John Hinderaker
Power Line
8/1/2010
In part, because we so often see it in black and white. But the world has, for some thousands of years at least, looked much as it does now. This morning I stumbled across this beautiful collection of color photographs, taken in the U.S. between 1939 and 1943. They belong to the Library of Congress and cover a broad spectrum, including rural, small town and industrial views…
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Connecticut town on the sea. Stonington, Connecticut, November 1940. Reproduction from color slide. Photo by Jack Delano. Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress
M-4 tank crews of the United States. Fort Knox, Kentucky, June 1942. Reproduction from color slide. Photo by Alfred T. Palmer. Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress
There are a lot of images; you can study them just about forever.
This collection of images of the Russian Empire was taken by a photographer named Prokudin-Gorskii between 1909 and 1915, before the twin catastrophes of the Great War and Lenin. In some respects they are more exotic, but still the color photos have a familiar look…
Photographer posing with two others; 1915 Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii Collection (Library of Congress).
The complete article is at Power Line.
