Geezer From United States of America, joined Aug 2010, 1468 posts, RR: 2 Posted (3 months 3 weeks 8 hours ago) and read 610 times:
The images below were scanned from old color transparencies and put on the internet by the Library of Congress for the world to see. Some of them tell a story, some are sad, a few are surprisingly colorful for the era, and a few are related to World War2
I think it's safe to say, most, if not all of the photographer who took them are no longer with us.
I suppose you could say they represent "Americana".
Servicing an A-20 Bomber during WW 2 1940s
B-25 Assembly plant, Kansas City, Kansas during WW 2
M-4 tank crew, Ft. Knox, Kentucky, 1942
Marine glider, Paris Island, 1942
A-26 Attack Bomber "Moon Over Miami" 1943
No. 7 Brockton, Mass. 1940
No. 9 Chopping cotton in Georgia 1940s
No. 40 Natchitoches, Louisiana, July, 1940
No. 48 Railroad Yards, Chicago, April, 1943
No.52 Chicago freight yards, May 1943
No.58 Shepard with horse and dog; somewhere in Montana, 1942
No.1 Homesteaders, Pie Town, New Mexico, October , 1940
No.10 Barker, State Fair, Rutland, Vermont, September, 1941
No.21 Dugout home, Pie Town, New Mexicao, 1940
No.22 Mine at Ouray, Colorado, October, 1940
No.25 Haystack, Delta County, Colorado 1940
No.26 Cascade, Idaho July, 1941
No.27 Construction of Shasta Dam, California, June, 1942
No.30 Grocery Store, Lincoln , Nebraska 1942
No32 Wisdom, Montana April, 1942
No.53 Clinton, Iowa, 1943
Lamp black worker, Sunray, Texas 1942
No.5 Caribou, Maine, October ,1940
My favorite is No. 58
Charley
Stupidity: Doing the same thing over and over and over again and expecting a different result; Albert Einstein
Yes, a lovely one. Oddly enough, though, it was No. 48 that caught my eye. Purely because, as it happens, the first US city I visited (in the '60s) was Chicago; and that picture gets over my very first impressions - basically how good the Americans were at building things on a massive scale, and how hard everyone had to work!
"Once you have flown, you will walk the earth with your eyes turned skywards.." - Leonardo da Vinci
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