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The following images were made by Farm Security Administration/Office of War Information photographers during World War II and are part of the famous FSA photography series that I have written about here. The color photographs–which were made in the first decade or so of the use of this new medium–represented only about 1,600 of the collection of 160,000 images in the FSA archive, and are far less known than their black-and-white complements, many of which are new iconic symbols for this period. The color images are beautiful works, and somehow seem to bring these historic images a little closer to the present.
A cross roads store, bar, “juke joint,” and gas station in the cotton plantation area, Melrose, La. Wolcott, Marion Post, 1910-1990, photographer, made in June 1940.
