How incredible are these images? They were taken by photographers of the Farm Security Administration/Office of War Information and are some of the only colour photographs taken of the effects of the Depression on America’s rural and small town populations.
I wish I knew the story of the gloriously stern faced woman looking directly at the camera in the third image.
Woman is working on a “Vengeance” dive bomber Tennessee, February 1943. Photo by Alfred T. Palmer. 
Women workers employed as wipers in the roundhouse having lunch in their rest room, Chicago and Northwest Railway Company. Clinton, Iowa, April 1943. Photo by Jack Delano.
Distributing surplus commodities. St. Johns, Arizona, October 1940. Photo by Russell Lee.
Barker at the grounds at the state fair. Rutland, Vermont, September 1941. Photo by Jack Delano.
Photo by Worker at carbon black plant Sunray, Texas, 1942. Photo by John Vachon. All images are the property of the Library of Congress and were included in a 2006 exhibit Bound for Glory: America in Color.
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yes, powerful images all. but especially that last one.
sas Replied:
It’s kind of haunting isn’t it?