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About the Farm Security WWII colour slides
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The images in the Farm Security Administration-Office of War Information Collection are among the most famous documentary photographs ever produced. Created by a group of U.S. government photographers, the images show Americans in every part of the nation. In the early years, the project emphasized rural life and the negative impact of the Great Depression, farm mechanization, and the Dust Bowl. In later years, the photographers turned their attention to the mobilization effort for World War II.
The FSA-OWI photographers also produced about 1600 color photographs during the latter days of the project. They can be searched at the Library of Congress through this page: http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/fsacquery.html
Fill in suitable search terms. For this collection I chose "Consolidated". You may wish to try something like "aircraft", "airplane", "aircraft industry" for a wider search. View the search result in "Gallery View" mode. Click in the thumbnail photo for a larger resolution, and click link in the new page for a still larger image. You may even download the full tiff originals (very heavy - weighs in at around 190 megabytes per photo!).
With only a few exceptions, captions here in the gallery are the originals from the collection at Library of Congress. If you wish to browse all 1616 colour slides, type "1944" without quotes as a search term (there may be other ways that work), and specify a maximum of 1700 search results. I have done it, and it's worth it, but you have to devote an entire night to the effort.
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