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Astounding Full Color Photos of America 1939 – 1943

On the Denver Post photo blog there are 70 photos from all around the USA in full color. Each documenting an aspect of American life during the depression and wartime.

These images, by photographers of the Farm Security Administration/Office of War Information, are some of the only color photographs taken of the effects of the Depression on America’s rural and small town populations. The photographs are the property of the Library of Congress and were included in a 2006 exhibit Bound for Glory: America in Color.

We’ve dropped a few other photos under the cut. View all 70, at full size, at the Denver Post site.
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Found: First Depiction of Laptop in 1937 Flash Gordon Comic

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Look there! That thing in the pawn of Ming’s hand. Could that be…a laptop as conceived by 1937artist Alex Raymond?

A snippet of the Science Fiction Observer‘s report lay below:

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America in the 1930’s in COLOR

The Internet is all about thoughts and memes coming round again. This sampling of color photos on the USA in the 1930s recently popped up in my FriendFeed. A little digging and it is discovered that Daily Kos focused on this first back in 2006.

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(via nonewbs, friendfeed, and daily kos)

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