Rare color photos: Kids in the 1940s
The Library of Congress continues to post striking color images from its archives of the United States Farm Security Administration (FSA) and the Office of War Information (OWI), whose photographers created a compelling document of America between 1939 and 1944.
The FSA/OWI pictures capture life in the U.S. (as well as Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands) at a time when the nation was evolving from the Depression Era to war mobilization.
Because some of the caption information for the pictures' subjects is sometimes incomplete, the Library invites viewers to send in their comments and, if possible, identifying information.
For more on the Library's collection visit loc.gov.
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Girl with doll standing by fence
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Children with adult in the tenement district, Brockton, Massachusetts.
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At the Vermont state fair, Rutland.
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Boy beside store window display of Christmas ornaments.
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Children in a company housing settlement, Puerto Rico.
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Homesteader feeding his daughter at the Pie Town, New Mexico Fair free barbeque.
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Jack Whinery and his family, homesteaders, Pie Town, New Mexico.
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At the Vermont state fair, Rutland.
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Homesteaders, Pie Town, New Mexico.
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Boys sitting on truck parked at the FSA labor camp, Robston, Tex.
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At Beecher Street School, whose student body consists of half Americans of Italian descent and half of Americans of Polish descent, Southington, Conn. The Queen of the May was Emily Schwak, of Polish extraction; the King, Philip D'Agostino, of Italian.
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Child of a migratory farm laborer in the field during the harvest of the community center's cabbage crop, FSA labor camp, Tex.
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Bayou Bourbeau plantation, a Farm Security Administration cooperative, vicinity of Natchitoches, La.
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Boy building a model airplane as girl watches, FSA ... camp, Robstown, Tex.
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Two little girls in a park near Union Station, Washington, D.C.
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A little girl in a park near Union Station, Washington, D.C.
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Dr. Schreiber of San Augustine giving a typhoid inoculation at a rural school, San Augustine County, Texas.
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Children from a rural school, San Augustine County, Texas.
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A little girl from a rural school, San Augustine County, Texas.
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Children from a rural school, San Augustine County, Texas.
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Children from a rural school, San Augustine County, Texas.
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Children stage a patriotic demonstration, Southington, Conn.
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Children stage a patriotic demonstration, Southington, Conn.
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Children gathering potatoes on a large farm, vicinity of Caribou, Aroostook County, Me. Schools do not open until the potatoes are harvested.
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Boys fishing in a bayou, Schriever, La.
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Delta County Fair, Colorado.
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Children asleep on bed during square dance, McIntosh County, Okla.
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School children singing, Pie Town, New Mexico.
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School children singing, Pie Town, New Mexico.
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School children singing, Pie Town, New Mexico.
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A little girl in a park near Union Station, Washington, D.C.
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Children from a rural school, San Augustine County, Texas.
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