To those of us who didn't live through it, the Great Depression is a period that evokes little more than a handful of iconic, black and white images. Often haunting, sometimes beautiful, those images are twice removed from us - once by the passage of time, and again by the absence of color.
That's one reason I'm so taken with this collection of images captured on behalf of the Farm Security Administration and the Office of War Information. Taken during the the late 1930s and early 1940s, these photographs document Depression-Era life as people really experienced it: in color. Check it out.
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