America Captured In Color Photographs From 1939 – 1943

Every now and then I run across a Photo Blog - or Plog - that stops me in my tracks. This is one of those.

It's a series of images from the 2006 Library of Congress exhibit, Bound For Glory: America In Color.

Color, that's the operative word here. These images were captured on color slide film between 1939 and 1943. Color photography was in its infancy and the United States was in the depths of an ongoing economic depression, two things that make these phtotographs so rare and so poignant. These amazing images capture moments that are unique, intimate, mundane, private and public from rural areas, small towns and large cities across America. The settings range from the dusty cotton fields of the south to the huge railroad yards of the midwest and each photo has a caption explaining the subject and, when possible, identify the photographer.

Click here to visit the Denver Post Photoblog, Captured: America in Color.

Now pick up your digital camera and start clicking! It kinda makes you wonder who's going to be looking at them 70 years from now.

Dave D.