Photographers working for the U.S. government’s Farm Security Administration (FSA) and later the Office of War Information (OWI) between 1939 and 1944 made approximately 1,600 color photographs that depict life in the United States, including Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands. What did you think? Please tell us in the comment section below and remember to sign up for our free newsletter.
July 30, 2017 @ 10:09 am
WHAT AN OUTSTANDING PRESENTATION!!! SO VERY AMERICANA DEPICTING LIFE IN THE EARLY 1940’S. THE CITIZENS, AT THAT TIME, SEEM TO APPEAR SO DIFFERENT IN MANY ASPECTS. PLEASING FACES AND ALL PEOPLE SEEMED TO BE VERY PROUD OFTHEIR APPEARANCES. FAR CRY FROM MANY OF THE DRESS CODES OF MANY TODAY. SO APPRECIATIVE OF THE WISE PHOTOGRAPHERS TO LEAVE US WITH MEMORIES OF YESTERYEAR. THE QUOTES WERE FLASHED VERY QUICKLY SO I WILL READ AGAIN AND AGAIN UNTIL I MANAGE TO READ EACH CAPTION AND UNDERSTAND. EVERYTHING. SEEMS SO VERY PATRIOTIC AND THE LAST PICTURE WITH OUR BEAUTIFUL FLAGS FLYING ALONG THE STREET IN LINCOLN, NEBR!!! WONDERFUL AND MOST ENJOYABLE DEPICTION OF HOW THINGS WERE DURING OUR WW11 WAR YEARS. APPRECIATED THIS PRESENTION TO THE NTH DEGREE.
July 30, 2017 @ 9:04 pm
Marilyn I so agree with you in every word. My Dad and Mom told me about all of the things Women did then. Dad was in the Navy and flew Blimps in Panama and at the Naval Air Station in Elizabeth City, NC to spot any danger from the Atlantic Ocean. Am proud of the Women of that day.