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Photographers working for the U.S. government's Farm Security Administration (FSA) and later the Office of War Information (OWI) between 1939 and 1944 made approximately 1,600 color photographs that depict life in the United States, including Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands. The pictures focus on rural areas and farm labor, as well as aspects of World War II mobilization, including factories, railroads, aviation training, and women working. The original images are color transparencies ranging in size from 35 mm. to 4x5 inches. They complement the better-known black-and-white FSA/OWI photographs, made during the same period [view information about the black-and-white FSA/OWI photographs]. The Library of Congress is sharing the FSA/OWI Color Photographs on Flickr, where Flickr community members add comments, notes, and tags. [View FSA/OWI Color Photographs on Flickr | View more information about this project].
Images displayed at the top: 1) Cutting Burley tobacco and putting it on sticks to wilt ... vicinity of Lexington, Ky. Detail. LC-USF351-164. 2) Drilling on a Liberator Bomber, Consolidated Aircraft Corp., Fort Worth, Texas. LC-USW361-434. Links to external Internet sites on Library of Congress Web pages do not constitute the Library's endorsement of the content of their Web sites or of their policies or products. Please read our Standard Disclaimer. [START OVER] [ NEW SEARCH] [ HELP] The Library of Congress >> Prints & Photographs Division >> Prints & Photographs Online Catalog February 14, 2008 |