USA Forties (Part 1)

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Here are collected 100 color photos of America of the forties of the last century, made by various authors. Basically there are 4x5 Kodachrome footage shot, but there are footage from 35-mm technology. Mainly in these frames I was impressed by the color.



1. 1940 | Main Street, Pie Town | Russell Lee



2. 1940 | At the Pie Town Fair | Russell Lee



3. 1940 | Serving the barbecue dinner at the Pie Town, New Mexico Fair. Pie Town is a community settled on 200 migrant Texas and Oklahoma farmers who filed homestead claims | Russell Lee



4. 1940 | Serving up the barbeque at the Pie Town, New Mexico, Fair | Russell Lee



5. 1940 | Saying grace before barbeque dinner at the Pie Town, New Mexico Fair | Russell Lee



6. 1940 | Homesteader at the Pie Town, New Mexico Fair | Russell Lee



7. 1940 | Men of the community of Pie Town, eating at the barbeque | Russell Lee



8. 1940 | Barbecue dinner at the Pine Town, New Mexico | Russell Lee



9. 1940 | Homesteaders Jim Norris and Pie Town, New Mexico | Russell Lee



10. 1940 | Faro and Doris Caudill, homesteaders, Pie Town, New Mexico. This picture was taken; she ended up homesteading in alaska | Russell Lee



11. 1940 | Church at Llano de San Juan, New Mexico | Russell Lee



12. 1940 | The Faro Caudill Family, Pie Town, New Mexico | Russell Lee



13. 1940 | General Merchandise store, Main Street, Pie Town, New Mexico | Russell Lee



14. 1940 | New York City hometown dugout home flooring dugout home | Russell Lee



15. 1940 | The Jack Whig family in their Pie Town dugout. Homesteader Whister, a licensed preacher, donates his services | Russell Lee



16. 1940 | Fun at the Delta County Fair in western Colorado | Russell Lee



17. 1940 | Pie Town schoolchildren in a community musical program | Russell Lee



18. 1942 | Street corner, Dillon, Montana | Russell Lee



19. 1942 | Madison County, Montana. Sheep Grazing the Gravelly Range at the foot of the Black Butte | Russell Lee



21. 1942 | The Little Belt Mountains. Lewis and Clark National Forest, Meagher County, Montana | Russell Lee



21. 1941 | On the Main Street of Cascade, Idaho | Russell Lee



22. 1940 | Delta County, Colorado. Hay stack and autumn of peach pickers | Russell Lee



23. 1941 | Summer of '41 | Russell Lee



24. 1943 | Santa Fe RR yard at night, Kansas City, Kansas | Jack delano



25. 1943 | The Santa Fe Yards at Argentine, Kansas | Jack delano



26. 1943 | Illinois Central RR freight cars at South Coast Street, Chicago | Jack delano



27. 1943 | Santa Fe streamliner super being being serviced by Albuquerque. Servicing these Diesel streamliners takes five minutes | Jack delano



28 | 1942th Street Shop, Chicago & Northwestern RR | Jack delano



29. 1942 | Roundhouse at the Chicago and Northwestern Railroad yard, Chicago | Jack delano



30. 1943 | Daniel Senise throwing a line in Indiana Harbor Belt Line railyard | Jack delano



31. 1940 | Children in the tenement district, Brockton, Massachusetts | Jack delano



32 | Women employed as roundhouse wipers having lunch, Chicago & North Western Railroad, Clinton, Iowa | Jack delano



33 | Chicago & North Western railyard, Chicago | Jack delano



34. 1943 | The Coast from the Corwith yard in Chicago | Jack delano



35. 1943 | Coal and sand chutes at the Argentine Yard, Santa Fe RR, Kansas City, Kansas | Jack delano



36 | Locomotives over the ash pit at the roundhouse and coaling station of the Chicago & North Western Railroad yards | Jack delano



37 | A young worker at the Chicago & North Western 1942th Street shops | Jack delano



