# Color photos from the 1930's **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [August 14, 2016, 7:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/color-photos-from-the-1930s/762770 "2016-08-14T07:47:18Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 14\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![aceplace57](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aceplace57/32/3500_2.png) [@aceplace57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aceplace57)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2016, 7:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/color-photos-from-the-1930s/762770/1 "2016-08-14T07:47:18Z")
I love the photos of the old stores. The one with the little girl sitting outside is adorable. I’d guess her parents were inside shopping. > **[Rarely Seen Color Images of America Emerging From the Great Depression](https://slate.com/culture/2016/07/fsa-documentary-color-photos-featured-in-new-deal-photography-usa-1935-1943-from-taschen.html)** > > The Great Depression is perhaps best remembered through the photographs that came out of the Farm Security Administration. A vast majority of the... The chopping cotton photo lead me to some research. They are using a hoe to thin out the row. Keeping only the best plants. They come back weeks later to hoe and chop out the weeds. Lot of hard work. There’s other great articles here about life back then. I’ll be reading for awhile. 😃 [http://fridays-crossing.com/cotton-picking.php](http://fridays-crossing.com/cotton-picking.php) ---
**Author:** ![aceplace57](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aceplace57/32/3500_2.png) [@aceplace57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aceplace57)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2016, 7:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/color-photos-from-the-1930s/762770/2 "2016-08-14T07:51:02Z")
Btw, these are real color photos. NOT colorized B&W. I wonder if they were using Kodachrome? Was it available then? ---
**Author:** ![aceplace57](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aceplace57/32/3500_2.png) [@aceplace57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aceplace57)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2016, 7:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/color-photos-from-the-1930s/762770/3 "2016-08-14T07:53:24Z")
Whoops, yeah it was Kodachrome. It’s mentioned in the article. That’s why the colors are so rich and vibrant. ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2016, 12:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/color-photos-from-the-1930s/762770/4 "2016-08-14T12:50:21Z")
Everything looks worse in black and white. ---
**Author:** ![excavating\_for\_a\_mind](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/e8c25b/32.png) [@excavating\_for\_a\_mind](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/excavating_for_a_mind)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2016, 1:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/color-photos-from-the-1930s/762770/5 "2016-08-14T13:06:12Z")
[QUOTE=aceplace57;19553015s] I love the photos of the old stores. The one with the little girl sitting outside is adorable. I’d guess her parents were inside shopping. [FSA documentary color photos featured in New Deal Photography: USA 1935-1943 from Taschen.](http://www.slate.com/blogs/behold/2016/07/27/fsa_documentary_coloar_photos_featured_in_new_deal_photography_usa_1935.html)… [/QUOTE] All of these photos are from the 1940s ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2016, 1:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/color-photos-from-the-1930s/762770/6 "2016-08-14T13:18:11Z")
[Calvin’s dad explains it well.](http://calvin-and-hobbes-comic-strips.blogspot.com/2011/11/calvin-asks-dad-about-old-black-and.html) ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2016, 10:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/color-photos-from-the-1930s/762770/7 "2016-08-14T22:37:11Z")
> [@excavating\_for\_a\_mind](#): > > All of these photos are from the 1940s **Ace** is correct! The earliest years in the 40s actually were in the 30s, similar to the way 1901 is in the 20th century. You need to account for the earth tilting on its axis. Also explained tides. 0.9999999 = 1. /science ---
**Author:** ![cochrane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cochrane/32/10441_2.png) [@cochrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cochrane)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2016, 11:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/color-photos-from-the-1930s/762770/8 "2016-08-14T23:21:07Z")
[Color photography is actually more than 100 years old.](http://twistedsifter.com/2015/04/rare-color-photos-of-the-russian-empire-from-100-years-ago/) Those photos look like they were taken today. ---
**Author:** ![wolfman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/a8b319/32.png) [@wolfman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolfman)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2016, 11:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/color-photos-from-the-1930s/762770/9 "2016-08-14T23:36:24Z")
Something about the caption “A store with live fish for sale…” On a picture with three and a half signs proclaiming some version of live fish for sale makes the smartass in me snicker a whole bunch. ---
**Author:** ![Leaffan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/leaffan/32/299_2.png) [@Leaffan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaffan)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2016, 11:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/color-photos-from-the-1930s/762770/10 "2016-08-14T23:51:23Z")
> [@kayaker](#): > > Everything looks worse in black and white. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![aceplace57](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aceplace57/32/3500_2.png) [@aceplace57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aceplace57)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2016, 7:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/color-photos-from-the-1930s/762770/11 "2016-08-15T07:36:05Z")
I find myself wondering if those 4 boys in the 1943 school house photo are alive. What their lives were like. My mom is that same age and still alive. ---
**Author:** ![Cold\_Dish](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ce7236/32.png) [@Cold\_Dish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cold_Dish)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2016, 2:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/color-photos-from-the-1930s/762770/12 "2016-08-15T14:00:24Z")
People still chop cotton around here. ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2016, 5:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/color-photos-from-the-1930s/762770/13 "2016-08-15T17:29:10Z")
> [@wolfman](#): > > Something about the caption “A store with live fish for sale…” On a picture with three and a half signs proclaiming some version of live fish for sale makes the smartass in me snicker a whole bunch. I believe that those who caption photographs become smart asses themselves. ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2016, 7:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/color-photos-from-the-1930s/762770/14 "2016-08-15T19:26:40Z")
[Where N & Union SW would be today.](https://www.google.com/maps/place/N+St+SE,+Washington,+DC/@38.8746535,-77.0187822,3a,75y,356.52h,80.02t/data=!3m7!1e1!3m5!1sKt5SyhpfPMx5qqX1YTzrtA!2e0!6s%2F%2Fgeo1.ggpht.com%2Fcbk%3Fpanoid%3DKt5SyhpfPMx5qqX1YTzrtA%26output%3Dthumbnail%26cb_client%3Dmaps_sv.tactile.gps%26thumb%3D2%26w%3D203%26h%3D100%26yaw%3D80.284866%26pitch%3D0!7i13312!8i6656!4m5!3m4!1s0x89b7b9d6d36f1403:0xf6994fd6bf38dab7!8m2!3d38.8748943!4d-77.0035815)