Color pictures from the Great Depression

[giza]

Here are two of storefronts that I especially liked:





There are 68 more pictures on the Denver Post. The photographs encompass everything from people to places to farms to train yards.

Looking at some of the pictures, it's pretty amazing to see how people lived back then. And all the advertising in the picture with the school children? Yeah, I don't think that'd go over too well today.

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[ionotter.livejournal.com]

It is so incredibly rare to see color photos from that time period, that I seriously felt NO connection to the people or the era. But seeing things in color, it almost seems unreal. Like I could suddenly understand my mother and my father in a way I've never felt before.

People back then didn't seem..."real". They were always ghosts in the pictures.

To see people eating, sleeping, working...in living color...

It's a shock to the system. Truly.

And a good one, too.