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Color Photos from the Great Depression

America in Color From 1939-43, from the Denver Post, is a collection of photos from the U.S. Farm Security Administration and Office of War Information. The color images come from small towns during the Great Depression and were part of a 2006 exhibit from the Library of Congress.

The family of Jack Whinery in Pie Town, New Mexico, 1940.

A boy in Cincinnati, Ohio in 1942 or 1943.

A square dance in McIntosh County, Oklahoma, in 1939 or 1940.

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