A black-and-white image would seem to be the perfect medium to capture the devastating conditions in America during the Depression. No one can forget such remarkable snapshots as Dorothea Lange's photograph of a 32-year-old farmworker and her two children, popularly known as "Migrant Mother," or Fiddlin' Bill Henseley, of Asheville, N.C.

Less well known but equally compelling color images were also shot by the photographers of the Farm Security Administration and the Office of War Information during the same period. Now, the first major exhibition of these images is on view in the Library's Jefferson Building through Nov. 26.

If you can't travel to Washington to see the exhibition titled "Bound for Glory: America In Color 1939-43," you can view them online in the American Memory presentation called "America from the Great Depression to World War II." There, 1,600 color photographs from this singular period in American history await your perusal.