Large Scale Central

Depression Era Pictures

General Discussion
#1

Have you guys seen any of these pictures? There are several that would be perfect to use for modeling…

http://blogs.denverpost.com/captured/2010/07/26/captured-america-in-color-from-1939-1943/

Jon.

#2

Thanks Jon.
Interesting photos.
The Asheville Citizen Times has a Historic Photo section. There are some RR photos scattered through out.
Ralph

http://www.citizen-times.com/apps/pbcs.dll/section?Category=PHOTO14

#3

Jon,

That’s quite impressive. We can’t even begin to model the grit and dirt.

#4

I have, so far, only looked at the 'photos from the Denver Post.

I find them captivating showing a world gone now for the most part but remembered by many in their youth. In looking at historical 'photos, particularly where railroads are concerned, I have gained a better insight into the railroads of yesteryear - mainly in the eras that I try to model.

Most views are explanatory but I am curious about the ‘dugout’ homes. Why were they partially below ground?

#5
Alan Lott said:
Most views are explanatory but I am curious about the 'dugout' homes. Why were they partially below ground?
for various reasons: less materials needed for building. cooler in summer. easyer to heat in winter. if on the plains - less shaken by winds.
#6

Al of these and far more at available at the Library of Congress, “American Memory” website:

http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/fsowhome.html

It’s searchable by subject or keyword.

There are a whole bunch of stunning photos, including Jack Delano’s fantastic railroad photos. The Library of Congress will also make you a print for a very low price, because there is no copyright fee to pay. They were already paid for back in 1942!

#7

This page linked from that http://blogs.denverpost.com/captured/2009/10/21/color-photography-from-russian-in-the-early-1900s/544/comment-page-7/#comment-41659

Denver Post said:
Captured: Color Photography from Russia in the Early 1900’s

Posted Oct 21, 2009
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The photographs of Russian chemist and photographer, Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii, show Russia on the eve of World War I and the coming of the revolution. From 1909-1912 and again in 1915, Prokudin-Gorskii travelled across the Russian Empire, documenting life, landscapes and the work of Russain people. His images were to be a photographic survey of the time. He travelled in a special train car transformed into a dark room to process his special process of creating color images, a technology that was in its infancy in the early 1900’s. Prokudin-Gorskii left Russia in 1918, after the Russian Revolution had destroyed the Empire he spent years documenting. To learn more about the Prokudin-Gorskii, the process he used to create the color photographs, and see his collection, you can visit the Library of Congress, who purchased his glass negatives in 1948 after his death in 1944.


Color in 1915?
1915???
1915???

Uh, yeah - turns out the oldest known surviving color photograph is from 1872.
http://www.worldisround.com/articles/2378/photo2.html

And people started experimenting with ways to take color photos in 1840 or so.

Wow! I had zero idea it went that far back!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Color_photography

Wikipedia said:
In 1898, however, it was possible for anyone with the price in hand to buy the required equipment and supplies ready-made. Two adequately red-sensitive photographic plates[6] were already on the market, and two very different systems of color photography with which to use them, tantalizingly described in photographic magazines for several years past, were finally available to the public.
#8

Photo #5, the Brockton Enterprise, notice the name of the business occupying three windows of the second floor… W.B. Mason & Co. is now a huge supplier in New England of paper & office supplies - their distinctive trucks are everywhere.

Nice link. Thanks!