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"Captured: America in Color from 1939-1943" http://blogs.denverpost.com/captured/2010/07/26/captured-america-in-color-from-1939-1943/"These images, by photographers of the Farm Security Administration/Office of War Information, are some of the only color photographs taken of the effects of the Depression on America’s rural and small town populations" Many of you should recognize a number of those locations At the bottom are more links to old photos
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I've seen those pics before and they're really great. Some pics in Oklahoma are very close to where i grew up...some years later, anyway.
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Very cool photos of a very different time. 
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back when mothrfukrs wanted to work!
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Nice Pics and even some local scenes. Very cool!
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Great photos, thank you for posting. Those were hard times but a simpler time. Life today is too complicated and we are a very soft and fragile nation.
Mike
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Pictures 6 and 7....
I grew up in Brockton. Very cool.
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nice find..i passed it along.
thanks
If it isn't broke, I haven't messed with it.
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Very cool pics, thanks
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