Dust, Drought, Depression, and War No. 191
Farm Security Administration/Office of War Information Color Photographs2
Photographers working for the U.S. government’s Farm Security Administration (FSA) and later the Office of War Information (OWI) between 1939 and 1944 made approximately 1,600 color photographs that depict life in the United States, including Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands. The pictures focus on rural areas and farm labor, as well as aspects of World War II mobilization, including factories, railroads, aviation training, and women working.
The original images are color transparencies ranging in size from 35 mm. to 4×5 inches. They complement the better-known black-and-white FSA/OWI photographs, made during the same period.
I first came across this photo in 2005. I cropped and digitally enhanced it on 11/26/2005 and posted it on an earlier blog—North Farnham Freeholder— on 12/13/2005.
Library of Congress Information for this photo:
Title: [Display of home-canned food]
Date Created/Published: [between 1941 and 1945]
Medium: 1 transparency : color.
Summary: Photo shows jars of yellow squash, peas, beets, and other vegetables.
Reproduction Number: LC-DIG-fsac-1a35476 (digital file from original transparency) LC-USW361-949 (color film copy slide)
Rights Advisory: No known restrictions on publication.
Call Number: LC-USW36-949 [P&P]
Repository: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA
Notes:
…..Transfer from U.S. Office of War Information, 1944.
…..General information about the FSA/OWI Color Photographs is available at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.fsac
…..Current, corrected title devised by Library staff from information provided by the source: Flickr Commons project, 2008.
…..Original title from FSA or OWI agency caption: Unidentified stacks of home-canned food.
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Mike’s notes:
Image restoration note – This image has been digitally adjusted for one or more of the following:
– fade correction,
– color, contrast, and/or saturation enhancement
– selected spot and/or scratch removal
– cropped for composition and/or to accentuate subject matter
– straighten image
Image restoration is the process of using digital restoration tools to create new digital versions of the images while also improving their quality and repairing damage.
- Each blog post in this project is an exploration of something from the almost 16 years between the crash of the stock market in 1929 and the end of World War 2 in 1985—no limits, no specific focus. The arc of the project will be the depression, the dust, the drought, and the war, but there were a lot of other aspects in the America of those times.
- “Farm Security Administration/Office of War Information Color Photographs – about This Collection.” Library of Congress. Accessed September 22, 2021. https://www.loc.gov/…fsac/.
