Color photography of America in years before World War II [more...]

Bayou Bourbeau plantation, a Farm Security Administration cooperative. Vicinity of Natchitoches, Louisiana, August 1940. Reproduction from color slide. Photo by Marion Post Wolcott. Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress

African American’s tenant’s home beside the Mississippi River levee. Near Lake Providence, Louisiana, June 1940. Reproduction from color slide. Photo by Marion Post Wolcott. Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress

A crossroads store, bar, “juke joint,” and gas station in the cotton plantation area. Melrose, Louisiana, June 1940. Reproduction from color slide. Photo by Marion Post Wolcott. Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress

Boys fishing in a bayou. Schriever, Louisiana, June 1940. Reproduction from color slide. Photo by Marion Post Wolcott. Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress

Fish saler. Reproduction from color slide. Photo by Marion Post Wolcott. Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress

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Color Photography From Before 1950

1915 - Austro-Hungarian POWs In Russia

1941 - Students at Washington High School Training For The War Effort, Los Angeles

1942 - Barrage Balloon, South Carolina

1942 - Two Female Employees Of North American Aviation Assembling A P-51 Fighter Plane

1942 - Worker At The Douglas Aircraft Company Assembles A Navy Bomber

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Color photography of America in years before World War II

Faro and Doris Caudill, homesteaders. Pie Town, New Mexico, October 1940. Reproduction from color slide. Photo by Russell Lee. Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress

Connecticut town on the sea. Stonington, Connecticut, November 1940. Reproduction from color slide. Photo by Jack Delano. Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress

Farm auction. Derby, Connecticut, September 1940. Reproduction from color slide. Photo by Jack Delano. Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress

Children gathering potatoes on a large farm. Vicinity of Caribou, Aroostook County, Maine, October 1940. Reproduction from color slide. Photo by Jack Delano. Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress

Trucks outside of a starch factory. Caribou, Aroostook County, Maine, October 1940. Reproduction from color slide. Photo by Jack Delano. Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress

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Young mine workers America 1910

Working life in New South Wales

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Beautiful color pictures of American woman in 1940s

Pictures from the 1940's of women building bomber planes.

Fort Worth, Texas Oct. 1942

Long Beach, California Oct. 1942

Corpus Christi, Texas August 1942

Nashville, Tennessee Feb. 1943

Corpus Christi, Texas August 1942

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Moscow in 1930s [more]

Anti-NEP propaganda

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New Harbor fisherman shows two boys how to rig a trap

Empire State Building, worker signaling on high beam. 1930

Dockyard, Belfast, 1911

Dockyard, Belfast, 1911 (watch the TITANIC in the background!)

Lunch atop a Skyscraper, 1932

Lunch atop a Skyscraper (New York Construction Workers Lunching on a Crossbeam) is a famous photograph taken in 1932 by Charles C. Ebbets during construction of the RCA Building (renamed as the GE Building in 1986) at Rockefeller Center.