The color images come mostly from the early 40’s. Seemingly, they show an America that is at peace. The Second World War is still a year into the future. Carnival rides, children playing and quiet sedate neighborhoods. Norman Rockwell moments in color photo images.
However, these images are in stark contrast to the sad reality of those still outside the main stream of an improving economy. Those images appear here as well.
Images of Blacks in cotton fields and Whites struggling in the New Mexico desert punctuate the gallery. Grit and sadness lay beneath the veneer of most of these images. At the time these pictures were taken, evil took a firm grip of events in Europe.
However, from the people in these images came the Greatest Generation. It’s also a reminder that those that came before us continue to impact us some 80 years later.
The color images come mostly from the early 40’s. Seemingly, they show an America that is at peace. The Second World War is still a year into the future. Carnival rides, children playing and quiet sedate neighborhoods. Norman Rockwell moments in color photo images.
However, these images are in stark contrast to the sad reality of those still outside the main stream of an improving economy. Those images appear here as well.
Images of Blacks in cotton fields and Whites struggling in the New Mexico desert punctuate the gallery. Grit and sadness lay beneath the veneer of most of these images. At the time these pictures were taken, evil took a firm grip of events in Europe.
However, from the people in these images came the Greatest Generation. It’s also a reminder that those that came before us continue to impact us some 80 years later.
“In the 1930s one was aware of two great evils – mass unemployment and the threat of war.” James Meade
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