Amazing Color Photos From the 1930′s and 1940′s

Today we are spoiled with digital photography, social media, and an advancing technology that literally let’s us create some fantastic color or black and white photos from just about anywhere in the world and share them with anybody. In the 1930′s and 1940′s, black and white was the standard depiction of photos and cameras weren’t exactly widely used by everyone. Being able to find some great old photos is always very interesting, especially if they are in color.

Photographers working for the United States Farm Security Administration (FSA) and later the Office of War Information (OWI) took these color pictures during the Great Depression and World War II. The photos depict life in the rural areas of the United States as well as aspects of World War II mobilization such as women working, aviation training, railroads, and factories.


Operating a hand drill at Vultee-Nashville, woman is working on a "Vengeance" dive bomber, Tennessee (LOC)



Woman aircraft worker, Vega Aircraft Corporation, Burbank, Calif. Shown checking electrical assemblies (LOC)


Shepherd with his horse and dog on Gravelly Range, Madison County, Montana (LOC)


House, Houston, Texas (LOC)


Commuters, who have just come off the train, waiting for the bus to go home, Lowell, Mass. (LOC)


Street corner, Brockton, Mass. (LOC)


At the Vermont state fair, Rutland (LOC)


Headlines posted in street-corner window of newspaper office (Brockton Enterprise) Brockton, Mass. (LOC)


At the Vermont state fair, Rutland (LOC)


At the Vermont state fair, Rutland (LOC)


"Backstage" at the "girlie" show at the Vermont state fair, Rutland (LOC)


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