McIntosh County, Oklahoma 1939/1940 (Russell Lee, Library of Congress)
Colour photographs of a Square Dance, Oklahoma, 1940
If you like this, check out:
Colour footage of Deauville, 1912
Colour photographs of New York City, 1941
'First colour video', 1958
Colour hi-res photographs of London, 1950s
Colour photographs of America, 1939-1943
Colour photographs of Egypt, 1920s
Bathing Parades c. 1920s
Colour photographs of New York, 1940s, by Charles Cushman
Blackfoot Decorated Tipis c.1900
Cape Coast, Ghana, 1940s
Women's Roller Derby, 1948
Norman E. Timbs Buick Streamliner, 1948
Colour photographs, WWI
Colourised Photographs of Moscow, 1931
Harlem Street Scenes, 1939, by Sid Grossman
New York, 1940s, by Stanley Kubrick
Pablo Picasso wearing a cow's head mask on beach, 1949
High School Ball, 1945
Bohn's 'Visions of the Future' Ads, 1940s
Reconstructing the White House, 1948-1952
Television Taboos, 1949
someone just linked me to this…these and loads of other really amazing shots…thought you’d like to know.
http://blogs.denverpost.com/captured/2010/07/26/captured-america-in-color-from-1939-1943/
some really fantastic shots in here.
the kids look SOOOOO bored!! lol “Mooooom…when can we go home?” I wonder if later on, these dances were part of their best memories of their folks…
Sometimes I wish they did more of this nowadays….