1600 color photos from 1939-1944 showing life in the U.S. released

2010-08-07 20:12:46

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Macbeth: Banned; +2,444|5978

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. The pictures focus on rural areas and farm labor, as well as aspects of World War II mobilization, including factories, railroads, aviation training, and women working.

http://www.loc.gov/pictures/collection/fsac/
Go to the link and click view all. It's pretty cool.

https://lcweb2.loc.gov/service/pnp/fsac/1a34000/1a34300/1a34396r.jpg

https://lcweb2.loc.gov/service/pnp/fsac/1a34000/1a34800/1a34896r.jpg

2010-08-07 20:19:22

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krazed: Admiral of the Bathtub; +619|7172|Great Brown North

wow

2010-08-07 20:26:10

#3

-Sh1fty-: plundering yee booty; +510|5866|Ventura, California

FUUUUUUUUUU- That's awesome!

I would love to have lived back then

And above your tomb, the stars will belong to us.

2010-08-07 20:29:23

#4

RTHKI: mmmf mmmf mmmf; +1,745|7130|Cinncinatti

but then you couldnt send messages over the internet about how you would have loved to have lived back then D:

nice, but just a part of the influx of black and white pics being colored

2010-08-07 20:31:04

#5

-Sh1fty-: plundering yee booty; +510|5866|Ventura, California

RTHKI wrote:
nice, but just a part of the influx of black and white pics being colored

this

And above your tomb, the stars will belong to us.

2010-08-07 21:09:13

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firebolt5: Member; +114|6548

-Sh1fty- wrote:
FUUUUUUUUUU- That's awesome!

I would love to have lived back then

To join the marines during WWII, no doubt...

2010-08-07 22:34:43

#7

-Sh1fty-: plundering yee booty; +510|5866|Ventura, California

firebolt5 wrote:
-Sh1fty- wrote:
FUUUUUUUUUU- That's awesome!

I would love to have lived back then
To join the marines during WWII, no doubt...

I don't know if I would. For me it would mostly be for the living style they had, the cars, the way small towns were n stuff, it seems really cool.

And above your tomb, the stars will belong to us.

2010-08-07 23:51:30

#8

DrunkFace: Germans did 911; +427|7074|Disaster Free Zone

-Sh1fty- wrote:
firebolt5 wrote:
-Sh1fty- wrote:
FUUUUUUUUUU- That's awesome!

I would love to have lived back then
To join the marines during WWII, no doubt...
I don't know if I would. For me it would mostly be for the living style they had, the cars, the way small towns were n stuff, it seems really cool.

And by cool, you mean shit?

2010-08-08 00:57:20

#9

Cybargs: Moderated; +2,285|7109

DrunkFace wrote:
-Sh1fty- wrote:
firebolt5 wrote:

To join the marines during WWII, no doubt...
I don't know if I would. For me it would mostly be for the living style they had, the cars, the way small towns were n stuff, it seems really cool.
And by cool, you mean shit?

Shifty would love to live in a hooversville.

https://cache.www.gametracker.com/server_info/203.46.105.23:21300/b_350_20_692108_381007_FFFFFF_000000.png

2010-08-08 08:57:56

#10

-Sh1fty-: plundering yee booty; +510|5866|Ventura, California

I want to live in so many time periods

Like ancient Greece, during the building of the pyramids (but not be building them ), exploring North and South America when it was still brand new, etc.

And above your tomb, the stars will belong to us.

2010-08-08 09:09:26

#11

Cybargs: Moderated; +2,285|7109

-Sh1fty- wrote:
I want to live in so many time periods

Like ancient Greece, during the building of the pyramids (but not be building them ), exploring North and South America when it was still brand new, etc.

You need to read up more history books.

2010-08-08 09:11:38

#12

jord: Member; +2,382|7071|The North, beyond the wall.

I'd like to go back to Ancient Rome and witness them building the statue of liberty.

2010-08-08 09:18:48

#13

Cybargs: Moderated; +2,285|7109

jord wrote:
I'd like to go back to Ancient Rome and witness them building the statue of liberty.

the germans built them dickhead.

fuck sakes jord

2010-08-08 09:21:10

#14

-Sh1fty-: plundering yee booty; +510|5866|Ventura, California

Cybargs wrote:
-Sh1fty- wrote:
I want to live in so many time periods

Like ancient Greece, during the building of the pyramids (but not be building them ), exploring North and South America when it was still brand new, etc.
You need to read up more history books.

I know

And above your tomb, the stars will belong to us.

2010-08-08 09:32:16

#15

Uzique: dasein.; +2,865|6863

shifty you have a very romanticised naive view of history

life sucked and was way harder then

i suppose it's pretty easy for a middle-class swiss internet-lurker to fantasize about being an amazon explorer or a marine

sadly you are far from it

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2010-08-08 09:43:19

#16

jord: Member; +2,382|7071|The North, beyond the wall.

If you go back in time and can't return you're going to be missing a lot of your home comforts and living conditions.

You want to be going in to the future, to 2050, then you'll proper appreciate 3d gaming/flying cars/the Chinese language.

Last edited by jord (2010-08-08 09:43:33)

2010-08-08 10:07:56

#17

love this link macbeth thanks!!
i searched texas first and found this pic. awsum
Mrs. Eloise J. Ellis has been appointed by civil service to be senior supervisor in the Assembly and Repairs Department at the Naval Air Base, Corpus Christi, Texas.

https://lcweb2.loc.gov/service/pnp/fsac/1a34000/1a34800/1a34891r.jpg

https://lcweb2.loc.gov/service/pnp/fsac/1a34000/1a34800/1a34867r.jpg

my grandmother worked in washington d.c. during this period. they hired her all the way from Texas and i have only seen a few B/W photos. will chk out that areas pics

2010-08-09 07:47:44

#18

krazed: Admiral of the Bathtub; +619|7172|Great Brown North

-Sh1fty- wrote:
I want to live in so many time periods

Like ancient Greece, during the building of the pyramids (but not be building them ), exploring North and South America when it was still brand new, etc.

good luck with the tribes tbh, not all of them were the happy peaceful farmer types the disney version of Pocahontas makes them out to be

2010-08-09 07:56:16

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eleven bravo: Member; +1,399|5652|foggy bottom

pepperidge farm remembers

Tu Stultus Es

2010-08-09 07:59:58

#20

SamTheMan: +341|5534|Stoke, England

i thought you were gonna post all 1600 lol

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