundhouse having lunch in their rest room at the Chicago and Northwest Railway Company in Clinton, Iowa, April 1943
Left, farmers planting corn along a river in north-eastern Tennessee, May 1940. Right, boys hauling crates of peaches from the orchard to the shipping shed in Delta County, Colorado, September 1940
Like a hobbit house: Garden adjacent to the dugout home of homesteader Jack Whinery, in Pie Town, New Mexico, September 1940
Steal of a deal: Left, the Grand Grocery Company in Lincoln, Nebraska, 1942. Right, the Faro Caudill family eating dinner in their dugout in Pie Town, New Mexico, October 1940
Distributing surplus commodities in St Johns, Arizona, October 1940
Shasta dam under construction in California, June 1942
An African American’s tenant’s home beside the Mississippi River levee near Lake Providence, Louisiana, June 1940
Rough men stand ready: M-4 tank crews of the United States in Fort Knox, Kentucky, June 1942
Faro and Doris Caudill, homesteaders, in Pie Town, New Mexico, October 1940. Right, a woman working on a ‘Vengeance’ dive bomber in Tennessee, February 1943
Flying away: A marine glider at Page Field in Parris Island, South Carolina, May 1942, left. Right, servicing an A-20 bomber. Langley Field, Virginia, July 1942
Original over on The DailyMailUK. Also read: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1388179/Rare-Library-Congress-colour-photographs-Great-Depression.html#ixzz1MljFhagy
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