Amazing color photos from the 1940's
Meredith Scheff — Mon, 04/27/2009 - 13:05

I've been spending the last couple hours flicking through this goregeous set on Flickr. It's been uploaded by the Library of Congress and is comprised of about 2000 images from the 1940's- in color. They're beautiful and entrancing- they range in subject from urban sprawl to wild west; from farmer to rosie-the-riveter types. Most of them are Kodachrome proccess, giving the colors that special detailed saturation that only that proccess could acheive. I can't get enough of it. Best: no copyright. Worst: idiots putting 10 million comment boxes on everything.
Just as an interesting side note: there is only one place in the US still proccessing kodachrome.
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Shorpy
Procrasticus — Tue, 06/02/2009 - 19:15It's a bit late to be commenting on this post, I think, but nonetheless I wanted to share with you something that I think you'll like. It's called Shorpy, and it's an ever-growing collection of high resolution scans of archival photos, generally from around 1900 to 1950 but going back as far as the American Civil War and as far forward as the nineteen eighties (though rarely over the sixties, it seems).
In direct relation to your post here, I've got the link to Shorpy's gallery of Kodachromes, where you'll likely see some things from Flickr and maybe something new, too: Shorpy Kodachromes
Of course, they have *far* more black and whites than color, and even if you're not really for that sort of thing (which seems unlikely), I suggest you check them out. Shorpy gets updated most every day, so there's almost always something new. Hope you like it.
(also hope you didn't know about it yet!)