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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
Mountain farms along the Skyline Drive in Virginia
Field of a mountain farm along the Skyline Drive in Virginia
Mountain farm along Skyline Drive, Va.
Mountain farm along Skyline Drive, Va.
Copper mining and sulfuric acid plant, Copperhill, Tenn.
Copper mining and sulfuric acid plant, Copperhill, Tenn.
A train bringing copper ore out of the mines, Ducktown, Tenn. Fumes from smelting copper for sulfuric acid have destroyed all vegetation and eroded the land
Copper mining and sulfuric acid plant, Copperhill, Tenn.
Copper mining and sulfuric acid plant, Copperhill, Tenn.
A train bringing copper ore out of the mine, Ducktown, Tenn. Fumes from smelting copper for sulfuric acid have destroyed all vegetation and eroded the land
Copper mining and sulfuric acid plant, Copperhill, Tenn.
Copper mining section between Ducktown and Copperhill, Tennessee. Fumes from smelting copper for sulfuric acid have destroyed all vegetation and eroded the land
Copper mining section between Ducktown and Copperhill, Tennessee. Fumes from smelting copper for sulfuric acid have destroyed all vegetation and eroded the land
Bayou Bourbeau plantation, a Farm Security Administration cooperative, vicinity of Natchitoches, La. Three children sitting on the porch of a house
tenant's home beside the Mississippi River levee, near Lake Providence, La.
Farm in southern U.S. ... Louisiana?
tenant's home beside the Mississippi River levee, near Lake Providence, La.
Boys fishing in a bayou, Schriever, La. Cajun children in a bayou near the school. Terrebonne, a Farm Security Administration project
Clothes of swimmers hanging on a telegraph pole, Lake Providence, La. The children from the nearby farms and neighborhoods go swimming, on Saturday afternoon and Sunday, in the lake
Southern U.S. ... Louisiana?
An old tenant house with a mud chimney and cotton growing up to its door, which is occupied by Mulattoes, Melrose, La.
An old house almost hidden by sunflowers, Rodney, Miss.
Backyard of tenant's home, Marcella Plantation, Mileston, Miss. Delta