“These images, by photographers of the Farm Security Administration/Office of War Information, are some of the only color photographs taken of the effects of the Depression on America’s rural and small town populations. The photographs are the property of the Library of Congress and were included in a 2006 exhibit Bound for Glory: America in Color.”
- Denver Post
Colour photographs of America
Worker at carbon black plant. Sunray, Texas, 1942
Rural school children. San Augustine County, Texas, April 1943
Hanna furnaces of the Great Lakes Steel Corporation, stock pile of coal and iron ore. Detroit, Michigan, November 1942
Woman is working on a "Vengeance" dive bomber Tennessee, February 1943
P-51 'Mustang' fighter in flight. Inglewood, California, October 1942
Assembling B-25 bombers at North American Aviation. Kansas City, Kansas, October 1942
Construction work at the TVA's Douglas Dam. Tennessee, June 1942
Welder making boilers for a ship, Combustion Engineering Company. Chattanooga, Tennessee, June 1942
Marine glider at Page Field. Parris Island, South Carolina, May 1942
Servicing an A-20 bomber. Langley Field, Virginia, July 1942
Shepherd with his horse and dog on Gravelly Range Madison County, Montana, August 1942
Street corner. Dillon, Montana, August 1942
At Beecher Street School. Southington, Connecticut, May 1942
Children stage a patriotic demonstration. Southington, Connecticut, May 1942
Backstage at the “girlie” show at the state fair. Rutland, Vermont, September 1941
Mrs. Viola Sievers, giving a giant "H" class locomotive a bath of live steam. Clinton, Iowa, April 1943
General view of part of the South Water Street freight depot of the Illinois Central Railroad Chicago, Illinois, May 1943
Switch engine in yard near Calumet Park stockyards, Indiana Harbor Belt Railroad. Calumet City, Illinois, January 1943
Putting the finishing touches on a rebuilt caboose at the rip tracks at Proviso yard. Chicago, Illinois, April 1943
Ike Evans, a welder, at the rip tracks at Proviso yard of the Chicago and Northwest Railway Company. Chicago, Illinois, April 1943
Switchman throwing a switch at Chicago and Northwest Railway Company's Proviso yard. Chicago, Illinois, April 1943
View in a departure yard at Chicago and Northwestern Railway Company's Proviso yard at twilight. Chicago, Illinois, December 1942
A welder who works in the round-house at the Chicago and Northwestern Railway Company's Proviso yard. Chicago, Illinois, December 1942
Chapel, Vadito. Near Penasco, New Mexico, Spring 1943
House. Washington, D.C., between 1941 and 1942
Shulman's market, on N at Union Street S.W. Washington, D.C., between 1941 and 1942
Children aiming sticks as guns, lined up against a brick building. Washington, D.C., between 1941 and 1942
African American migratory workers by a "juke joint". Belle Glade, Florida, February 1941
A store with live fish for sale. Vicinity of Natchitoches, Louisiana, July 1940
Boys fishing in a bayou. Schriever, Louisiana, June 1940
A crossroads store, bar, "juke joint," and gas station in the cotton plantation area. Melrose, Louisiana, June 1940
African American's tenant's home beside the Mississippi River levee. Near Lake Providence, Louisiana, June 1940
Bayou Bourbeau plantation, a Farm Security Administration cooperative. Vicinity of Natchitoches, Louisiana, August 1940
African Americans fishing in creek near cotton plantations. Belzoni, Mississippi, October 1939
Planting corn along a river. Northeastern Tennessee, May 1940
A Fourth of July celebration. St. Helena Island, South Carolina, 1939
Wisdom, Montana, April 1942.
Young African American boy. Cincinnati, Ohio, 1942 or 1943
Grand Grocery Company. Lincoln, Nebraska, 1942.
Shasta dam under construction. California, June 1942
Road cut into the barren hills which lead into Emmett. Emmett, Idaho, July 1941
On main street of Cascade. Cascade, Idaho, July 1941
Hay stack and automobile of peach pickers. Delta County, Colorado, 1940
Hauling crates of peaches from the orchard to the shipping shed. Delta County, Colorado, September 1940
Distributing surplus commodities. St. Johns, Arizona, October 1940
Mill at the Camp Bird Mine. Ouray County, Colorado, October 1940
Garden adjacent to the dugout home of Jack Whinery, homesteader. Pie Town, New Mexico, September 1940
School children singing. Pie Town, New Mexico, October 1940
Homesteader and his children eating barbeque at the New Mexico Fair. Pie Town, New Mexico, October 1940
Saying grace before the barbeque dinner at the New Mexico Fair. Pie Town, New Mexico, October 1940
The Faro Caudill family eating dinner in their dugout. Pie Town, New Mexico, October 1940
Rural school children. San Augustine County, Texas, April 1943
At the Vermont state fair. Rutland, Vermont, September 1941
Barket at the grounds at the state fair. Rutland, Vermont, September 1941
Chopping cotton on rented land near White Plains. White Plains, Greene County, Georgia, June 1941
Going to town on Saturday afternoon. Greene County, Georgia, May 1941
Children in the tenement district. Brockton, Massachusetts, December 1940
Headlines posted in street-corner window of newspaper office (Brockton Enterprise). Brockton, Massachusetts, December 1940
Trucks outside of a starch factory. Caribou, Aroostook County, Maine, October 1940
Children gathering potatoes on a large farm. Vicinity of Caribou, Aroostook County, Maine, October 1940
Farm auction. Derby, Connecticut, September 1940
Connecticut town on the sea. Stonington, Connecticut, November 1940
Faro and Doris Caudill, homesteaders. Pie Town, New Mexico, October 1940
