The World has Always had Color (Who Knew?)
Fell in love with this set of color Depression-era photos today.
It’s cliche, but you really DO forget the world had color back then, if only from the absolute glut of stark black and white photography that represents that era. To see these brightly colored dresses and red lipstick is to realize just how much like us these people are. The world, basically, looks exactly the same if we don’t have that stripped-out layer of color to separate us.
Two particular favorites:
Women workers employed as wipers in the roundhouse having lunch in their rest room, Chicago and Northwest Railway Company. Clinton, Iowa, April 1943. Reproduction from color slide. Photo by Jack Delano. Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress
Mike Evans, a welder, at the rip tracks at Proviso yard of the Chicago and Northwest Railway Company. Chicago, Illinois, April 1943. Reproduction from color slide. Photo by Jack Delano. Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress
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