Incredible Color pictures from the 30's and 40's

[2112]

Super high quality, clashes with the black & white pictures I grew up looking at;


http://extras.denverpost.com/archive/captured.asp

 

[HHGT]

Very Cool.

 

[2112]

Shows how hard life was then. Notice all the kids with no shoes.

 

[Shelby#18]

Thats a great post. Thank you.

 

[fjpikul]

I think I recognized DBTGT in the okie photos.

 

[Triheart7]

Fabulous photos, I thought everything was in black and white in the 1940's.

Interesting expressions on the faces of the people.

I though the last picture of the guy with black soot on his face with a cigaret was interesting. I wonder when he died of mesothelioma?

 

[2112]

I though the last picture of the guy with black soot on his face with a cigaret was interesting. I wonder when he died of mesothelioma?

Couldn't have............the class action suit had not been developed yet.

 

[FENZO]

Shows how hard life was then. Notice all the kids with no shoes.

Not a lot of smiles in those photos.

Cool pics, thanks.

 

[twobjshelbys]

There are some remarkable photos here. The last one is outstanding. All of them are slides and I'm betting all are Kodachrome. What a remarkable film. The digitization and a little Photoshop work didn't hurt them any. I'm scanning all of my slides and negatives (a year+ project, some where around 30000 images) and smile each time I pull a roll of Kodachrome slides. I have some from the early 70s that look like they were taken yesterday. Ektachrome needs "help".

 

[dbackg]

Not many smiles. Hard times back then.

thank you for sharing.

 

[Neilda]

Very hard times back then and very different lives....... Over here we were at war, soon to be joined by the USA.

I wonder how the lives for the black cotton pickers were back then? Pretty grim I should imagine.

I find old photography quite fascinating. In the same way when you look at a painting from, say, the mid 1400's and know that it was painted from life (i.e. the subject was sitting in front of the painter).

Very interesting set of pictures. Thanks for the link.