BS: Captured: America in Color from 1939-1943

Subject: BS: Captured: America in Color from 1939-194
From: JennieG
Date: 10 Aug 10 - 07:40 AM

Found this site while foofling away on the computer - the images are so evocative of a time not so long ago that has gone forever.

Cheers
JennieG

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From: artbrooks
Date: 10 Aug 10 - 08:07 AM

Need a clone with more letters available for thread titles to add a '3' to make it 1943.

Subject: RE: BS: Captured: America in Color from 1939-194
From: nickp
Date: 10 Aug 10 - 08:32 AM

They are great! Probably not so enjoyable then but wonderful to see a slice of history.

Subject: RE: BS: Captured: America in Color from 1939-194
From: GUEST,bankley
Date: 10 Aug 10 - 08:34 AM

fascinating

Subject: RE: BS: Captured: America in Color from 1939-194
From: number 6
Date: 10 Aug 10 - 08:39 AM

absolutely wonderful

Thanks for sharing these JennieG

biLLL

Subject: RE: BS: Captured: America in Color from 1939-194
From: Sandra in Sydney
Date: 10 Aug 10 - 10:19 AM

wow! They're art as well as social history.

Another set on the same page is equally amazing & inspiring

I sent both links to a heap of friends, including some artists & photographers.

sandra

Subject: RE: BS: Captured: America in Color from 1939-1943
From: Ebbie
Date: 10 Aug 10 - 11:41 AM

Wonderful. Thanks, JennieG.

And now I'm going to go look some more...

Subject: RE: BS: Captured: America in Color from 1939-1943
From: Ebbie
Date: 10 Aug 10 - 12:10 PM

Thanks, Sandra in Sydney- those photos too are fascinating.

My mother used to say that the worst part of living during the Great Depression was that one didn't know if things would ever improve, if perhaps that was what life was going to be forever.

Subject: RE: BS: Captured: America in Color from 1939-1943
From: gnu
Date: 10 Aug 10 - 02:50 PM

Ebbie... same with Mum... born in 26.

Subject: RE: BS: Captured: America in Color from 1939-1943
From: JennieG
Date: 11 Aug 10 - 01:56 AM

Thanks to Joe or the clone who fixed the title!

I have looked at Sandra's link too, I love old photographs.

Cheers
JennieG

Subject: RE: BS: Captured: America in Color from 1939-1943
From: Little Hawk
Date: 11 Aug 10 - 11:22 AM

What you had back then was a much leaner, tougher, harder working populace than now. And a lot more privation.

Subject: RE: BS: Captured: America in Color from 1939-1943
From: Allen in Oz
Date: 12 Aug 10 - 12:54 AM

JR

A wonderful record...photos do a journey that brings it all back home

AD

Subject: RE: BS: Captured: America in Color from 1939-1943
From: catspaw49
Date: 12 Aug 10 - 01:40 AM

geeziz........captivating/nostalgic/heartwarming/thought provoking................and about a hundred other things. Great links there too that I look forward to exploring.....Thanks Jennie and Sandra!!!

Spaw

Subject: RE: BS: Captured: America in Color from 1939-1943
From: Sandra in Sydney
Date: 12 Aug 10 - 02:29 AM

Museum of Sydney had a display recently - Skint! - on life in the depression

checkout the .pdf booklet 'Makeshifts - home-made furniture from kerosene cases' to see a whole heap of human ingenuity.