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2009-03-23

Glimpse Back: Rare Color Photographs from the FSA-OWI  

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The best-known FSA photographs are in black and white. Less commonly seen are the color photos by FSA (Farm Security Administration) and OWI (Office of War Information) photographers, shot between 1939 and 1945.

Photo by John Vachon. Dr. Schreiber of San Augustine giving a typhoid inoculation at a rural school, San Augustine County, Texas, 1943.

Photo by Russell Lee. Jack Whinery and his family, homesteaders, Pie Town, New Mexico, 1940.

Photo by John Vachon. Workers leaving Pennsylvania shipyards, Beaumont, Texas, 1943.

Photo by Alfred T. Palmer. Woman machinist, Douglas Aircraft Company, Long Beach, California, 1942.

Photo by John Vachon. Boy near Cincinnati, Ohio, 1942 or 1943.

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