Main Street USA

[Angakuk]

Color photos from the late 30's and early 40's of small town main streets.

Main Street USA

[Ymir's blood]

The streets have been repaved and the clothing and cars are different (mostly) but a lot of towns around here look pretty similar. You have to go into the numerous antique stores or out in the country to see those soft drink signs however.

[livius drusus]

Here's the motherlode at the LoC: Farm Security Administration/Office of War Information Color Photographs. I like opening the first picture in the collection and then clicking the "next" link a couple of thousand times. This is why I have often spent entire lost weekends on the Library of Congress website. In fact, this weekend I spent a hefty chunk of two days clicking through the heart-wrenching pictures in the National Child Labor Committee Collection.

[Anastasia Beaverhausen]

Just last night I was looking up this: Early Kodachrome Images I'd seen it a while ago, it's a slice of America during the Depression.

[Janet]

There's a Pie Town, New Mexico in those pictures. I wonder if it lives up to its name. Yum, pie!

[davidm]

Stanley Kubrick photos of New York, 1940s

[davidm]

Here's more, probably all these are in the collection Liv linked, but these are a nice selection. More of that groovy Pie Town, too.

[Jerome]

Laundry, barbershop and stores, Washington, D.C. between 1941 and 1942