Style Fridays: American Color Slides and Photographs from the Thirties and Forties

Homesteaders, Pie Town, New Mexico, October 1940.

Going to town, Greene County, Georgia, May 1941.


M-4 tank crews, Fort Knox, Kentucky, June 1942.

Woman working on a "Vengeance" dive bomber, February 1943.

These superb photographs from the Libray of Congress, which chronicle the effects of the Depression and World War II on rural America, were included in a 2006 exhibit called Bound for Glory: America in Color. For more images from this collection, click here.

Happy weekend!