38 | A winter afternoon in the North Proviso yardmaster's office, Chicago & North Western Railroad | Jack delano



39. 1943 | Yardmaster at Amarillo, Texas, railyard | Jack delano



40 | Viola Sievers, one of the wipers at the Chicago & North Western roundhouse, giving a giant "H" class locomotive a bath of live
steam at Clinton, Iowa | Jack delano



41. 1943 | Santa Fe RR shops, Albuquerque. Hammering out the draw drop on the blacksmith shop | Jack delano



42. 1943 | Freight depot of the army consolidating station at Chicago | Jack delano



43. 1941 | Street in San Juan, Puerto Rico | Jack delano



44. 1943 | Amarillo, Texas. Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe Railroad | Jack delano



45. 1943 | Westbound Train to Pass | Jack delano



46. 1941 | Home Security in Puerto Rico | Jack delano



47. 1941 | At the state fair in Rutland, Vermont | Jack delano



48 | Three West Coast streamliners in the Chicago & North Western yards at Chicago | Jack delano



49. 1940 | Burning autumn leaves along Broadway in Norwich, Connecticut | Jack delano



50. 1941 | Lowell, Mass. Commuters who want to go to go home | Jack delano
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  1. +7
    6 August 2012 09: 14
    The quality is super! Thanks, it was very interesting.
  2. ... in motu
    +16
    6 August 2012 09: 16
    Wow! The selection is great. And most importantly - living people, not plans for world domination.
    1. +3
      6 August 2012 17: 03
      ... in motu
      Alexander Did you mean this?
  3. biglow
    +16
    6 August 2012 09: 20
    how people have changed over 60 years, No complacency in the eyes, ordinary hard workers.
    1. +3
      6 August 2012 11: 05
      Of course, in the photo are ordinary hard workers ... There is no establishment in the photo ...
    2. +3
      6 August 2012 12: 29
      One photo of Truman is enough to break the idyll ... Hiroshima, Nagasaki ... there are tough people behind the scenes.
  4. +8
    6 August 2012 09: 32
    photo on which the family at the table - not rich, but with forks and knives, everything is cultural)))
    1. +1
      6 August 2012 10: 26
      Because emigrants from Europe are in the first generation. Not fumbled yet! laughing
  5. MC
    MC
    +4
    6 August 2012 09: 32
    Yes, the quality is excellent !!! Ordinary people, than our today's villages reminds ...
  6. +5
    6 August 2012 09: 37
    Until the end of 50, and in many places up to the 60s, hard workers from industrial quarters and miners in them and in England saw hot water once a week at best ... where can complacency come from ...
    Photos are cool! Living people, simple open faces, not like now. Some show off.
  7. DNA
    DNA
    +3
    6 August 2012 09: 40
    Yes, the pictures are excellent, and most importantly what is the difference between modernity, well, heaven and earth are straight. The working class and farmers are shown, and now find this in the USA.
  8. Gur
    +7
    6 August 2012 10: 07
    Why komenty in Russian then ???, it was necessary as well as komenty under the photo in English and write everything. Now to the photo: - Yes, the photographs of the villagers strongly resemble ours, the same fatigue in the eyes, and the children, like ours, after the war, have not yet become fat on the burgers, and not yet lazy with love by human rights activists, dressed in plain satin. In general, labor, even then, America.
  9. +3
    6 August 2012 10: 07
    I caught myself thinking that among them could be my grandfather and he would not differ from them. The same simple face working hands are not a rich but friendly family and five six children. Can it be that people themselves have changed in just half a century? Swagger, greed, unjustifiable sense of superiority, etc. And this can be said not only about the Americans but also about us.
    Threat. These people do not dare to call the language ami it is the Americans.
  10. DUTCH
    +6
    6 August 2012 10: 12
    Great pictures !!! What is the contrast of life compared to our photographs of the 40s (((((
  11. +2
    6 August 2012 10: 39
    biglow,
    +100500
    But in fairness, we must admit that we did not become better, which is sad
  12. borisst64
    +4
    6 August 2012 11: 10
    Great pictures! And not a single Negro !! In the states, the author would be sued!
  13. bagira
    +14
    6 August 2012 11: 31
    Only half a century later:





