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Some early color photos 1940 across the USA

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Some early color photos 1940 across the USA

Here is a photo blog of some early color photos from across the USA

These Photos are from the Library of Congress.
 
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Thanks Karson, They made me reflect on my Grandfathers time. Of coarse serving America in WWII during that time but also cutting Ash props for the mines in NE Pennsylvania. One thing that looks the same from then till now - That fat old Sun in the sky.
 
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GMman Is the old train station still there. It looks like a cool building.

Caribou was in picture 4 and 5.

Thanks everyone for the comments.
 
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It's easy to forget the past was in color.

You might very well have found a young George and Rosie Nell Johnston, my paternal grandparents, at one of those square dances in Oklahoma, and my dad and his brother and sister might have been among those kids asleep on the bed.
 
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I was thinking about those photos and wondering if the school pictures and others have ever been matched up with them selves or their children.

It would be great to see those potato picker children in later life and their families.
 
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Although I'm not old enough to comepletly understand what people went through back then (I'm 44) , those pics really touched me. I looked at alot of them in great detail and was amazed at the suffering you could see in their eyes and yet they still had a certain dignity about them. I wonder if our new generation is willing to work as hard as they were willing too. Very touching, thx for sharing.
 
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