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BS: Captured: America in Color from 1939-1943

10 Aug 10 - 07:40 AM (#2961892)
Subject: BS: Captured: America in Color from 1939-194
From: JennieG

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


10 Aug 10 - 08:07 AM (#2961916)
Subject: RE: BS: Captured: America in Color from 1939-194
From: artbrooks

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


10 Aug 10 - 08:32 AM (#2961937)
Subject: RE: BS: Captured: America in Color from 1939-194
From: nickp

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


10 Aug 10 - 08:34 AM (#2961939)
Subject: RE: BS: Captured: America in Color from 1939-194
From: GUEST,bankley

fascinating


10 Aug 10 - 08:39 AM (#2961945)
Subject: RE: BS: Captured: America in Color from 1939-194
From: number 6

absolutely wonderful

Thanks for sharing these JennieG

biLLL


10 Aug 10 - 10:19 AM (#2962006)
Subject: RE: BS: Captured: America in Color from 1939-194
From: Sandra in Sydney

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


10 Aug 10 - 11:41 AM (#2962065)
Subject: RE: BS: Captured: America in Color from 1939-1943
From: Ebbie

Wonderful. Thanks, JennieG.

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


10 Aug 10 - 12:10 PM (#2962094)
Subject: RE: BS: Captured: America in Color from 1939-1943
From: Ebbie

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.


10 Aug 10 - 02:50 PM (#2962268)
Subject: RE: BS: Captured: America in Color from 1939-1943
From: gnu

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


11 Aug 10 - 01:56 AM (#2962596)
Subject: RE: BS: Captured: America in Color from 1939-1943
From: JennieG

Thanks to Joe or the clone who fixed the title!

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

Cheers
JennieG


11 Aug 10 - 11:22 AM (#2962889)
Subject: RE: BS: Captured: America in Color from 1939-1943
From: Little Hawk

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


12 Aug 10 - 12:54 AM (#2963389)
Subject: RE: BS: Captured: America in Color from 1939-1943
From: Allen in Oz

JR

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

AD


12 Aug 10 - 01:40 AM (#2963395)
Subject: RE: BS: Captured: America in Color from 1939-1943
From: catspaw49

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


12 Aug 10 - 02:29 AM (#2963407)
Subject: RE: BS: Captured: America in Color from 1939-1943
From: Sandra in Sydney

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.