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Collection: 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
606 photos
Carr Fork Canyon as seen from "G" bridge, Bingham Copper Mine, Utah
Open-pit workings of the Utah Copper Company, Bingham Canyon, Utah. This is the Carr Fork side from which the company obtains huge amounts of ore. The Carr Fork bridge and main shops appear in the foreground
View of the Utah Copper Company open-pit mine workings at Carr Fork, as seen from the railroad, Bingham Canyon, Utah
American Smelting and Refining, Garfield, Utah
Willow Creek, Creede, Colorado
Old lead mines here have been reopened, Creede, Colo. Creede for many years was "a ghost town," but has resumed the activities that made it an important lead producing center years ago, and is now producing much vitally needed metal for the war effort
Main Street, Creede, Colorado
View along US 40 in Mount Vernon Canyon, Colorado
Garage mechanic near Newark, N.J. Badge denotes member of Office of Defense Transportation
Camouflage class in New York University, where men and women are preparing for jobs in the Army or in industry, New York, N.Y. They make models from aerial photographs, re-photograph them, then work out a camouflage scheme and make a final photograph
United Nations exhibit by OWI in Rockefeller Plaza, New York, N.Y. View of entrance from 5th Avenue
United Nations exhibit by OWI in Rockefeller Plaza, New York, N.Y. View of entrance from 5th Avenue
United Nations exhibit by OWI at Rockefeller Plaza, New York, N.Y. Close-up of photographic display and seals of the nations
Columbus Fountain and statue in front of Union Station, Washington, D.C.
U.S. Supreme Court building, Washington, D.C.
U.S. Supreme Court Building, Washington, D.C.
Building of the Department of Health, Education and Welfare, Washington, D.C.
Two little girls in a park near Union Station, Washington, D.C.
Little girl in a park near Union Station, Washington, D.C.
Little girl in a park with Union Station in the background, Washington, D.C.
Memorial Bridge, looking from the Virginia side of the Potomac River across to the Lincoln Memorial, Washington, D.C.
War Department Building at 21st and Virginia Avenue, N.W., Washington, D.C.
A soldier and a woman in a park, with the Old Russell Senate Office Building behind them, Washington, D.C.