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Yvettep
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Username: Yvettep
Post Number: 1255
Registered: 01-2005
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Sunday, August 20, 2006 - 11:40 am: | 
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GREAT photographs--African American life in the 40s:
My favorite:
http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/boundforglory/images/bg0010.jpg
4th of July celebration
http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/boundforglory/images/bg0011.jpg
Going to town on a Saturday afternoon
http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/boundforglory/images/bg0012.jpg
African American migratory workers by a "juke joint"
http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/boundforglory/images/bg0050.jpg
African American boy
http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/boundforglory/images/bg0039.jpg
Woman is working on a "Vengeance" dive bomber http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/boundforglory/images/bg0064.jpg
Chopping cotton on rented land near White Plains
http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/boundforglory/images/bg0013.jpg
--and finally, for my favorite Chicago-land posters  :
General view of part of the South Water Street freight depot of the Illinois Central Railroad
http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/boundforglory/images/bg0060.jpg |
Mzuri
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Username: Mzuri
Post Number: 1385
Registered: 01-2006
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Sunday, August 20, 2006 - 02:59 pm: |
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Nice pix. Thanks for sharing |
Latina_wi
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Username: Latina_wi
Post Number: 27
Registered: 08-2006
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Sunday, August 20, 2006 - 03:19 pm: |
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Nice picture, showing a little piece of history. |
Cynique
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Username: Cynique
Post Number: 4954
Registered: 01-2004
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Sunday, August 20, 2006 - 06:03 pm: |
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I loved those pictures, Yvette! They really captured the essence of the era they represented and brought back some memories for me. I could almost hear the hiss and clang of the engines while looking at those Illinois central trains. That's the station we students from around Chicago would leave from when we headed downstate to the campus of the University of Illinois. And during WWII, my mother worked in a defense plant, and she wore an outfit just like the one that woman working on the air plane was wearing. Ahhhhh, nostalgia. |
Kola_boof
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Username: Kola_boof
Post Number: 3082
Registered: 02-2005
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Sunday, August 20, 2006 - 06:30 pm: |
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Yvette,
These are wonderful.
Do you have any photos of your own family from the 1930's and 40's?
My family has pictures of themselves in North Carolina, Tennessee, Georgia and Florida from the 1920's, 30's and 40's----and I love looking at them.
This is my favorite one of the photos, because
of course, they look like Africans.
I hope their children loved them
enough to bring them back into the
world.
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Renata
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Username: Renata
Post Number: 1221
Registered: 08-2005
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Sunday, August 20, 2006 - 07:07 pm: |
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Those are nice. My favorite is of the lady holding her daughter in her lap. |
Yvettep
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Username: Yvettep
Post Number: 1257
Registered: 01-2005
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Monday, August 21, 2006 - 01:14 pm: |
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Glad you enjoyed them everybody! I agree with you Renata--that's my favorite one of the bunch, too. The little girl looks like she's about to step right out of the photo and time and crawl on my lap.
Kola, I enjoy looking at my own family photos from that era. I keep saying at some point I am going to take on the job of archiving and possibly even digitizing many of these. This would be a HUGE undertaking, though. But it is so important, especially since within another two decades I will probably be the elder matriarch on both sides of my family, responsible for ensuring our history gets handed off safely to the next generation...
Thought you'd like those, Cynique! |
Yvettep
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Username: Yvettep
Post Number: 1258
Registered: 01-2005
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Monday, August 21, 2006 - 01:18 pm: |
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Also, Kola, did you notice the little child in the left background of the image you posted? I can't get her or him out of my mind, and wish there was a close up. I wonder: What is that child looking at? Thinking? I choose to imagine she or he grew up to be a kick-a** revolutionary who worked tirelessly for Black people, this day from the photograph (and likely, many others just like it) firmly in the back of her or his mind... |
Ntfs_encryption
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Username: Ntfs_encryption
Post Number: 610
Registered: 10-2005
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Monday, August 21, 2006 - 03:47 pm: |
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Thank you Yvettep. Those are wonderful pics. I enjoyed them thoroughly. I love vintage pictures depicting black life in America. In fact, I enjoy all photographs that portray early life in America. Especially pictures from the depression and Harlem Renaissance by Walker Evans, Dorothea Lange and James Van Der Zee. I have an extensive collection of photos by all three.
I noticed they were all colored photographs. Are they enactments are these authentic? Just curious…
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Yvettep
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Username: Yvettep
Post Number: 1260
Registered: 01-2005
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Monday, August 21, 2006 - 04:05 pm: |
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No, Ntfs--that's the interesting part. These are rare suriving photographs that were actually taken in early color. From the exhibit description:
Bound for Glory: America in Color is the first major exhibition of the little known color images taken by photographers of the Farm Security Administration/Office of War Information. These vivid scenes and portraits capture the effects of the Depression on America's rural and small town populations, the nation's subsequent economic recovery and industrial growth, and the country's great mobilization for World War II.
SInce you like this kind of thing, you should be interested in the entire exhibit--sorry, I neglected to post the main url before but here it is: http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/boundforglory/
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Ntfs_encryption
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Username: Ntfs_encryption
Post Number: 614
Registered: 10-2005
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Monday, August 21, 2006 - 07:05 pm: |
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"SInce you like this kind of thing, you should be interested in the entire exhibit--sorry, I neglected to post the main url before but here it is........"
Thank you very much. I'm on it! |
Yvettep
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Username: Yvettep
Post Number: 1279
Registered: 01-2005
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Friday, August 25, 2006 - 05:43 pm: |
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Glad you liked these. I just started a thread where I posted a link to some other rare photos I came across.
http://www.thumperscorner.com/discus/messages/179/15102.html?1156540664 |
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