Turning Back the Clock in Pictures
The U.S. Library of Congress has just made public over 2000 vivid color images from the years 1939 through 1944. The subject matter of the photos encompasses aviation, railroad and technology workers from that period as well as farms, cityscapes and panoramas of the American west. Most of the photos made use of the Kodachrome process, now all but obsolete, resulting in high color saturation and detail. The pictures are in the public domain and can be viewed on Flickr.
The photos were taken by government photographers working for the United States Farm Security Administration (FSA) and later the Office of War Information (OWI)