FSA/OWI Color Transparencies

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

Commuters, who have just come off the train, waiting for the bus to go home, Lowell, Mass.

Commuters, who have just come off the train, waiting for the bus to go home, Lowell, Mass.

Factory buildings in Lowell, Mass.

Factory buildings in Lowell, Mass.

Brockton, Mass., Dec. 1940, second-hand plumbing store

Brockton, Mass., Dec. 1940, second-hand plumbing store

Headlines posted in street-corner window of newspaper office (Brockton Enterprise) ... Brockton, Mass.

Headlines posted in street-corner window of newspaper office (Brockton Enterprise) ... Brockton, Mass.

Children in the tenement district, Brockton, Mass.

Children in the tenement district, Brockton, Mass.

Detail of industrial building in Massachusetts

Detail of industrial building in Massachusetts

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FSA/OWI Color Transparencies