Colour photos of USA in 30s & 40s

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Trucks outside of a starch factory, Caribou, Aroostook County, Me. (1940)

 

Saying grace before the barbecue dinner at the Pie Town, New Mexico Fair, 1940

 

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

 

Harvesting oats, southeastern Georgia (c.1940)

 

Main Street, Creede, Colorado, at the mouth of Willow Creek Canyon. (December 1942)

 

Scrap and salvage depot, Butte, Montana (October 1942)

 

 

Ive only shown the transport related pics, the rest are here:

http://www.businessinsider.com/great-depression-color-photos-2011-5?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social&utm_term&utm_content&utm_campaign=fanpage#houston-texas--1943-1

[Pete-M]

Scrap and salvage depot, Butte, Montana (October 1942)

 

Evel Kneivel's home town, that.

 

Ace pics. Ta.

[Tayne]

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[Mash]

I think it was Barrett who first brought these to our attention last year. This the original link which has tons of images on it. Might be some duplicates - I'm at work so can't see FB!!

 

http://blogs.denverpost.com/captured/20 ... 1943/2363/

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I think it was Barrett who first brought these to our attention last year. This the original link which has tons of images on it. Might be some duplicates - I'm at work so can't see FB!!

 

http://blogs.denverpost.com/captured/20 ... 1943/2363/

 

oooooh more photos

 

Hay stack and automobile of peach pickers. Delta County, Colorado, 1940

 

On main street of Cascade. Cascade, Idaho, July 1941

 

Road cut into the barren hills which lead into Emmett. Emmett, Idaho, July 1941

 

Wisdom, Montana, April 1942.

 

A crossroads store, bar, "juke joint," and gas station in the cotton plantation area. Melrose, Louisiana, June 1940

 

Street corner. Dillon, Montana, August 1942

 

Servicing an A-20 bomber. Langley Field, Virginia, July 1942

[flat4alfa]

Street corner. Dillon, Montana, August 1942

[Rusty Pelican]

Great pics , thanks for posting , that last comparison pic in Dilton , WHF stuck that casino on the end , some of the original building is still evident but that casino sucks

[Lukas]

Wonderful pictures! I love the impressions on the peoples faces. Someone said times were better back then. Pah...

[triang1]

Great street scenes - I can just see Levis trying to recreate them for that authentic 'O'l boys ' look. Some of these things (Juke joints, one horse midwest towns) are so familiar as recreation in adverts and films that it's sometimes hard to believe they were real in the first place - they seem as mythical as Lord of the Rings (Mordor or whatever?)

[Mr Lobster]

Like these a lot. Interesting to see the present day pictures. Creede, Colorado looks a nice place, not too sure about Dillon though.

 

I'd really like to spend a bit of time in smalltown America though. I must have been watching Everwood too much...