Thursday, May 19, 2011

Rare Color Photographs of the Depression Era

From The Daily Mail:

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Part of the South Water Street freight depot of the Illinois Central Railroad in Chicago, Illinois, May 1943

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Having a chat: Women workers employed as wipers in the roundhouse having lunch in their rest room at the Chicago and Northwest Railway Company in Clinton, Iowa, April 1943

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Like a hobbit house: Garden adjacent to the dugout home of homesteader Jack Whinery, in Pie Town, New Mexico, September 1940

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The Faro Caudill family eating dinner in their dugout in Pie Town, New Mexico, October 1940

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Mike Evans, a welder, at the rip tracks at Proviso yard of the Chicago and Northwest Railway Company, in Chicago, Illinois, April 1943.

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Boys hauling crates of peaches from the orchard to the shipping shed in Delta County, Colorado, September 1940

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Shasta dam under construction in California, June 1942

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Facing life head on: Jack Whinery, homesteader, and his family in Pie Town, New Mexico, October 1940

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