{"id":31149,"date":"2012-01-29T01:53:01","date_gmt":"2012-01-29T09:53:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/?p=31149"},"modified":"2012-01-29T06:06:23","modified_gmt":"2012-01-29T14:06:23","slug":"homefront-in-color","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/archives\/31149","title":{"rendered":"Homefront in color"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/B\/FSA_001.jpg\" width=\"425\"><\/p>\n<p><em>&#8216;Between 1939 and 1944, the OWI and the Farm Security Administration made thousands of photographs, approximately 1,600 of them in color&#8217;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Despite what <a href=\"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/archives\/7474\">my dad<\/a> told me, the 1930s and 40s were actually in color.<\/p>\n<p>More pics <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ibtimes.com\/articles\/148072\/20110518\/rare-color-photos-depression-era.htm\" target=\"_blank\">here,<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ibtimes.com\/articles\/148458\/20110519\/rare-color-photos-from-depression-era-part-2.htm\" target=\"_blank\">here,<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/infocus\/2011\/08\/world-war-ii-the-american-home-front-in-color\/100122\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bitrebels.com\/lifestyle\/photography-rare-photos-of-the-great-depression\/\" target=\"_blank\">here.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/B\/FSA_007.jpg\" width=\"425\"><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/B\/FSA_0015.jpg\" width=\"425\"><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/B\/FSA_023.jpg\" width=\"425\"><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/B\/FSA_0014.jpg\" width=\"425\"><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/B\/FSA_0016.jpg\" width=\"425\"><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/B\/FSA_009.jpg\" width=\"425\"><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/B\/FSA_0011.jpg\" width=\"425\"><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/B\/FSA_0013.jpg\" width=\"425\"><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/B\/FSA_0017.jpg\" width=\"425\"><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/B\/FSA_0018.jpg\" width=\"425\"><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/B\/FSA_0019.jpg\" width=\"425\"><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/B\/FSA_0020.jpg\" width=\"425\"><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/B\/FSA_0022.jpg\" width=\"425\"><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/B\/FSA_0012.jpg\" width=\"425\"><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/B\/FSA_0021.jpg\" width=\"425\"><\/p>\n\r\n\t<div style=\"float: left; \">\r\n\t\t<a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/share\" class=\"twitter-share-button\" data-count=\"horizontal\" data-text=\"Homefront in color\" data-url=\"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/archives\/31149\"  data-via=\"mehallo\">Tweet<\/a>\r\n\t<\/div>\r\n\t<script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"http:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\"><\/script>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8216;Between 1939 and 1944, the OWI and the Farm Security Administration made thousands of photographs, approximately 1,600 of them in color&#8217; Despite what my dad told me, the 1930s and 40s were actually in color. More pics here, here, here and here. 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