Hay stack and automobile of peach pickers. Delta County, Colorado, 1940.
Reproduction from color slide. Photo by Russell Lee. Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress
Reproduction from color slide. Photo by Russell Lee. Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress
These images, by photographers of the Farm Security Administration/Office of War Information, are some of the only color photographs taken of the effects of the Depression on America’s rural and small town populations. The photographs are the property of the Library of Congress and were included in a 2006 exhibit Bound for Glory: America in Color.
