America in REAL Color, 1939–1943 — 118 Kodachrome Photos (Not Colorized)

These are not colorized photos. Every image in this film was shot on Kodachrome color slide film between 1939 and 1943 by photographers of the U.S. Farm Security Administration and Office of War Information — Jack Delano, Marion Post Wolcott, Russell Lee, John Vachon, Arthur Rothstein, Louise Rosskam and others. Walk down Main Street in Lincoln, Nebraska, visit the 1941 Vermont State Fair, watch the peach harvest in Colorado, and spend a Saturday in a small Southern town — exactly as it looked more than 80 years ago, in its true colors. 118 photographs · 7 chapters · no narration, just calm piano music. Which photo is your favorite? Tell us its number in the comments 👇 Chapters: 0:00 Intro 0:11 Part I — Main Street 2:46 Part II — The County Fair 5:40 Part III — Harvest Time 8:43 Part IV — Saturday in Town 11:18 Part V — Faces of the 1940s 13:44 Part VI — Work and Industry 16:09 Part VII — Across the Land Photographs: Farm Security Administration / Office of War Information Color Photographs, Library of Congress Prints & Photographs Division (no known restrictions on publication). Music (public domain recordings): Chopin – Nocturnes (Musopen: Frank Lévy, Luke Faulkner); Satie – Gymnopédies (Michael Laucke). #history #oldphotos #1940s