Last night I was on flickr and found a huge collection of photos from the US, Puerto Rico and Virgin Island from the 1930s-1940s. What impressed me about the photos is that they are in color. All the photos I’ve seen of Puerto Rico from that time were in black and white. Here is the description of the album.
“These vivid color photos from the Great Depression and World War II capture an era generally seen only in black-and-white. Photographers working for the United States Farm Security Administration (FSA) and later the Office of War Information (OWI) created the images between 1939 and 1944.
We invite your tags and comments! Also, more identification information. (The current titles come from the agency’s original documentation, which was sometimes incomplete.)
The FSA/OWI pictures depict life in the United States, including Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands, with a focus on rural areas and farm labor, as well as aspects of World War II mobilization, including factories, railroads, aviation training, and women working.
The original images are color transparencies ranging in size from 35 mm. to 4×5 inches. They complement the better-known black-and-white FSA/OWI photographs, made during the same
period.
The Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division preserves
the original photographs and offers the digital copies to ensure their wide availability.
For more information about the collection and to see the approximately 171,000 black-and-white photos, visit: lcweb2.loc.gov/pp/fsacabt.html”
You can check the photos on the The Library of Congress’ flickr page. Interesting to see how things were in the 30s-40s. Check the faces of the people in the photos you can see that those were not good times, specially the photos from Puerto Rico. Also check the Coca Cola signs, they were everywhere.
