Rare Color Photo's from the Great Depression Released

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http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1388179/Rare-Library-Congress-colour-photographs-Great-Depression.html

[Scottdau]

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It is kind of funny. When I see old black and white photo. I kinda forget they had color back then. . Sometimes I think they lived in black and white. Thanks for sharing those pictures. Those are really cool.

[Redskinsfan26]

It is kind of funny. When I see old black and white photo. I kinda forget they had color back then. . Sometimes I think they lived in black and white. Thanks for sharing those pictures. Those are really cool.

Holy **** I thought I was the only one

[PantherBeast_OS]

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Man very nice colors photos and all. I some time wonder what it would of been like to live back in those days. With the way the world is today. I wish sometime I could go back into these time periods and live. Yes times was hard back then and you had to work hard for what you got. Wheather it could been food, housing or anything. But it was much better back then. But very awsome photos tho. Gives you a real since of what it was llike back then. Very hard times but good aswell with friends and family.

[Evan_OS]

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It is kind of funny. When I see old black and white photo. I kinda forget they had color back then. . Sometimes I think they lived in black and white. Thanks for sharing those pictures. Those are really cool.

I always felt the same. Once when I was 5 or 6, I asked my grandmother if life was black and white when she was little and it changed over time.

[jfsolo]

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For me, seeing that time period in color brings those events fully into my awareness as having really happened. With the black and white images, I know intellectually that what I'm seeing is real, but it still has kind of a storybook and or fantasy quality to it.

Its like when I first saw someone in real life with a holocaust tattoo, it created an emotional resonance that no images could match.

Thanks for sharing these pictures.

[SqueakyD]

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Great photos. The most interesting to me are the WW2 war effort photos... It's fascinating seeing how the country was in a mindset of helping ration and build.

BTW, you guys mentioning the black and white world reminds me of this comic:

Spoiler

[bgeno]

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I was wondering why this thread had a feeling of deja vu...

Until I found this...

http://www.operationsports.com/forum...30s-1940s.html


lol... I don't think you can see the pics in the link anymore, but the similarity in threads is pretty crazy.

[Bamafan3723]

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Cool pics. The guy in the last picture looks like Joe Buck.

[Scottdau]

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I don't think black and white pictures paint a good picture as color do. If the depression or WW1 and 2 were in color I think I would get a better idea of what is happening. If that makes sense.

[FlyRice]

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It is kind of funny. When I see old black and white photo. I kinda forget they had color back then. . Sometimes I think they lived in black and white. Thanks for sharing those pictures. Those are really cool.

I get the same feeling when I see basketball games from the 70's and 80's. I have to remind myself that things didn't actually look grainy back then

I wonder how cool it would be if it were possible to see those classic games in full HD as if it were being broadcasted on today's stations.

[Scottdau]

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That is actually what I mean. It kinda is wild to think FDR or Hittler had color in them. I so use to seeing them in black and white. Or that dirt is the same color now that is was back in the great depression. I ask my dad that once. He told me the colors are the same that they are today. I know this is common sense, but I tend to forget that when I see black and white photo.

[p_rushing]

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I get the same feeling when I see basketball games from the 70's and 80's. I have to remind myself that things didn't actually look grainy back then

I wonder how cool it would be if it were possible to see those classic games in full HD as if it were being broadcasted on today's stations.

If they recorded the games on film, they actually could broadcast them in some HD format. They had plenty of cameras that could record it in the needed resolutions, but you couldn't broadcast it.

[acts238shaun]

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Cool pics. The guy in the last picture looks like Joe Buck.

Is that Napoleon Dynamite's mom, second from right?

[Scottdau]

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Lol good one. And man no smiles that is how you know they had a hard life.