  14. +3
    6 August 2012 12: 43
    Good photos, just need to translate the captions under the pics, not everyone knows English, and it’s tiresome to put the captions in the translator every time.
  15. +1
    6 August 2012 13: 59
    A completely different feeling from photos in color, 40-e acquire a completely different volume and become closer
  16. 0
    6 August 2012 14: 12
    EXCELLENT illustrations for Jack Kerouac's novel "On the Road". !!!
  17. sribnuu
    -2
    6 August 2012 16: 29
    What is in the USA in the 40s is in us now!
    1. 0
      6 August 2012 16: 56
      if only ............ it would be nice, honest faces of hard workers .............. nothing to be ashamed of
  18. Lakkuchu
    +2
    6 August 2012 17: 36
    Thanks for the interesting selection. I like to look at old photos. They have a special atmosphere, warmer, it is just like the old American and Soviet films, they have more sincerity, kindness. These are the hard workers who built America.
  19. Argonaut
    +2
    6 August 2012 18: 21
    In the photographs are hard workers, and above, in power, are parasites and cannibals.
  20. prispek
    0
    6 August 2012 22: 55
    Good selection. Simple, working people. And most importantly - a lot of children. How quickly everything is lost. It is a pity that we have the same. (Prohibit cinema and television)
  21. 0
    7 August 2012 01: 10
    After black and white films and photographs of those times - it's like photographs of another planet. Their black and white counterparts wind the bogeyman.

    Color photographs of the USSR, with the exception of photographs from the occupied territories, are hard to find. Unless the photographs were authored by Prokudin-Gorsky - only this is not the USSR and they are one hundred years old ...
  22. wolverine7778
    0
    7 August 2012 07: 52
    The quality is excellent. And across the ocean, meanwhile, everything was not so peaceful.
    Jeans and denim overalls have not yet become fashionable - just work and casual clothes wink
  23. 0
    7 August 2012 19: 16
    Both the people in the photographs and the subjects themselves are interesting. And it can be seen that even ordinary workers lived in greater prosperity "over the hill" than in the USSR.
  24. yurasumy
    +1
    7 August 2012 21: 18
    I will share my impressions.
    Impression 1. Not a single fat. Unless with a stretch (well-fed).
    Impression 2. Not a single Negro (sorry African American). Even in the background (As if they weren’t).
    Impression 3. There are no signs of "divine chosenness" on the faces. Apparently then they did not know about it yet. Ordinary hard workers like you and me.
    Impression 4. Maybe it seemed to me, but the remnants of collectivism in the community are visible. Now they have been etched.
    Impression 5. They live "well" at that time. There are many cars, even in the village. Apparently this is no longer a luxury.
  25. BARADA
    0
    7 August 2012 21: 59
    THE CLASS HAVE FOR A LONG TIME ASKED TO LOOK IN COLOR THE STATES OF THE MIDDLE OF 20V ........ THANKS GREAT ......... AND THE USSR IS SORRY FORGOTTEN IT IS ALSO INTERESTING
  26. Dmitry 77
    +1
    7 August 2012 23: 44
    Not a single political Negro is politically correct
  27. Chern
    +1
    9 August 2012 19: 05
    Erysipelas are proletarian, but somehow not unusually drunk.
    And the photo is simply incredibly high quality.
    Dimensionless respect compilation.
  28. bamboo
    0
    11 August 2012 12: 35
    Thanks for the interesting selection. I like to look at old photos. They have a special atmosphere, warmer, it is just like the old American and Soviet films, they have more sincerity, kindness. These are the hard workers who built America.
  29. 0
    11 August 2012 15: 22
    magnificent photos of magnificent people, the very atmosphere of time, place and, moreover, emotionally authentic is conveyed.
    This people had a great future.

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